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  • 25 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

somewhere, reaching out to make sure the person is encouraged, recognized, and rewarded—not just once, but repeatedly—could be a helpful thing to do.” With this new data on gender stereotyping, Coffman and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

data for themselves and look forward to the new questions they can tackle with it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53265 forthcoming Boston University Law Review Troll Check? A Proposal for Administrative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

candidate; Rachel Mural, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School; Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby, visiting scholars at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Laboratory for Innovation Science; HBS View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

emphasis on personal relationships. "It's taken to a different level in China," says Chua. "Because of the lack of a strong legal infrastructure, people have to rely on those they know very well to get things done."... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 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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  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

conduct laboratory experiments that explore how gender stereotypes shape beliefs about ability of oneself and others in different categories of knowledge. The data reveal two patterns. First, men’s and women’s beliefs about both oneself... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2016
  • Article

Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds
Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Employees; Health Care and Treatment
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  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

How do you reach the person on the street?" says Khanna, who was raised in India and still visits the country several times a year. "The case is a pretty dramatic illustration of the difficulties in doing that, but it also makes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Managing a 401(k) Fund

By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs
Focuses on an individual's decision to participate in his firm's 401(k) plan and how to invest his contributions. Plan participants have a choice of 10 mutual funds with different investment strategies. Includes data from Morningstar on the composition and performance... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Saving; Asset Management; Financial Management; Decision Making; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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Placement - Doctoral

Decrease Corporate Misconduct? Evidence from Field Data Advisors: Eugene F. Soltes (Chair), Krishna G. Palepu , and Aiyesha Dey 2019 Jody Grewal Accounting & Management, 2019 Placement: University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management,... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

helpful to your company.” The study’s findings also underscore the growing possibility of mining “nuanced and granular” social media data to understand how and why employee networks form and what advantages they provide to their larger... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

utilize such data are of considerable interest. Unfortunately, existing methods for analyzing the data in such systems ignore the open-ended exploratory nature of such systems that requires the assessment of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

conditions. While such reviews are published anonymously, Zhang cross-referenced the data with a government database from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that lists the racial percentages of employees at all US companies with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Dec 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does Financial Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim

    What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

    Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details

    • 12 Jun 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

    agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

    points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    The Hidden Costs of Working Multiple Jobs: Implications for Spending Behavior and Wellbeing

    By: Paige Tsai and Ryan W. Buell
    Problem definition: Amidst inflation, rising costs of living, an explosion in remote and gig working opportunities, and an increase in the part-time labor mix in economies around the world, it is becoming evermore commonplace for people to earn labor income... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Employee Behavior; Job Design and Levels; Personal Finance; Well-being; Happiness; Satisfaction; Wages
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    • 03 Oct 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

    leaders most effectively to enter the real world. I can add a personal experience to those that Edmondson cites. In 1990, a colleague, HBS Professor John Kotter, and I began a study of the impact of an organization’s culture on its... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Program

    Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

    a competitive advantage Understand the core fundamentals of how to launch and maintain a platform business that outperforms digital and conventional competitors in the United States, China, and other global markets Identify how to leverage View Details