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  • 26 Jun 2013
  • News

The Power of a ‘Project Beard’ and Other Office Rituals

    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
    • 12 May 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financing Payouts

    Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz
    • July 2014
    • Article

    Convergence of Position Auctions under Myopic Best-Response Dynamics

    By: Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Scott Duke Kominers, Claire Mathieu and Michael Schwarz
    We study the dynamics of multi-round position auctions, considering both the case of exogenous click-through rates and the case in which click-through rates are determined by an endogenous consumer search process. In both contexts, we demonstrate that the dynamic... View Details
    Keywords: Sponsored Search; Advertising; Google; Equilibrium Selection; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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    • 06 Mar 2008
    • News

    Marketing Can Serve Citizens as Well as Consumers

    • Article

    Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

    By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Industry Clusters; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; City; Mining; Mining Industry; United States
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    • 04 Dec 2013
    • News

    Crowdsourcing: Why many heads are better than one

    • 28 Feb 2019
    • News

    Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

    • 2013
    • Article

    Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

    By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton
    This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined... View Details
    Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Psychological Universal; Prosocial Behavior; Well-being; Happiness; Spending; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Canada; Uganda; South Africa; India
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software

    By: Frank Nagle
    As firms increasingly rely on crowdsourced digital goods, understanding their impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of one such good, non-pecuniary (free) open source software (OSS). The results show a... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity; Software
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Are 'Better' Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation

    By: Erin L. Scott, Pian Shu and Roman M. Lubynsky
    This paper studies the uncertainty associated with screening early stage ventures. Using data on 652 ventures in high-growth industries, we examine whether experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and investors can predict the outcomes of early stage ventures by reading... View Details
    Keywords: Commercialization; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Social psychologist Amy Cuddy, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, uses experimental methods to investigate how people judge each other and themselves. Her research suggests that judgments along two critical trait dimensions – warmth/trustworthiness and... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Duane Varan, MediaScience and Murdoch University

    • 01 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

    for people to make mistakes—even big ones—and still make a positive impact in the world. That is, Gino says, “if others are willing to forgive and provide opportunities to move on.” Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Images... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
    • 18 Dec 2013
    • HBS Case

    Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

    to facilitate it," says Professor of Management Practice Clayton S. Rose, who sees in Armstrong's story an ideal vessel for teaching lessons about business ethics and leadership. Along with research associate Noah Fisher, Rose wrote... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

      Matthew Rabin

      Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

      Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department.  His research... View Details

      • January 2022
      • Article

      Global Behaviors, Perceptions, and the Emergence of Social Norms at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic

      By: Lukas Hensel, Marc Witte, Stefano Caria, Thiemo Fetzer, Stefano Fiorin, Friedrich M. Goetz, Margarita Gomez, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Erez Yoeli and Jon M. Jachimowicz
      We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens' and governments' responses at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most respondents reported... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Government Regulation; Social Norms; Health Pandemics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Behavior; Perception; Global Range; Surveys
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      False Signaling and Personal Moral Failings: Two Distinct Pathways to Hypocrisy with Unequal Moral Weight

      By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
      Moral engagement is a key feature of human nature: we hold moral values, condemn those who violate those values, and attempt to adhere to them ourselves. Yet moral engagement can make us appear hypocritical if we fail to behave morally. When does moral engagement risk... View Details
      Keywords: Moral Engagement; Hypocrite; Dishonesty; Moral Values; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Values and Beliefs
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      • 29 Nov 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

      Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam
      • Article

      When Hiring CEOs, Focus on Character

      By: Aiyesha Dey
      The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, has studied the ways in which the lifestyle behaviors of CEOs—in particular, materialism and a propensity for rule breaking—may spell trouble for a company. Her research, which includes looking at... View Details
      Keywords: CEOs; Lifestyle; Risk Management; Recruitment; Ethics
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