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- January 2022
- Article
Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India
By: Reshmaan Hussam, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani and Natalia Rigol
We test the predictions of the rational addiction model, reconceptualized as rational habit formation, in the context of handwashing in rural India. To track handwashing, we design soap dispensers with timed sensors. We test for rational habit formation by informing... View Details
Hussam, Reshmaan, Atonu Rabbani, Giovanni Reggiani, and Natalia Rigol. "Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14, no. 1 (January 2022): 1–41. (Lead Article.)
- July 2021
- Article
Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization
By: John Beshears, Hae Nim Lee, Katherine L. Milkman, Robert Mislavsky and Jessica Wisdom
Habits involve regular, cue-triggered routines. In a field experiment, we tested whether incentivizing exercise routines—paying participants each time they visit the gym within a planned, daily two-hour window—leads to more persistent exercise than offering flexible... View Details
Keywords: Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Healthcare; Exercise; Habit; Routine; Health; Behavior; Decision Making
Beshears, John, Hae Nim Lee, Katherine L. Milkman, Robert Mislavsky, and Jessica Wisdom. "Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 4139–4171.
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
Good Habit Psychological nudges can be a cost-effective way for governments to get citizens to do the right thing. Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research at Harvard Business School takes a unique approach to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- September – October 2000
- Article
Managing away Bad Habits
By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler
Keywords: Management
Waldroop, James, and Timothy Butler. "Managing away Bad Habits." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 5 (September–October 2000). (Anthologized as a chapter in "Harvard Business Review on Finding and Keeping the Best People" and in "Harvard Business Review on Developing Leaders".)
- 14 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Incentive Salience in Habit Formation
- April 2001
- Article
Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators
Keywords: Negotiation
Sebenius, James K. "Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 4 (April 2001): 87–95.
- Article
Research: How Investors' Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices
By: Anastassia Fedyk
Fedyk, Anastassia. "Research: How Investors' Reading Habits Influence Stock Prices." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 2, 2016).
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
cardiovascular exercise and hydration. It’s not that we are uninformed, unable, or lazy. It’s that we’re just not in the habit. “The idea is that habits are equivalent to addictions” With that in mind, the researchers designed a field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- December 1, 2011
- Article
The Four Habits of High-Value Health Care Organizations
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Bohmer, Richard M.J. "The Four Habits of High-Value Health Care Organizations
." New England Journal of Medicine 365, no. 22 (December 1, 2011): 2045–2047.
- 2000
- Book
The Twelve Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back
By: James Waldroop and Timothy Butler
Waldroop, James, and Timothy Butler. The Twelve Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 2000. (Foreign Language Editions: Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese, Arabic, Korean.)
- 16 Jul 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Juul's Mission: Convince 1 Billion Smokers to Switch Habits
- 09 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing
- 2024
- Book
The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions
By: Michael Norton
Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about... View Details
Norton, Michael. The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions. New York: Scribner, 2024.
- 09 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Slim Chance: Drugs Will Reshape the Weight Loss Industry, But Habit Change Might Be Elusive
Year after year, millions of people make a new year’s resolution to lose weight. But because success traditionally depends on making major lifestyle changes, like eating healthier and exercising more, many people fall short of their fitness goals. Yet in 2024, more... View Details
- 2012
- Book
Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way you Work
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and... View Details
Keywords: Time Management; Internet and the Web; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Globalized Firms and Management; Service Industry
Perlow, Leslie A. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way you Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- February 17, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age." The Atlantic (February 17, 2022).
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
The deadline on an important work project is looming, but you keep getting distracted by news stories and silly cat videos online. Even though installing an Internet-blocking app might help you stay focused, you resist the idea, telling yourself you should have the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- February 2022
- Teaching Note
Magrabi: Fulfilling the Vision for the Future
By: John Beshears
Teaching Note for “Magrabi: Fulfilling the Vision for the Future” (Harvard Business School Case No. 920-009). View Details
- August 2020
- Article
Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
By: John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira
Our new model of consumption-based habit generates time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks from loglinear, homoskedastic macroeconomic dynamics. Consumers' first-order condition for the real risk-free bond generates an exactly loglinear consumption Euler equation,... View Details
Keywords: Consumption-based Habit Formation; Consumption Euler Equation; Time-varying Risk Premia; Inflation Dynamics; Bond-stock Correlation; Risk and Uncertainty; Bonds; Macroeconomics
Campbell, John Y., Carolin E. Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira. "Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 8 (August 2020): 3148–3185.
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
Korrawin SUMMING UP Will Digital Experimentation Take Hold in Industies Outside High Tech? The several responses to this month’s column generally were favorable to the notion that experimentation is gaining momentum as an everyday habit... View Details