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Behavioral and Neural Representations en route to Intuitive Action Understanding

By: Leyla Tarhan, Julian De Freitas and Talia Konkle
When we observe another person’s actions, we process many kinds of information—from how their body moves to the intention behind their movements. What kinds of information underlie our intuitive understanding about how similar actions are to each other? To address this... View Details
Keywords: Action Perception; Intuitive Similarity; Multi-arrangement; fMRI; Representational Similarity Analysis; Behavior; Perception
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  • 31 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

negotiators believe they are capable of distinguishing between situations in which they can safely rely on intuition from those that require more careful thought—but often they are wrong. In fact, most of us trust our View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
  • February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Dinr: My First Start-up (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Kristina Maslauskaite
In May 2012, a young employee at Google's London office, Markus Berger, was thinking whether he should quit his job and go after his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Berger's idea was to create Dinr, a company that would offer an upscale food ingredient delivery... View Details
Keywords: Exit Strategy; Startup; Start-up; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Food
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The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton
Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as... View Details
Keywords: Spontaneous Thoughts; Self-Insight; Meaning; Attribution; Judgment And Decision Making; Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

me the key to explaining the disconnect between theory and intuition starts with the particular goal for tax policy assumed in the standard framework. As I said earlier, that goal is to minimize the total sacrifice borne by those who pay... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

goal that requires breaking new ground and is not just retreading work that’s already been done, such as a copycat drug or a technology that’s similar to another one on the market. “There is no new knowledge to produce the results you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

Tufano Abstract Financial innovation has been both praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and highlight the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

dataset, researchers then compared Black and white registration rates before and after the act between counties covered and not covered by the law with different Black population shares. Their intuition was that the law had the potential... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

started. But it faced many questions as the ventures grew and started to win their first customers. How should NBI handle the transition of the venture back to a mainstream division within Intel? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608100-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

also tended to have higher rates of corruption. Tips and bribes can possess striking similarities that may lead to their positive association, the researchers report. "In a sense, both are gifts intended to strengthen social bonds... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

intuitive about the process” Emotions such as satisfaction and elation can be quite rare in negotiation, says Andy Wasynczuk, MBA Class of 1953 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His new teaching note,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

lodging demand. "If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users." The research results could also have broader implications for promoting racial equity at a wide range of... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader earns trust is similar to how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Feb 2019
  • Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

When I started eight years ago looking into what was going on in certain industries, what came out initially was this idea that it was technology, right? We all talked about Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple. But in many industries, both the disrupter and the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail
  • 08 Apr 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

smartphones for the masses to similar other innovative technologies for rural households." Heaven forbid, Kapil Kumar Sopory even suggested that the problem is us. "Each one (of us) has his limited priorities and remains content... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

(Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

"The Immediate Response fleet is their fraud buster." A second Progressive service is called Comparison Quote, said Frei. If a potential customer logs on to the Web site, Progressive will give a quote for Progressive auto insurance as well as View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

This typology is similar to work on how industry membership influences companies. For example, regarding governmental factors, the city of Detroit created an Enterprise Zone to attract local inner-city corporate spending. Cleveland firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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