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Using Fresh Starts to Nudge Increased Retirement Savings
By: John Beshears, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman and Shlomo Benartzi
We conducted a field experiment to study the effect of framing future moments in time as new beginnings (or “fresh starts”). University employees (N=6,082) received mailings with an opportunity to choose between increasing their contributions to a savings plan... View Details
Keywords: Choice Architecture; Randomized Field Experiment; Savings; New Beginning; Fresh Start; Saving; Retirement; Behavior
Beshears, John, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman, and Shlomo Benartzi. "Using Fresh Starts to Nudge Increased Retirement Savings." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 167 (November 2021): 72–87.
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
programs, Beshears says. “There are a lot of researchers who are champing at the bit for ways to test these ideas in the real world, and we always hope that partnerships like these can lead to benefits that both sides can enjoy.” “Using View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- December 2005 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Nest Fresh Eggs (A)
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
Cyd Szymanski's cage-free egg business was threatened by large caged-hen companies that saw new profit potential in the industry she had helped build. Szymanski had based her company, Nest Fresh Eggs, on a strong personal belief that people deserved healthier... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
Amabile, Teresa M., and Victoria Winston. "Nest Fresh Eggs (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-056, December 2005. (Revised October 2006.)
- 04 May 2021
- News
A Return to the Office Is a Great Chance to Make a Fresh Start
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
doing those things and operating well, then you can start making the changes that are visible to consumers. You know, now you can start rolling out a new menu. Now you can View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- News
A fresh bite of the Apple
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Fresh Approach to Urban Farming
problem of sustainable food using business. “Singapore imports 90 percent of its food. By the time it gets to Singapore, it’s degraded, it’s expensive, its quality is terrible, and I won’t even start on the impact on the environment of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2021
- News
Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning
or to spot- and hand-clean garments before they go into the dry-cleaning process. “Most cleaners don’t do that,” he says. “That kind of detail isn’t cheap. A laundered shirt that might cost 99 cents to clean at a competitor starts around... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
former state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria and founder at PPB Advisory, started SecondBite 10 years ago, reusing food had just become legalized. Today, the nonprofit has 800 volunteers serving 200 agencies in even the most... View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
students just those skills. When Kerr started drafting a syllabus for the course, he knew fresh business cases were needed—much of the academic research and course materials on global entrepreneurship he... View Details
- 05 Sep 2016
- News
3 Reasons Why Trump Needs to Start an Advertising Blitz
- 07 Jun 2014
- Video
Marius Andersen - Making A Difference
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
biggest customer in the world; on the other hand, 90 out of 100 VCs would say they don't back business models that sell to government," says Weiss. "Though that's starting to change as startups and government are View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
maciek905 Started in 2011, the Autism at Work program grew from what was a side project by the head of SAP Labs in India into a companywide effort to have 1 percent of its workforce comprised of individuals with ASD. V. R. Ferose, then... View Details
- 05 Jan 2020
- News
In a Burger World, Can Sweetgreen Scale Up?
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Post article, a mindset shift has occurred among owners and general managers responsible for hiring coaches: They are starting to embrace innovative offensive tactics, and to empower head coaches who can implement them. “For years,”... View Details
- December 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
BASF: Co-Creating Innovation (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In 2016, BASF's chief executive officer and chief technology officer reflected on the co-creation innovation program started almost 18 months ago as part of BASF's 150th anniversary celebration. Five hundred project ideas had been created, of which 100 had already... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Knowledge Sharing; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "BASF: Co-Creating Innovation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 517-073, December 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
- May 2009 (Revised November 2010)
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Depreciation at Delta Air Lines: The "Fresh Start"
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
In estimating depreciation for accounting purposes, Delta Air Lines has changed its assumptions about aircraft lifespan and residual values four times in the last thirty years or so. In the most recent changes, Delta adopted fair value accounting as part of its fresh... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Policies; Accounting Procedures; Depreciation; Bankruptcy; Cost Accounting; Financial Reporting; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy; Air Transportation Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. Depreciation at Delta Air Lines: The "Fresh Start". Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-013, May 2009. (Revised November 2010.)
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
have to live and fulfill certain obligations to others, but they're also intense experience junkies. When members started to drift off to work on these piecework deals, they stopped having the kind of preparation experiences that they... View Details
- 22 Jun 2022
- Book
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
fresh new language so that you can explain, both to yourself and to others, what is occurring for you within each of the Four Element arenas. This movement from access to implicit knowledge to finding new language for what is implicit is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman