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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Incorrect beliefs are easier to overcome than an ingrained lack of trust. However, as the researchers later demonstrate, even that remedy may prove hard to achieve. Dylan Minor, a visiting assistant professor of business administration in... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
very rational view of people, and workers were almost considered like widgets," says Assistant Professor Ian Larkin, a member of the NOM Unit. His experimental research suggests that social comparisons are a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
high. But when meeting customer demand is bad for society at large, then competition has a flip side," says Victor Bennett, an assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, who cowrote the paper with Lamar Pierce of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
public service, because it makes this data, most of which exist in archival databases of the EPA, much more readily accessible," says Michael Toffel, an expert on industry self-regulation and an assistant professor in the Technology... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
government, the different agencies, and ultimately the suppliers,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jonas Heese, one of the study’s authors. “What we document, at a very high level, is that while allegations can shake that... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
Assistant Professor of marketing Doug J. Chung. Oddly, little academic research has been done on the subject. And even some BC administrators would rather credit educational excellence than a gridiron miracle for its popularity among... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
dishonesty as morally acceptable and thus feel less guilty about benefiting from cheating. We discuss the implications of these results for collaborations in the social realm. License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
home removes the usual social signals about when to eat or drink. Don’t rely on feeling hungry or thirsty! Put meals and hydration times on your to-do list or set alarms if necessary. One of us recently witnessed a colleague pass out from... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
opting for the short-term benefits in spite of the risks?” "There is no doubt the transactions were very risky, as interest rates on these loans frequently exceeded 20 percent," says Boris Vallée, an assistant professor in the Finance... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
current model is artificial and static, and far removed from everyday social interaction," says Jeana H. Frost, who along with Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely is taking an academic look at online dating and how it can be improved.... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
better for longer-term habit formation.” Beshears conducted the study with Hae Nim Lee, a former doctoral student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; Wharton professor Katherine L. Milkman; Robert Mislavsky, an View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
raising instinctive fears of bodysnatchers looking for a quick payday. It's just these kinds of gray zones that HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby likes to research, areas where questions of legitimacy and moral beliefs are raised.... View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
used by contract workers to obtain stretchwork. O'Mahony is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School while Bechky is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Innovation? Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Would you be suspicious of employees who drew a curtain around themselves? What if you knew the curtain was specifically to block your prying managerial eyes? Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. Purchase the note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308111 Shaklee Corporation:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace