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The Critical Role of Second-order Normative Beliefs in Predicting Energy Conservation

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Oliver P. Hauser, Julia D. O'Brien, Erin Sherman and Adam D. Galinsky
Sustaining large-scale public goods requires individuals to make environmentally friendly decisions today to benefit future generations. Recent research suggests that second-order normative beliefs are more powerful predictors of behaviour than first-order personal... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Household; Behavior; Values and Beliefs; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

giving, Scott’s approach suggested an impatience to give away her wealth, a belief in giving as a way to empower the good works of others, and an unusual willingness to cede control. “Scott has not finished her giving, but with more than... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

characters, and its resolution was not really satisfying, given that the Czech public ended up paying (literally) for the weakness of their country's property and contract laws. How did you become interested in this story, and what... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the lenses of sociology and public policy. HBS professor Clayton... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

in the ways they do business. Moreover, hub firms themselves must do a better job leading responsibly for the good of all, not just creating and capturing value but doing more to sustain other players in the ecosystem. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2023
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

What books are HBS faculty members reading this summer—and are certain publications especially meaningful to them? Turns out, faculty are interested in a variety of topics, everything from exploring spirituality and confronting climate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

File-Sharing and Copyright

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Koleman Strumpf; Technology; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

By: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato
We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
Keywords: Stock Market; Financial Markets; Business Earnings; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 2007
  • Book

America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Policy; Leadership; Civil Society or Community; Cooperation; United States
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  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

Editor's note: It has been more than a decade since the publication of The Innovator's Dilemma, in which Clayton M. Christensen introduced the idea of disruptive technologies—those unexpected products and services that shake up the market... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 16 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may be strong or weak. Strong complements are specific and unique goods that have no value (or greatly diminished... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders

Keywords: by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman & Max H. Bazerman; Food & Beverage
  • 26 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 26

workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova
Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crime and Corruption; Local Range; Laws and Statutes; Law Enforcement; Gender; Power and Influence; Public Administration Industry; India
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  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

in talent clusters—a tactic Vodafone uses effectively. These three options aren’t mutually exclusive. Given the need to stay in touch with multiple clusters, companies may want to try them all. Each one involves substantial risks that executives must manage. But... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2019
  • Chapter

A Claim to Own Productive Property

By: Nien-hê Hsieh
BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details
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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

social networks in the form of school ties—bonds formed based on attendance at a common educational institution—helped equity analysts outperform on stock recommendations when the analysts enjoyed an educational link with a company's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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