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- November 26, 2019
- Article
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was...
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Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 48 (November 26, 2019).
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
literature in economics on why firms tend not to cut people’s pay,” says Stanton, an applied economist who is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “We can actually measure the consequences.” A ‘natural...
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by Rachel Layne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Publications 2006 Harvard Business Review Press Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics By: Davenport, Thomas H., and Jinho Kim Abstract—Managers today need to be able to analyze and make sense of data. They need to be conversant...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation
- 2010
- Working Paper
Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)
By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard
There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
history of right to wipe out one wrong. A company will have to be on the right side of trust again and again,” Sucher says. Lost trust often has financial consequences. An Economist magazine analysis of Volkswagen, Wells Fargo, and six...
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by Lane Lambert
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists and assistant professors at Harvard...
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- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
you they would pay more than they’re actually willing to pay. They say they would choose something that they don’t actually choose in practice,” says James Brand, an economist for Microsoft, who cowrote the working paper with Israeli and...
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by Kristen Senz
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
poor suckers tomorrow.” Related Reading: People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer...
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- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
behavioral economists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, is a way of changing the environment in which decisions are made without meaningfully changing financial incentives. “If you take a particular policy objective as a given, nudges...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
"Typically, most economists would tend to assume that these prices would be passed on relatively quickly at the consumer level. That didn’t happen.” To gauge the effects of the tariffs since the Trump Administration first imposed...
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by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jul 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”
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by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
by Nobel-prize winner in economics George Akerlof and economist Robert Sheeler of "irrational exuberance" fame. These authors cite the importance of what John Maynard Keynes once referred to as "animal spirits" in...
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
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by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
- 17 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
consequences like discrimination." A 2015 study by Luca and colleagues Benjamin Edelman, now an economist at Microsoft, and Dan Svirsky, an economist at Uber, used booking requests by 20 mock Airbnb...
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- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
close to real time. Although the study helps identify where gentrification is occurring, it’s unclear what’s causing what. “It could be that people see a Starbucks coming in and say, ‘This is a neighborhood we should move into,’” says Glaeser, an urban View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
readily be reclaimed by investors in the firm who lost money." In a new research paper, coauthored with World Bank economists Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper, Cole explores how various performance incentives affect lending decisions...
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- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
for policy choices.” Kerr, the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, has researched the economic effects of global migration of workers for more than a decade, sometimes partnering with his wife, Sari Pekkala Kerr, an View Details