Behavioral Decision Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

research not only confirms change is possible, but outlines ways to make new behaviors stick. Here is research out of Harvard Business School that explores the latest thinking... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2013
First Look

Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

still time to register; interested alumnae can find details at the HBS Women’s Association website. Connecticut Club Explores Behavioral Economics with HBS Professor John Beshears The HBS Club of Connecticut hosted HBS Professor John... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie

by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron, and Katherine Shonk (Basic Books) In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie": Six Barriers to Effective Government, authors Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Katherine Shonk, an HBS View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

students will work on-site with a nonprofit or government client in Boston, New York, or Washington, DC, to analyze a problem and develop recommendations based on behavioral decision View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

Tried and Tested

imbalanced gender dynamics around them. Now, as experimental economists, their research is helping define the complex factors that contribute to the workplace gender gap—and sparking ideas about how to mitigate it. Here, they talk about... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Dec 2003
News

The Next Big Thing

research and commercialization of biotechnology and biomedicine, the life sciences’ core activities? And what steps must be taken to maintain preeminence? In a keynote presentation at a September “Massachusetts Life Sciences Summit,” HBS... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

15 Oct 2019
News

In Pursuit of Academia

later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes.... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Driven

world and of ourselves; and the drive to defend ourselves, our loved ones, our beliefs, and our resources from harm. The authors' findings are based on their collective seventy years of research on human View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

Kahneman's diagnosis, but not his remedy Whether the decision is to be made by an individual, a team, or 'the bureaucracy', I would say that all would be well served by the discipline imposed by adherence to a rational process (which)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Student-Profile

Ryann Noe

Economics looks at the architecture and mechanics of systems, and English provides the stories of the people who populate those systems. Similarly, my PhD program sits at the crossroads of management and sociology.” Ryann says that she was drawn to Harvard’s... View Details

21 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

shortcuts and heuristics, and therefore they're susceptible to biases and mistakes. The implication is that if maybe they thought more, they'd do better. "And then there's this whole stream of research about ways in which you should... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2013
News

To Market, to Market

and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. "By increasing the collaborative efforts between HBS and Harvard's scientific community, we will empower the next generation of life science entrepreneurs and provide a further... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Aug 2001
News

Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

while for those in the industry, it is virtually synonymous with Goldberg himself. Recognized as the father of research and scholarship in the field, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of 23 books, more than 100 articles, and some... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Scientific Research and Development Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

Student-Profile

Aurora Turek

As an undergraduate in psychology at the University of Michigan, Aurora Turek (she/her) became interested in the ways that psychology can be applied to the workplace. This interest led her to a research assistantship at the Ross View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic factors, such as what information is... View Details

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended B. The following research... View Details