Publications

03 Jun 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Memory and Representativeness

Keywords: by Pedro Bordalo, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, Frederik Schwerter, and Andrei Shleifer

Awards

Crowell Memorial Prize

By: George Serafeim

Winner of the 2021 Richard A. Crowell Memorial Award, First Prize, from PanAgora Asset Management’s Quantitative Research Institute for his paper with Aaron Yoon, “Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement." View Details

2011
Working Paper

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai

Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare

Article

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

By: F. Gino and S. Desai

Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Research; Emotions; Relationships; Judgments

08 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Sreedhari D. Desai

15 Feb 2019
News

Good Memories

28 May 2021
Blog Post

Taking Measure on Memorial Day

On Memorial Day 2010, LTC Jamie Leonard, the most senior female U.S. military officer to be killed in combat, penned a compelling piece for her local paper titled “A soldier’s view on Memorial Day.”... View Details

08 Sep 2020
News

The 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize

Article

Memory and Representativeness

By: Pedro Bordalo, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, Frederik Schwerter and Andrei Shleifer

We explore the idea that judgment by representativeness reflects the workings of episodic memory, especially interference. In a new laboratory experiment on cued recall, participants are shown two groups of images with different distributions of colors. We find that i)... View Details

Keywords: Cued Recall; Interference; Similarity; Probabilistic Judgments; Heuristics And Biases

June 2013
Case

Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heide Abelli

Mitchell Memorial Hospital is a 750-bed regional academic medical center in Ohio. Andy Prescott, Chief of the Cardiovascular Center, is reviewing the performance evaluations of his star vascular surgeon Ron Ventura. The evaluations, the result of a 360-degree... View Details

Keywords: Performance Expectations; Conflict Management; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Resignation and Termination; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Ohio

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2022
Working Paper

Stories, Statistics and Memory

By: Thomas Graeber, Christopher Roth and Florian Zimmermann

For most decisions, we rely on information encountered over the course of days, months or years. We consume this information in various forms, including abstract summaries of multiple data points – statistics – and contextualized anecdotes about individual instances... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Types; Media; Cognition and Thinking

May 31, 2016
Article

Memories of Unethical Actions Become Obfuscated over Time

By: Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino

Despite our optimistic belief that we would behave honestly when facing the temptation to act unethically, we often cross ethical boundaries. This paper explores one possibility for why people engage in unethical behavior over time by suggesting that memory for their... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Cognition and Thinking

September 1980
Case

Roger Williams Memorial Hospital

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Health Industry

25 May 2016
Blog Post

Favorite Memories from HBS

major changes about to come, I keep thinking about some of the happiest moments from the last two years. Many of these memories involve my HBS friends. I came to HBS filled with the same uncertainty that possibly everybody feels, but... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Down the Memory Chute

Illustrations by Greg Clarke Recent alumni may not believe it, but there was a time when it was the Written Word — more so than cold calls or attacks of classroom amnesia — that struck fear in the hearts of HBS students. Every two weeks, authorial dread would descend... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

January 1986 (Revised October 1990)
Case

Intel Bubble Memory (A)

10 Sep 2008
News

Thanks for the Memories

If you haven’t already taken a look at the HBS Institutional Memory Web site, don’t miss it: http://institutionalmemory.hbs.edu/. Since it was launched in February in conjunction with the School’s centennial celebration, the site has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

July 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Background Note

Down General Management Memory Lane

By: Ashish Nanda

Offered at the end of a twenty-five session course on general management, this note reviews the course and reflects on major parts of learning. View Details

Keywords: Management