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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
literature on environmental economics. Dr. Porter also developed a body of work on the role of corporations in society. His ideas have changed the way companies approach philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. His 2011 paper...
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- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
try to broaden the applicant pool, the study holds clues for how immigrants can best contribute to their new economies. “This group was allowed to work in the United States legally upon arrival, which differs from settings where we see...
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by Rachel Layne
- 2024
- Working Paper
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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Berk, Sarah Holmes, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi, and David Laibson. "Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32074, January 2024.
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
We’ve long known that organizations require so-called flexible leaders to respond to rapid market fluctuations; the last couple of years have only emphasized that necessity. The environment we operate in—shaped by the pandemic, social...
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by Hise Gibson
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
contributions to HBCUs. If you haven’t supported any yet, establish an HBCU as a target recruiting school that receives the same funding and headcount as other target schools. Finally, companies must also advocate with local, state, and...
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- August 2021
- Article
Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News
By: Kate Barasz and Serena Hagerty
Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the research...
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Decision Avoidance;
Difficult Decisions;
Judgment And Decision Making;
Medical Decision-making;
Decision Making;
Behavior
Barasz, Kate, and Serena Hagerty. "Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 2 (August 2021): 270–288.
- 10 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back
If you’re a woman in the workplace, chances are your boss and colleagues expect you to be nicer than your male peers, new research suggests. And that perception could contribute to differences in which jobs you are hired for, which tasks...
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by Shalene Gupta
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address market should discourage subdividing IP address blocks more than necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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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.
- Summer 2015
- Article
Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study incentives to invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the platform owner....
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes. "Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 306–324.
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
social media. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist.” In a recent paper, Lakshmi Ramarajan, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and Erin Reid, a professor at McMaster...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- Research Summary
Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries
Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details
- April 2019
- Article
Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence
By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze...
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Field Experiment;
Innovation;
Contest;
Incentives;
Free-rider Problem;
Healthcare Organizations;
Employees;
Motivation and Incentives;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Performance Improvement;
Perspective
Blasco, Andrea, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. "Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 160 (April 2019): 214–229.
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time-inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Japan - Global
Japan, students were involved in three types of activities: 1) team-based consulting projects for startup companies in Tokyo; 2) group activities to meet local entrepreneurs in the Tohoku region to learn about and contribute to the...
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- 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
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
and introspection because many people get into leadership roles in response to their ego needs. It enables them to transition from seeking external gratification to finding internal satisfaction by making meaningful contributions through...
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by Bill George
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
It’s a philosophical debate as old as time: What is the secret to leading a meaningful life? For many, the question gained new urgency after years of social distancing and upheaval during the COVID-19 pandemic. After surviving a public...
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by Shalene Gupta
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
biased policing, have contributed to this trend. For Miller’s parents, money was tight, but their small row house in West Philadelphia was a happy, loving, and supportive home for Larry and his seven siblings. In elementary school, Miller...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
By: Tsedal Beyene, Pamela J. Hinds and Catherine Durnell Cramton
In an ethnographic study comprised of interviews and concurrent observations of 145 globally distributed members of nine project teams of an organization, we found that uneven proficiency in English, the lingua franca, disrupted collaboration for both native and...
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Spoken Communication;
Interpersonal Communication;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Emotions;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Beyene, Tsedal, Pamela J. Hinds, and Catherine Durnell Cramton. "Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-138, June 2009.