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  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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The focus of Professor Gross’ research agenda is U.S. technological innovation, innovation policy, and the effects of technological change on economic activity. He is also interested in learning about what drives individual creative behavior. Methodologically, he is... View Details
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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

professor Noel Maurer and economic historian Carlos Yu discuss the canal's complicated economic and political history—including the first proposals dating back to 1529, the massive cost overruns associated... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 21 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research

Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • August 2019 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart

By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan
Launching its first products in the fall of 2016 in New York, insurtech startup Lemonade was on a mission to disrupt the insurance market by using AI and behavioral economics principles. The company offered renters, homeowners, and condo insurance and mainly targeted... View Details
Keywords: AI; Business Startups; Insurance; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Disruption; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Decision Making; Insurance Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability

Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent preference for smaller menus can be explained by choosers' behavioral biases or informational limitations. These explanations imply that absent behavioral or informational... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Size; Quality
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  • June 2008
  • Article

How Are Preferences Revealed?

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Microeconomics
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  • 08 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
  • April 2022
  • Article

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into a major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Corruption; Foreign Direct Investment; Political Economy; State-owned Enterprises; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment

By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’ economic... View Details
Keywords: Outward Investment; Capital Controls; Investment; Global Range; Capital; Globalization; Policy; Government and Politics; China
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeter’s Plea: Rediscovering History and Relevance in the Study of Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dan Wadhwani

    David A. Moss

    David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

    Keywords: banking; credit card; federal government; financial services; health care; insurance industry; state government
    • December 2004 (Revised December 2005)
    • Case

    Nectar: Making Loyalty Pay

    By: John A. Deighton
    Loyalty Management UK (LMUK) manages British supermarket chain Sainsbury's frequent-shopper card program, called Nectar. LMUK uses Sainsbury's sponsorship as the magnet to attract other retailers into a profitable, multisponsor loyalty network. Examines the economics... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Marketing Strategy; Networks; Marketing Channels; Advertising Campaigns; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Great Britain
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    • 28 Jun 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning

    Keywords: by Santiago Kraiselburd & Noel Watson
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    Chris Argyris (1923–2013)

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    Chris Argyris, a pioneer in the fields of organization development, organizational learning, and action science, passed away on November 16, 2013. Argyris was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 16, 1923, to Greek immigrant parents, and grew up in Irvington, New... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Personal Development and Career
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    • 08 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

    Efforts to restrict women’s sexual behavior date back centuries in virtually every region of the world. Now, the end of Roe v. Wade in the United States has returned such limitations on women to the contemporary spotlight. Yet, the desire... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin

      Summer R. Jackson

      Summer Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher... View Details

      • 05 May 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

      resolved it. Since past behavior is the best indicator of future behavior, the board should ask candidates what concrete steps they took in their prior job to ensure that senior and lower-level managers were conducting the business with... View Details
      Keywords: by Carla Tishler
      • 25 Jul 2023
      • Blog Post

      Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

      business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details