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Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences

By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power... View Details
Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
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  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

Holden Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford, and Daniella Kupor, a doctoral student at Stanford. "It is generally considered a good-natured prosocial thing to tip, but bribing is considered to be antisocial and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

iPhoto Companies continually test ways to incent employees to perform more effectively, often turning to worker-motivation tools such as bonuses, “up or out” employee ranking tournaments, and employee of the month rewards. Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

(MBA 2022) and Christopher Edward Dee (MD 2021). Patrick's research focuses on utilizing real-world behavioral data from smartphones to characterize patient quality of life and to develop adaptive interventions using reinforcement... View Details

    Joseph L. Bower

    JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

    Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing
    • March 2021
    • Article

    The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

    By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein
    The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; GDPR; Interconnection Agreements; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
    We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-defined... View Details
    Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web
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    The Perils of Proactive Churn Prevention Using Plan Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    By: Eva Ascarza, Raghuram Iyengar and Martin Schleicher
    Facing the issue of increasing customer churn, many service firms have begun recommending pricing plans to their customers. One reason behind this type of retention campaign is that customers who subscribe to a plan suitable for them should be less likely to churn... View Details
    Keywords: Churn/retention; Field Experiment; Pricing; Tariff/plan Choice; Targeting; Customer Relationship Management; Price; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership

    By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
    In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety; Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Practice; Gender; Business Processes; Energy Industry
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program

    By: Tomomichi Amano and Hiroshi Ohashi
    In differentiated goods markets with societal implications, quality standards are commonly implemented to avoid the under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in... View Details
    Keywords: Product Differentiation; Energy Efficiency Standards; Ratcheting; Diffusion Of Innovation; Technological Innovation; Competition; Quality; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
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    • 21 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

    leadership style was a critical variable. "On the one hand, the proposition that team leader behavior fosters project success is not surprising," write Edmondson, Bohmer and Pisano. "On the other hand, deeply engrained... View Details
    Keywords: by Hilah Geer
    • December 2008
    • Article

    Style Investing and Institutional Investors

    By: Kenneth A. Froot and Melvyn Teo
    This paper explores institutional investors' trades in stocks grouped by style and the relationship of these trades with equity market returns. It aggregates transactions drawn from a large universe of approximately $6 trillion of institutional funds. To analyze style... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Financial Services Industry
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    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive

    Keywords: Fashion; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Retail
    • 22 Sep 2023
    • News

    Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

    Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

    getting short-term change out of a fear of consequences, only perpetuates long-term fear, which decreases innovation, collaboration, and growth ” On the other hand, Paul argued that, “The ever growing body of neurological research has found that at times fear can lead... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    simplistic assumptions about business behavior also enabled business history to be highly creative and, at times, to exercise a huge impact on management studies more generally, especially strategy and the study of entrepreneurship.... View Details
    • 08 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates

    Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Jeremy C. Stein
    • 04 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short
    • 08 Aug 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

    Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani
    • Research Summary

    War & Peace

    By: Deepak Malhotra
    A second stream of research looks at issues related to conflict resolution in the context of international and ethno-political conflict, and in particular, at the role of negotiation in ending armed conflicts.  I launched a new course at HBS entitled "War & Peace:... View Details