Economic Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

Progress The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Herzlinger was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was eight. She earned a degree in economics from MIT, spent time in Washington as an... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

Brian Kenny: What motivated you to write the case? Why were you interested in it? Thales Teixeira: Some of my research is on the economics of attention and online reviews have amassed a vast amount of attention nowadays. People have... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people adapt their lifestyles and the... View Details

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

behavior and cognition miss. The chapter seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for a turn towards historicism in entrepreneurial studies, which is already partly underway. The authors stress that the path will not be easy, but that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

intranet. The personal behavior of executives reinforces the message. Employees become truly empowered by understanding what the organization wishes to accomplish, and how they can contribute to these accomplishments. This understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

provide services to more than 8,000 children and 6,000 adults living in nearly a 100-block area. Youth Villages, founded in 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee, serves emotionally and behaviorally troubled children and their families and is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

life; move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential; discover the one thing that influences View Details

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

point higher fee relative to the notional invested for selling the dominated bond on average. I develop and estimate a broker intermediated search model that rationalizes this behavior and quantifies the distortions in these markets. In... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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