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  • October 2012
  • Article

The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo

By: Gabrielle S. Adams, Francis J. Flynn and Michael I. Norton
Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that the original givers would be more offended than givers reported feeling, to such an extent that... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Attitudes; Behavior; Research
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  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

make when disposing of things they no longer want — and change those decisions for the better. Research focus Currently, municipal waste management companies provide limited options for disposal: a... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Light Years Ahead

faculty. Just two years into his HBS career, Light won the 1972 Excellence in Teaching award for his work in the first-year MBA course on Managerial Economics, which, he points out, drew on the faculty’s research in View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

the wide range of motivational factors that drive human behavior in an organizational context, including pay, perquisites, promotions, opportunities for skill development, social approval, fairness, stress, emotional states, autonomy,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Faculty Books

Research Foundation edited by Laura Morgan Roberts and Jane E. Dutton (Psychology Press) In today’s new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is an important challenge that requires a new... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Predictable Surprises

and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in our long-term best interest, regardless of how popular those... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details
Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design
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  • 20 Dec 2018
  • News

Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni

Clubs News Clubs News At the request of the HBS Club of London, the Baker Library presented a live webinar on December 5 to remind alumni of their lifetime access to the preeminent business research library. “The webinar covered remote... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

and politicians on its most popular shows. Fox News Channel had spread rapidly by the 2000 presidential election, its expansion fueled by the wealth accrued by Murdoch and his wildly successful media empire. The speed and breadth of this growth provided economic View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

products to have adverse events reports. These data may inform proposals for review of high-risk devices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52136 in press Organizational Behavior and Human View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • November 1994
  • Case

Pilkington Float Glass--1955

By: Kim B. Clark
The case examines the development of the float glass process at Pilkington in the mid-1950s. Pilkington has pursued the development of a radically new process for flat glass production, but has experienced serious problems at each stage of development. The senior... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Research and Development; Commercialization; Technology
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  • 31 Oct 2006
  • HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics
  • 2022
  • Article

Which Explanation Should I Choose? A Function Approximation Perspective to Characterizing Post hoc Explanations

By: Tessa Han, Suraj Srinivas and Himabindu Lakkaraju
A critical problem in the field of post hoc explainability is the lack of a common foundational goal among methods. For example, some methods are motivated by function approximation, some by game theoretic notions, and some by obtaining clean visualizations. This... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Decision Choices and Conditions; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • Article

Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me

By: Max Bazerman
Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the field of negotiation, and he transformed my career. This brief article provides a recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Decision Making; Analysis; Game Theory; Personal Development and Career
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  • Article

On Market Timing and Investment Performance Part II: Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills

By: Robert C. Merton and Roy D. Henriksson
Keywords: Investment; Performance; Mathematical Methods; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607064 Ascent Media Group (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 607-080 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607080 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

New Releases

the social environment on creative motivation and behavior in a variety of contexts, including the organization. From an ongoing multiyear research project into the nature of creativity and how social... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Excitement Building for HBS Global Conference in Chicago

care, and creativity will draw on the expertise of HBS faculty and a distinguished group of practitioners noted for their entrepreneurial successes. "Recent research has shown that a large percentage of our alumni describe themselves as... View Details