Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

destructive behaviors such as cutting, excessive use of alcohol, taking drugs and suicide attempts. These patients are very difficult to treat and TBC has developed programs... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

employees, how to think about issues like strategy and firm governance, and how to address change. They gain new tools to employ in making View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

firm occupies a lower-level service niche. Consider Sheraton Hotels. In a market where Comfort Inn is a competitor, Sheraton might be the high-service option. But in another market Sheraton might be up against Ritz and Four Seasons, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

first stated mission was to educate leaders who “make a decent profit—decently.” By the early 1990s, the mission was articulated as “educating leaders who make a difference in the world.” What it means to educate leaders has evolved over... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2009
News

My Real Career

asset value. We discussed the triumphs and tragedies of raising children and how difficult it really is to make decisions amid a maelstrom of... View Details

Keywords: Liesl Pike Moldow; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

experiments, are published in a new paper, When to Sign on the Dotted Line? Signing First Makes Ethics Salient and Decreases Dishonest Self-Reports, written by Lisa L. Shu, Francesca Gino, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the new markets of the world. How do you View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

09 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

"Bridge" program, a comprehensive approach to helping employees find new employment opportunities and to replacing jobs in communities where Nokia had been a major employer. The case challenges students to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

weakening both consumer confidence and the consumer spending—much of it on credit—that has been buoying the U.S. economy. Companies should bear eight factors in mind when making their marketing plans for... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

2011
Chapter

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

We use an experiment to estimate the effect of the SEC's Summary Prospectus, which simplifies mutual fund disclosure. Our subjects chose an equity portfolio and a bond portfolio. Subjects received either statutory prospectuses or Summary Prospectuses. We find no... View Details

Keywords: Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

weaknesses, and motivation is critical to making the right decisions. Armed with awareness, founders will be better equipped to anticipate and respond to the many View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

meaninglessness, uncertainty, and boredom. These negative psychological states increase nostalgia because nostalgia is restorative. After conducting dozens of studies using diverse methods ranging from qualitative text analysis,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Dec 2016
News

Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time

Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Shane Greenstein (photo by Russ Campbell) Understanding how people spend their time online is essential for any organization hoping to capture and keep consumer eyeballs—yet what we know about... View Details

23 Mar 2023
News

Becoming More Collaborative — When You Like to Be in Control

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

their meaningful work? As long as I’ve got breath and a functioning brain, I can continue my meaningful work—my research and writing—in some way. But the academic profession is unusual in that respect. I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

rentals, their "dynamic inconsistency" is attenuated. We interpret our results as evidence that myopia has a meaningful impact on decisions in the field and that people learn about their myopia... View Details