Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

the most popular items (e.g., bread, milk) in the furthest possible place from the entrance; that shopping malls seem designed to make sure you get lost at every single visit; and that popular magazines... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

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

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

of environmental toxins are powerful, still somewhat mysterious influences on our health. Simple tests that make those tendencies more transparent will result in basic behavioral changes View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 May 1998
News

Necessary Art of Persuasion

Keywords: Jay A. Conger

01 Dec 2020
News

Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

Goodness, draws on research from the fields of philosophy, psychology, behavioral research, and the concepts of effective altruism to outline a set of actions that we can embark on immediately to View Details

03 Nov 2020
News

One Paramount Priority

to citizenship for dreamers, preserving Obamacare with a public option, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and the right to abortion, recognizing that the decision would be excruciating. “The majority are just... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2019
News

Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy

remodeled its franchise pub business. “It was around the time of the big recession, and our business partners were struggling to make ends meet,” he says. To help out, H&W dropped its rent View Details

Keywords: Leah Flickinger; manufacturing; craft beer; leadership; management; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract Unethical View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2025
News

Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

I can truly feel the power of how generations of HBS alums in Hong Kong have built a strong foundation on which HBSAHK stands today,” says Chow. “Our club charges no membership fees, and everyone is so generous in volunteering their time,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

has supply chain management become such a hot topic in recent years? Shapiro: Changes in five factors are largely responsible for the increased attention. I'll quickly list them and then talk about each. Information technology Visibility... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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

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

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

several years while fellow billionaire Warren Buffett paid $1.8 million in taxes for 2015. “The decision to accelerate that dividend was driven in large part by the executives’ preferences” The issue is not that Trump knew about tax... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

Medicine (RITM), and used the Filinvest Tent as one of the mega-quarantine centers. Filinvest Development Corporation’s (FDC) most important project thus far was making data available to the country’s key... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2008
News

Smartphones Get Smarter

When Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new licensing deal for Microsoft software that makes Apple’s iPhone more attractive to businesspeople, venture capitalist John Doerr (MBA ’76) of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers was also on hand, the... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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

29 May 2017
Blog Post

The Diverse Community at HBS

Before I came to HBS, I worked at Disney in a consumer insights role with the Corporate Brand Development and Studio Marketing teams. Tracking evolving consumer behaviors in entertainment was part of my job... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

proposal to analyze the wreck and film a documentary at the site has been awaiting a decision from a High Court judge in Ireland for the past year. In June, Bemis made an unofficial visit to the wreck,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

interest in the field for both academics and practitioners. Researchers have built upon the work in behavioral decision theory, examining the ways in which negotiators may... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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