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February 2014
Article

Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics

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04 Oct 2021
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How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

2022
Working Paper

Optimal Illiquidity

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and naive present bias. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each witha different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected... View Details

Keywords: Illiquidity; Commitment; Flexibility; Savings; Social Security; Retirement; Government Legislation; Taxation; Saving

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01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

(Jones & Bartlett) With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, sophisticated compliance programs are now mandatory for healthcare organizations, and the penalties for noncompliance are more severe. This... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions

Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their lives. Titled Charting Your... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeb (McGraw-Hill Education) This book offers the latest techniques for knowing customers’ desires View Details

24 Apr 2019
Blog Post

2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys

exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience whether you are a winner of prizes or if you are simply taking advantage of the learning and can apply it later in your career.... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

“Performer” mind-set. Performers can excel in well-defined areas and are rewarded by big companies, but Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

is far cheaper, better informed, and more trustworthy than outreach from a representative less attached to the company. Pay attention to, develop, and reward internal... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

Meredith Weenick. "It was really rewarding to walk into an organization and immediately start using skills I'd learned in school, while also making a direct contribution to HLW's operations View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

told a specific goal," says Chung, noting that 80 percent of firms in the United States use some type of bonus to reward employees. The field experiment spanned six months in the second half of 2013, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

13 Nov 2018
News

What Makes Us Tick? Insights From The 2018 Behavioral Summit

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53787 Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance By:... View Details

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

(certain legal aspects of developing, rewarding and retaining employees, including non-competition agreements, assignments of rights, and employment litigation); View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum (MBA 2004) Grand Central Publishing In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are... View Details

29 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS

comparison between motherhood and entrepreneurship been so poignant for me? For starters, because they are two of the hardest things in life but also the most rewarding (for me motherhood takes the cake but... View Details

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many. That inflicts a huge time penalty on workers, since start-stop-restart cycles are inefficient. Urgent and important things... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 May 2025
Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

market rarely rewarded his efforts, and GE struggled. In Hot Seat, Immelt offers an introspection of his tenure. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. But... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

tell us. Inclusion is related to such things as “voice”—the belief by workers that they are heard—as well as recognition and equal opportunity in rewards and promotions. Harder... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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