Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

saying, you know, there's a behavioral explanation to this as well. We want to make clear: this is not to blame women. Our perspective is that, instead of waiting for the tectonic plates of society to shift,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2007
News

Tribute to Fellowships

Program that sent 45 students, faculty, and staff to New Orleans to assist with recovery efforts over winter break. The School is looking at making faculty-led serviceimmersion programs an option to... View Details

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

01 Mar 2007
News

Ideas That Stick

CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

June 2024
Case

SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'

By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn

This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel... View Details

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Educators

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

managing risk in early-stage ventures. The case also addresses issues such as diversification and options preservation as well as the importance of trust and long-term relationships in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2019
News

Leading Questions

successful.” The assessment trend is also driven by companies that are eager for what Schlatka calls “people data.” Businesses that have long relied on customer numbers and financial reports to make... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Aug 2009
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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

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary." “A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

efficiency and innovation, between maintaining existing businesses and creating new ones, between revenue growth and increased profitability. They must strive to View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 117 (2012) Abstract We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Feb 2002
News

Leading Quietly

inconspicuously and without casualties." Badaracco believes that what drives society are millions of small yet consequential decisions that individuals make on a daily basis.... View Details

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

23 May 2018
News

The Work-Life Balancing Act

In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Jackie Coleman and John Coleman (MBA 2010) write that their decision to start a family “changed nearly everything in our working View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

they need to make decisions about care. The government or a broad consortium of employers could jump-start the collection and dissemination process by agreeing on a standard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Dec 2019
News

Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters

expert committees, which are ubiquitous in science. Yet exactly how those experts deliberate and what factors may influence or bias their determinations has remained a mystery. “To ensure that the decisions... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
News

The Meaning of Ramadi

given, a day that so many of my dead comrades would love to have?” As an infantry officer, when every decision involves life and death, you develop greater patience with small inconveniences, an... View Details

Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

continuous moments of joy was the best way of retaining it. Thus, the most captivating ads in the experiment were those that began by surprising the viewer and then went on to make the viewer smile. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

informed decisions using data and make the system more resilient, limiting the consequences of bad decisions.” One such effort is the Behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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