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  • May 2014
  • Article

Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat

By: Leor M. Hackel, Christine E. Looser and Jay J. Van Bavel
Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the human propensity for mind perception is bound... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 2015
  • Published Proceedings

Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015

By: Andrew J. Hoffman, Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit and Sarah Wilson
What is the role of the academic scholar within the discussions of the global challenges that are relevant to society, such as sustainability, health care, gun control, fiscal policy, and international affairs? How do scholars engage in a world in which knowledge is... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Social Issues; Knowledge Sharing; Communication Strategy
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    Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Estée Lauder, Chanel, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us.... View Details

    • 19 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accounting Information as Political Currency

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Sugata Roychowdhury; Accounting
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies

    By: Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Jérôme Schäfer
    In recent years, voter ID laws and convenience voting have generated heated partisan debates. To shed light on these policy issues, we survey the recent evidence on the institutional determinants and effects of voter turnout and broaden the perspective beyond the most... View Details
    Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Policy
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    • 18 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 18

    their diverse effects on various types of people. We find that personal selling has a stronger effect among partisan voters, while candidates' own advertising is better received by non-partisans. We also find that personal selling accounted for the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

    Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
    • Web

    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    Future of Work Will the technology democratize access to world-class education or increase inequality? Khan's journey from highly informed skeptic to champion of ethical AI. The HBS graduate and Khan Academy founder explains his... View Details
    • 13 Jul 2016
    • HBS Case

    How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

    then shopping for groceries, and so on. Airbnb followed a similar strategy with its rollout, launching in Denver in 2008 to coincide with the lack of hotel space during the Democratic National Convention and adding new cities at times... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
    • 02 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Religion, Politician Identity, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

    Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    Kalda, and Vincent W. Yao of Georgia State University. The paper shines a light on a student debt crisis that Democratic presidential hopefuls have called a national emergency. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed forgiving student loan... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations

    By: Debora L. Spar
    As members of civil society NGOs would seem to have a built-in proclivity towards representation: towards working on behalf of some group of people, or toward some specific goal. Yet in practice such moments of accountability are rare. Unlike other social agents,... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

    lately, Sweden doesn’t seem as traditionally Swedish. The far-right Sweden Democrat party finished second in September’s election, touting an anti-immigrant campaign. The party’s parliamentary votes will influence the nation’s policies in... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Renegotiating NAFTA

    By: Laura Alfaro, Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason and Sarah Jeong
    January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Twenty-five years after the landmark trade pact was signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, considerable debate surrounded it. Trade and trade agreements were a... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Cost vs Benefits; Auto Industry; United States; Mexico; Canada
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    • October 2013
    • Article

    Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption

    By: Clayton M. Christensen, Dina Wang and Derek C. M. van Bever
    Consulting fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional... View Details
    Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consulting Industry
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Small Campaign Donors

    By: Laurent Bouton, Julia Cagé, Edgard Dewitte and Vincent Pons
    In this paper, we study the characteristics and behavior of small donors, and compare them to those of large donors. We first build a novel dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and... View Details
    Keywords: Campaign Finance; Campaign Contributions; Small Donations; ActBlue; WinRed; TV Advertising; Political Elections; Finance; Demographics; Advertising; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 31 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

    democratized both inside and outside of companies. In the past, CEOs and other senior leaders were seen as the legitimate strategic decision-makers because they had more access to data and could decide if and when to share it. With much... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • 2021
    • Article

    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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    Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    reformers, journalists, and photographers brought to national attention poor working conditions experienced by industrial workers. In the ensuing economic climate of the late 1920s and 1930s, many executives came to believe that the foundation of business and of a... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio