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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
(co-authored with Mrinal Sinha, UT Press, 2016). Dr. Hurtado has received the Women of Color Psychologies Award, the American Educational Research Association's SAGE Award for distinguished contributions to gender equity in education... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
psychological safety, and embracing failure and conflict. Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and networks. Organizations learn to solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems, build stronger and more unified... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
violation and distrust, even when the terms of the managers' economic contracts are fulfilled. We examine whether managers whose psychological contracts are breached seek redress by building additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 28, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Be Happy in a Recession
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Be Happy in a Recession." The Atlantic (July 28, 2022).
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Collections Featured Topics Economics and Global Commerce Insights on global economics: debt, trade with China, microfinance, and politics' impact on commerce and growth. Career and Workplace Get expert insights on workplace challenges... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
of motives and identification with groups, norms, and culture. In economics we talked about the role leadership plays in coordination and how economic models can help us understand that. History points us to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
Note 607-074 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607074 Tickle Harvard Business School Case 807-100 Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of a rapidly growing online View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer
behavioral science, specifically, behavioral economics, tries to understand consumers as they actually behave and promote changes in their decision making around those biases. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Leslie John explains principles behind behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
psychological implications of asking managers to focus on dual objectives. Having to advance economic performance and be socially responsible, some argue, destines managers to do neither. Some fear it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development by Bill George and Doug Baker (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Incorporating recent research in psychology and sociology, George and his coauthor explain why a True... View Details
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Valuing Time Over Money Is Associated with Greater Happiness
By: A.V. Whillans, Aaron C. Weidman and Elizabeth W. Dunn
How do the trade-offs that we make about two of our most valuable resources—time and money—shape happiness? While past research has documented the immediate consequences of thinking about time and money, research has not yet examined whether people’s general... View Details
Whillans, A.V., Aaron C. Weidman, and Elizabeth W. Dunn. "Valuing Time Over Money Is Associated with Greater Happiness." Social Psychological & Personality Science 7, no. 3 (April 2016): 213–222.
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong
alleviate it. “In the last 23 years, I have been working in nonprofit and government settings that help with the issues I think are most important: housing, economic development, education. The work that I do now is running Safe Horizon,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS
first day at HBS. My name is Melanie Sperling and I am a first-year student here at HBS. Before attending school, I worked for four years at the One Love Foundation – America’s leader in health relationship education - and graduated with a BA in View Details
- August 2020
- Article
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja and James A. Robinson
Lack of trust in state institutions is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from non-state actors. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Lab-in-the-field Games; Legitimacy; Motivated Reasoning; Non-state Actors; State Capacity; Trust; Conflict and Resolution; Information; Developing Countries and Economies
Acemoglu, Daron, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja, and James A. Robinson. "Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 8 (August 2020): 3090–3147.
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What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments that Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour
By: Ariella S. Kristal and A.V. Whillans
Across five field experiments with employees of a large organization (n = 68,915), we examined whether standard behavioural interventions (“nudges”) successfully reduced single-occupancy vehicle commutes. In Studies 1 and 2, we sent letters and emails with nudges... View Details
Kristal, Ariella S., and A.V. Whillans. "What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments That Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 2 (February 2020): 169–176. (This article was featured on the cover as the lead article.)