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  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

third control group didn't receive text messages.) Surprisingly, the researchers found that weekly follow-up text messages proved to be about 80 percent as effective as in-person meetings—neither in-person meetings nor View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile

By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Decision Making; Interest Rates; Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Global Range; Chile
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  • 02 Oct 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Is Mandatory Nonfinancial Performance Measurement Beneficial?

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Takehisha Kajiwara & Ranjani Krishnan; Health
  • Research Summary

Savings among microentrepreneurs

Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details

  • 01 Aug 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

organizational culture has a significant impact on an index comprised of annual net income growth, annual return on invested capital, and annual growth of stock price. We found that strong cultures can have either significantly positive or negative View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • October 2013
  • Article

With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Attitudes; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 07 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

Keywords: by Andrea Hugill & Jordan Siegel
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we find that product assessments by powerful stakeholders and peer agencies influence product approval and that their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business. The Tug Of Entrepreneurs The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • March 1998
  • Teaching Note

The Job Search Workshop TN

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
An effective catalyst for the job search, this note is an opportunity for students to focus on the "next steps" of their job search. Students are introduced to a model of career decision-making, which frames their discussion and sophisticates their understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Job Search; Personal Development and Career
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  • June 2006 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Jack Carlisle, CIO

An experienced CIO hired to professionalize IT in a growing financial services firm struggles with the turmoil that follows sudden replacement of the company's CEO. Jack Carlisle must assess the changes, both actual and prospective, in an environment in which IT has... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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  • Teaching Interest

Overview

Professor Mukunda teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD.)  This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context... View Details

  • Article

How Real Sales Learning Happens: In the Flow of Work

By: Yuchun Lee, Mark Magnacca and Frank V. Cespedes
Most learning in sales is through peer learning in task-specific contexts, and the effects are cumulative because modeling behavior is a big driver of how salespeople develop. This is very different from the experience in most training seminars, especially if the... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Learning; Training; Performance
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MBA Required Curriculum Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)

By: Rakesh Khurana

This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of:

  • 10 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani & Christoph Riedl; Health
  • May 2024
  • Article

Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries

By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Networks; Investment Return; Business Cycles
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  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

effectiveness of a common educational methodology aimed at these employees. Commonly called “social norms marketing,” the method essentially shows people what their peers are doing to induce them into good... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • December 2014
  • Article

No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Services Delivery

By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack
A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field... View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Non-monetary Rewards; Intrinsic Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Employees; Service Industry; Health Industry
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