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  • 29 Jul 2024
  • News

Revenue Psychology: Exploring the Behavioral Science of Sales Incentives

  • 05 Jan 2021
  • News

Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

  • 08 Dec 2013
  • News

Orbital Sciences Explores Outer Space for Dollars

Keywords: Orbital Sciences; NASA; rockets; Space Research and Technology; Government; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

good.’” To learn more, see Rituals Alleviate Grieving for Lovers, Loved Ones, and Lotteries. And if you have resolved not to obsess over resolutions this year, behavioral science supports you. Are you giving... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2023
  • Podcast

How OPower Uses Behavioral Science & AI to Reduce Energy Demand

In this sixth episode in our series on climate change and artificial intelligence (AI), Paul McDonald, Senior Director, Opower Product Strategy & Marketing at Oracle Energy and Water, discusses how OPower uses behavioral science and AI to help utility customers reduce... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2021
  • News

HBS Club of London: David Halpern on How to Apply Behavioural Science to Behavior

  • 04 Dec 2018
  • News

Spending too much time on your phone? Behavioral science has an app for that

  • 08 Jan 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

assess the impact of this work. Dick Meza said that "it will have to run the gauntlet of peer reviews and further research ." Lorenzo Ferlazzo observed that "the current lack of standardized insights into behavioral stimuli... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

opportunity to work with faculty from both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. Curriculum & Coursework Our program offers two distinct tracks, with research focused either on the micro or macro level. Students... View Details
  • Article

Nudging: Progress to Date and Future Directions

By: John Beshears and Harry Kosowsky
Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made, without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper assesses past empirical research on nudging and provides recommendations for future work in... View Details
Keywords: Nudge; Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making
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  • 19 Sep 2019
  • News

Predicting Human Behaviors

vision, neuroscience, and behavioral science researchers. They had the tools to train computers to think more like humans, but did not yet have an application for the technology. Together the team—including... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 08 Jun 2017
  • News

Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool

  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

Whether you sell widgets, designer fashions, or life-saving drugs, mastering the art and science of better analytics can set you ahead of your competitors, according to HBS professor Ananth Raman and Wharton professor Marshall Fisher.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 2013
  • Book

Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending

By: Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton
If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Spending; Personal Finance
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  • September 1, 2015
  • Article

Should Governments Nudge Us to Make Good Choices?

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Sam McNerney
Keywords: Behavioral Science; Government
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  • February 2021
  • Article

Testing the Waters: Behavior across Participant Pools

By: Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments... View Details
Keywords: Lab Selection; External Validity; Experiments; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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  • 08 Oct 2020
  • News

What Science Tells Us about Time and Happiness with Ashley Whillans

  • 2003
  • Book Review

A Social Science Perspective to Understanding Ethics in Organizations: A Review of Social Influences on Ethical Behavior in Organizations

By: Dolly Chugh and Max Bazerman
Keywords: Perspective; Society; Science; Ethics; Organizations; Behavior; Power and Influence
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  • 2021
  • Article

Nudging the Commute: Using Behaviorally-Informed Interventions to Promote Sustainable Transportation

By: Ashley Whillans, Joseph Sherlock, Jessica Roberts, Shibeal O'Flaherty, Lyndsay Gavin, Holly Dykstra and Michael Daly
Dramatic reductions in carbon emissions must take place immediately. A human-centric method of reducing environmental impacts is to “nudge” employees away from single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs) toward more sustainable commuting options. While an abundance of research... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Science; Transportation Demand Management; Commuting; Single-occupancy Vehicle Commutes; Transportation; Behavior; Change; Environmental Sustainability
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Overview

Associate Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne's research and teaching activities focus on data science, forecasting, project management, and behavioral decision-making. View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Project Management; Forecasting; Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making