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    Magie Cheng

    Mengjie (Magie) Cheng is a Ph.D. student in Marketing at Harvard Business School. She received her B.S. in Finance from Chu Kochen Honors College at Zhejiang University and M.S. in Management Science and... View Details
    • 2012
    • Article

    Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

    By: Kristin Sippl and Henrik Selin
    This article uses a behavioral economics lens to identify the challenges the United Nation's Minamata Convention is likely to face in addressing the problem of mercury pollution from gold mining. View Details
    Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Global Range
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    Gregor Schubert's research focuses mainly on the economics of uncertainty. He investigates the impact of changes in the risk environment on the behavior of workers, firms, voters and policymakers. View Details
    • June 2002 (Revised November 2004)
    • Compilation

    John Maynard Keynes: His Life, Times, and Writings

    By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
    Discusses the life, times, and writings of John Maynard Keynes. Consists of three parts. First, it summarizes Keynes' life by reproducing his 1946 obituary from The Times of London. Second, it recalls the dramatic economic events of the times in which he lived by... View Details
    Keywords: History; Personal Development and Career; Economics; Theory; Macroeconomics
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    How Real Is Hypothetical?: A High-Stakes Test of the Allais Paradox

    By: Uri Gneezy, Yoram Halevy, Brian Hall, Theo Offerman and Jeroen van de Ven
    Researchers in behavioral and experimental economics often argue that only incentive-compatible mechanisms can elicit effort and truthful responses from participants. Others argue that participants make less-biased decisions when the stakes are sufficiently high.... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Behavioral Finance; Economics; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias
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    Professor Ashraf's research applies insights from psychology, sociology, and economics to understand and affect behavior in development. Her current research interests fall into three broad categories: technology adoption, motivation and incentive design, and... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Microfinance; Agriculture; Women's Empowerment
    • 04 Feb 2020
    • News

    How we know that Tesla is a bubble that is going to pop

      Raffaella Sadun

      Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Sadun received her PhD in Economics... View Details

      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference

      By: Scott Duke Kominers, Xiaosheng Mu and Alexander Peysakhovich
      Human information processing is often modeled as costless Bayesian inference. However, research in psychology shows that attention is a computationally costly and potentially limited resource. We study a Bayesian individual for whom computing posterior beliefs is... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Economics
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      • 28 Nov 2017
      • News

      The chance of a bitcoin crash is greater than 80%

      • 12 Aug 2014
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      First Look: August 12

        Publications August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics By: Åstebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Malcolm P. Baker

        Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

        His research is in the... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation

          Yoonjae Shin

          Yoonjae Shin is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His primary interests are labor market, corporate governance, and social inequality. Prior to beginning his PhD, Yoonjae worked in the project team at Seoul National... View Details
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          Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement

          By: Jerry R. Green
          For the past century, economists have used the hypothesis that individual choice is based on rationality in their calculations of individual and collective welfare. The central ideas are that actual market choice reveal underlying preferences, and with a good set of... View Details
          • July 2020
          • Case

          Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics

          By: Steven Rogers, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Alterrell Mills
          The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial opportunities that come from identifying an underserved market, specifically within the Black community... View Details
          Keywords: Brands and Branding; Competition; Customers; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Macroeconomics; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Product Design; Product Development; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Issues; Social Marketing; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Venture Capital; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Advertising Industry; Public Relations Industry; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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          • 19 Jun 2007
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          First Look: June 19, 2007

          also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 2021
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          To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law

          By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
          Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details
          Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning
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          • 2019
          • Working Paper

          Stewardship Codes and Shareholder Voting on Disputed Ballot Measures

          By: Trang T. Nguyen and Charles CY Wang
          This study examines the impact of stewardship codes on investor voting behavior in disputed ballot measures-- where ISS's recommendation differs from management's recommendation-- across nine countries. U.S. institutional investors' voting behavior in adopting country... View Details
          Keywords: Stewardship Codes; Investment; Voting; Behavior
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          • December 2014 (Revised July 2021)
          • Case

          Discovery Limited

          By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Aldo Sesia
          Discovery Ltd. is a South Africa-based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics and data collection to innovate in the health care insurance industry. Its founder Adrian Gore believed that the company's products needed to not... View Details
          Keywords: Shared Value; Health Care; Financial Services; Strategy; Value Creation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; South Africa
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            Jeremy Yang

            Jeremy Yang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Marketing in the MBA required curriculum. He develops data products for... View Details
            Keywords: advertising; media; entertainment; information; consumer products