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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
Marketing Iavor Bojinov Assistant Professor, Technology & Operations Management Alexandra Feldberg Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior Amit Goldenberg Assistant Professor, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Jon Jachimowicz... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
decisions. We review relevant psychology, economic theory and predictions, empirical challenges, empirical evidence, new directions such as behavioral signaling, and open questions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
employees are in limbo between their home and work roles. This unstructured time gives rise to “role ambiguity,” leaving people with the unpleasant feeling of being unsure what they’re expected to do. Sources: The Organization for View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
learning leverages Big Data, giving managers new tools to help unravel complex marketing puzzles and understand consumer behavior like never before. Tomomichi Amano, assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, is... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 117 (2012) Abstract We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas reduces the compassion that individuals extend to others in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
cases Stefan personally wrote, I also am using the BMW Chrysler case that I taught 16 years ago. My experience in the class years ago encouraged me to pursue this adjunct teaching position. —Les Williams (MBA 2005) Back to top “Managing Creativity at Shanghai Tang”... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
learned that graphic warnings led to a drop in sugary drink purchases, they supported the labels in much greater numbers. One question that remains unanswered by the study is whether the warnings spur consumers to change their behavior... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
highlight the need for firms to be mindful of the behavioral implications of making add-ons readily available in the marketplace. Creating Superior Customer Value in a Connected World Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:In Business Network... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
mounted, the stock tanked, people were laid off, and some good employees jumped ship. The platform burned for all but the most complacent. Yet the economic collapse meant there was little or no funding left for new plant equipment, a new... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
the level of new investment. But, in the case of investment centers, Economic Value Added, or EVA, is likely to be the most effective single-period measure because it is designed to encourage only value-increasing investment decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals James Sebenius Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making Joshua Schwartzstein... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
researchers to test and build new theories at a more granular level. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55151 forthcoming American Economic Review Beliefs about Gender By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
on practical economic grounds. You want a strong economy, a strong country, and, if you’re anything like me, a strong stock market. Well, note first that stocks do better under Democratic administrations than Republican. (“You can look it... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
what does the term "big data" actually entail, and how will the insights it yields differ from what managers might generate from traditional analytics? Does Power Corrupt or Enable: Moral Identity, Power and Self-Serving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. In the case of bad View Details
- July 2009
- Article
Bad Riddance or Good Rubbish? Ownership and Not Loss Aversion Causes the Endowment Effect
By: C. K. Morewedge, L. L. Shu, D. T. Gilbert and T. D. Wilson
People typically demand more to relinquish the goods they own than they would be willing to pay to acquire those goods if they didn't already own them (the endowment effect). The standard economic explanation of this phenomenon is that people expect the pain of... View Details
Morewedge, C. K., L. L. Shu, D. T. Gilbert, and T. D. Wilson. "Bad Riddance or Good Rubbish? Ownership and Not Loss Aversion Causes the Endowment Effect." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45, no. 4 (July 2009): 947–951.