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  • March–April 2017
  • Article

Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior

By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details
Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics
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  • Research Summary

A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • May 2000
    • Article

    Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
    This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
    Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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    • June 2013 (Revised November 2022)
    • Exercise

    Competition Simulator Exercise

    By: Eric J. Van den Steen
    In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the nine simulator exercises let students explore horizontal differentiation with and... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Economics; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Mathematical Methods; Analysis
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    Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

    Shunyuan Zhang Marketing Student Research Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations By: Simon Essig Aberg 02 JUN 2025 | Faculty & Research Are ESG... View Details

      Clayton S. Rose

      Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

      Keywords: financial services
      • 08 Nov 2016
      • First Look

      November 8, 2016

      quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Teaching Interest

      Organizational Behavior

      Each of us maintains a set of beliefs and general assumptions about humans and their behavior, and those assumptions form the foundation for our beliefs about what motivates individuals; about how individuals make decisions; and about the ways in which the... View Details

      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Motivation And Incentives; Decision-making; Culture
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development

      By: Christian H.M. Ketels
      This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
      Keywords: Industry Clusters; Development Economics
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        Jerry R. Green

        Jerry R. Green

        David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

        John Leverett Professor in the University

        Harvard University

         

        Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

        Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services

          Robert C. Merton

          Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

          Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
          • 22 Oct 2008
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

          Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services
          • 2022
          • Book

          Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

          By: Caroline M. Elkins
          Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation’s cultural superiority, but what legacy did... View Details
          Keywords: Imperialism; Violence; Colonialism; History; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Race; Policy; United Kingdom
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            Stephen A. Greyser

            Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

            Keywords: sports
            • 10 May 2010
            • Research & Ideas

            What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

            people you would expect to be most active in the field: scholars. "If we look at the leading research universities and at the business schools within them, the topic of leadership has been actually given fairly short shrift,"... View Details
            Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
            • June 2012 (Revised July 2013)
            • Exercise

            Competition Simulator Exercise: Instructions

            By: Eric Van den Steen
            In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the nine simulator exercises let students explore horizontal differentiation with and... View Details
            Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Economics; Strategy; Game Theory
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            • 24 Feb 2016
            • HBS Seminar

            David Brumley of Carnegie Mellon University

            • Web

            Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

            to in-demand occupations—has gained prominence, particularly in response to the rise of new AI-based technologies. This session will explore the feasibility of implementing large-scale reskilling programs within a reasonable time frame, leveraging new View Details
            • Web

            Faculty & Advisors | MBA

            Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Faculty Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Ethel Zimmerman Winer Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy View Details