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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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  • 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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  • 01 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Nora Lamersdorf, and Farzad Saidi; Health

    Sebastian Hillenbrand

    Sebastian Hillenbrand is an Assistant Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum.  

    Sebastian’s research interests are in behavioral and... View Details

      Emily Tedards

      Emily Tedards is a Doctoral Student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School and a Doctoral Fellow for the Reimagining the Economy Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. Emily is interested in interorganizational networks, alliances, and the... View Details

      • Article

      Backlash Against Male Elementary Educators

      By: Corinne A. Moss-Racusin and Elizabeth R. Johnson
      We investigated the existence, nature, and processes underscoring backlash (social and economic penalties) against men who violate gender stereotypes by working in education, and whether backlash is exacerbated by internal (vs. external) behavioral attributions.... View Details
      Keywords: Backlash Theory; Gender Stereotypes; Teaching; Early Childhood Education; Gender
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        Eva J. Sudol

        Eva Sudol is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching Finance 1 in the required curriculum of the MBA program. She is also a Retired Partner at the Capital Group, a global investment management company, where she worked from 1994 – 2023 as an... View Details

        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions

        By: Lisa L. Shu and Max Bazerman
        We explore interventions at the individual level and focus on recognized cognitive barriers from behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias
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        • 28 Apr 2021
        • News

        Get the Message: Reduce Water Use

        • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
        • Teaching Note

        Maritz Automotive

        By: Ashley V. Whillans and Lamar Pierce
        This case focuses on Charlotte Blank, the Chief Behavioral Officer at Maritz, as she tries to assist a major automotive manufacturer (CarCo) with increasing their sales by prepaying monthly bonuses to independently franchised car dealers and clawing them back if the... View Details
        Keywords: Loss-framing; Sales; Performance Improvement; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Theory; Auto Industry
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          Forest L. Reinhardt

          Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

          Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

          Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation
          • 08 Nov 2010
          • News

          Is There an Optimal Rich-Poor Gap?

          • December 1983 (Revised March 1999)
          • Case

          The United States Financial Crisis of 1931

          The behavior of the Federal Reserve System during the early years of the Great Depression has been a topic of considerable controversy. The Fed, it has been argued, pursued a contracting policy, thereby helping to turn what might have been only a brief recession into... View Details
          Keywords: Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; United States
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          • 24 Mar 2010
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

          Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg
          • Article

          Measuring the Effectiveness of Competition in Defense Procurement: A Survey of the Empirical Literature

          By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
          This article surveys the literature that has attempted to measure competition's effects on defense procurement. The focus is on conceptual underpinnings of models rather than technical aspects of estimation procedures. While providing valuable insight, the models are... View Details
          Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Competition; Surveys; Value; Economics; Forecasting and Prediction; Programs; Power and Influence; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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          • 01 Apr 2024
          • In Practice

          Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

          increase has prompted a shift in purchasing habits, with consumers increasingly opting for store-brand items over name brands, favoring discount stores, and reducing purchases of non-essential items. Such behavior is a direct response to... View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products

            Teresa M. Amabile

            Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

              Julie Battilana

              Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

                Lakshmi Ramarajan

                Professor Ramarajan is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.

                She teaches the... View Details

                Keywords: nonprofit industry

                  Adi Sunderam

                  Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

                  Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry