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- 2025
- Chapter
Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts
By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi and David Laibson
We study the introduction of a choice architecture design intended to increase short-term savings among employees at five U.K. firms. Employees were offered the opportunity to opt into a payroll deduction program that auto-deposits funds from each paycheck into a...
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Keywords:
Personal Finance;
Compensation and Benefits;
Well-being;
Behavior;
Investment Funds;
Employees;
United Kingdom
Berk, Sarah Holmes, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi, and David Laibson. "Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts." In The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Lucia A. Reisch and Cass R. Sunstein. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
- 2022
- Article
Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas
By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie
While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Management;
Organizational Culture;
Creativity;
Cognition and Thinking;
Innovation and Invention;
Learning
Calic, Goran, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis, and Sébastien Hélie. "Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas." Knowledge Management Research and Practice 20, no. 5 (2022): 776–791.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Anti-Political-Establishment Citizens: An In-Depth Study from Two Latin American Countries
By: Loreto Cox and Natalia Garbiras-Diaz
Building on citizens’ animosity towards politicians, anti-establishment parties and
candidates have achieved significant electoral success. While recent studies examine
the supply-side, we know little about what drives citizens’ anti-establishment sentiments and how...
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Keywords:
Political Parties;
Political Instability;
Democracy;
Elections;
Electoral Behavior;
Election Outcomes;
Ideology;
Political Elections;
Policy;
Governance;
Government and Politics;
Social Issues;
Society;
Perception;
Crime and Corruption;
Latin America;
South America;
Colombia;
Peru
Cox, Loreto, and Natalia Garbiras-Diaz. "Anti-Political-Establishment Citizens: An In-Depth Study from Two Latin American Countries." Working Paper, July 2024.
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
workplace event to hand out checks, and invite the employees’ peers. Perhaps add a certificate of appreciation along with the check. “People are more likely to contribute posts on Wikipedia when they receive a public certificate of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition to financial support, we add social capital by enhancing the professional development and visibility of executives of color in the...
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- June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Cathy Ross
Describes the conception, development, and implementation of Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first...
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Keywords:
Partners and Partnerships;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business Education;
Gender;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Financial Services Industry;
Education Industry
Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Cathy Ross. "Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 509-042, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- September 2022
- Article
The Limits of Inconspicuous Incentives
By: Leslie K. John, Hayley Blunden, Katherine Milkman, Luca Foschini and Bradford Tuckfield
Managers and policymakers regularly rely on incentives to encourage valued behaviors. While incentives are often successful, there are also notable and surprising examples of their ineffectiveness. Why? We propose a contributing factor may be that they are not...
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John, Leslie K., Hayley Blunden, Katherine Milkman, Luca Foschini, and Bradford Tuckfield. "The Limits of Inconspicuous Incentives." Art. 104180. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 172 (September 2022).
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
sustainable business, social enterprise, or reforestation, including members of the student-led HBS Energy and Environment Club and the Social Enterprise Club. Asian-American Business Association Fellowship...
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- 2022
- Article
The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning
By: Michael Prinzing, Julian De Freitas and Barbara L. Fredrickson
The desire for a meaningful life is ubiquitous, yet the ordinary concept of a meaningful life is poorly understood. Across six experiments (total N = 2,539), we investigated whether third-person attributions of meaning depend on the psychological states an agent...
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Keywords:
Experimental Philosophy;
Folk Theories;
Meaning In Life;
Moral Psychology;
Positive Psychology;
Moral Sensibility;
Satisfaction
Prinzing, Michael, Julian De Freitas, and Barbara L. Fredrickson. "The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning." Journal of Positive Psychology 17, no. 5 (2022): 639–654.
- Web
Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
Ratings ; ESG Reporting ; ESG Disclosure ; Sustainability ; Climate ; Climate Finance ; Climate Risk ; Social Accounting ; Investment ; Governance ; Safety ; Climate Change ; Environmental Sustainability ; Corporate View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach...
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Keywords:
Capitalism;
Justice;
Corporate Purpose;
Shareholder Value Maximization;
Ethical Reciprocity;
Economic Systems;
Business Ventures;
Mission and Purpose;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- January 1999
- Exercise
Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing
Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of...
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Watkins, Michael D. "Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing." Harvard Business School Exercise 899-172, January 1999.
- Article
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Distancing Response to Ethical Dissonance
By: R. Barkan, S. Ayal, F. Gino and D. Ariely
Six studies demonstrate the "pot calling the kettle black" phenomenon whereby people are guilty of the very fault they identify in others. Recalling an undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral...
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Keywords:
Ethical Dissonance;
Cognitive Dissonance;
Moral Judgment;
Impression Management;
Unethical Behavior;
Values and Beliefs;
Moral Sensibility;
Cognition and Thinking;
Research;
Behavior;
Judgments
Barkan, R., S. Ayal, F. Gino, and D. Ariely. "The Pot Calling the Kettle Black: Distancing Response to Ethical Dissonance." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 141, no. 4 (November 2012): 757–773.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use
By: Ariella Kristal and Julian Zlatev
Commitment strategies are effective mechanisms individuals can use to overcome self-control problems. Across seven studies (and three supplemental studies), we explore the negative interpersonal consequences of commitment strategy use. In Study 1, using an incentivized...
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Keywords:
Self-control;
Willpower;
Commitment Strategies;
Goals and Objectives;
Behavior;
Strategy;
Perception
Kristal, Ariella, and Julian Zlatev. "Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-033, November 2021. (Revised January 2023.)
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
financial-statement users increase and contribute significantly toward the country's decision to adopt IFRS. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of IFRS harmonization among countries, and that smaller countries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2013
- Article
Exceptional Boards: Environmental Experience and Positive Deviance from Institutional Norms
By: Judith Walls and Andrew J. Hoffman
This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice positive environmental deviance while others do...
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Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Networks;
Organizational Culture;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Environmental Management
Walls, Judith, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Exceptional Boards: Environmental Experience and Positive Deviance from Institutional Norms." Special Issue on Greening Organizational Behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior 34, no. 2 (February 2013): 253–271.
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
program relative to their peers. Most specifications find weak crowding-in effects or no effect at all for native patenting. Total invention increases with higher admission levels primarily through the direct contributions of ethnic...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
employees frequently leave firms (often before matching contributions from their employer have fully vested), a large percentage of 401(k) balances are withdrawn upon employment separation, and many employees opt out of auto-escalation....
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- June 2008
- Article
How Are Preferences Revealed?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many...
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "How Are Preferences Revealed?" Journal of Public Economics 92, nos. 8-9 (June 2008): 1787–1794.
- 2012
- Book
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Opportunities;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Resource Allocation;
Economic Growth;
Research and Development
Lerner, Josh and Scott Stern, eds. The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited. University of Chicago Press, 2012.