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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Studies 2 and 3 (i.e., childhood memories and impressions formed, respectively). Second, we hypothesize that greater self-insight attributed to thoughts that are (perceived to be) spontaneous leads those thoughts to more potently... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

firms headquartered in high trust regions are more likely to decentralize, with trust accounting for about half of the variation in decentralization in our data. To help identify causal effects, we look within multinational firms, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

structural estimation methods. Our results confirm the belief expressed by industry experts that in the fast-food drive-thru industry, customers trade off price and waiting time. More interestingly, our estimates indicate that consumers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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    Chiu, C-y, Morris, M.W., Hong, Y-y, & Menon, T. (2000).  Motivated cultural cognition: The impact of implicit cultural theories on dispositional attribution varies as a function of Need for Closure.... View Details

    • 17 Sep 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

    To The Lab With that supporting data in hand, the team decided to test the weather/productivity connection in the controlled setting of a research lab. The goal was to establish causality for the correlative findings. "I love when you... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Amir Kermani & Kaveh Majlesi JULY 2020 What is the causal impact of changes in stock market wealth on households’ consumption? Using Swedish data on households’ stock holdings, the authors find that unrealized capital gains lead to a... View Details
    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Op-Ed

    Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

    prosperity growth (Baldwin, 2003; Dollar/Kraay, 2002; Frankel/Romer, 1999; Sachs/ Warner 1995), or highlighted the role of trade as a means to tap into foreign knowledge and raise productivity (Coe/Helpman, 1995; Alcala/Ciccone, 2004). But others are more skeptical and... View Details
    Keywords: by Christian Ketels
    • 30 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 May 2010
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    First Look: May 18

    establishing that cultural values causally impact the contents of gender stereotypes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-097.pdf Characteristic Timing Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract We use... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Feb 2017
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    First Look at New Research: February 14

    areas, whereas midscale stores enter less populated, lower-income areas. We find positive causal brand effects for specific upscale and midscale stores, above and beyond market effects, but find negative View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Oct 2010
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    First Look: October 19, 2010

    segmentations that are based on a correlation of product sales or service with the attributes of the purchaser (such as age, gender, income level, and education level), jobs-based segmentation seeks to understand the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 29

    creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the tendency to see superior performance as rooted in one's actions rather than other factors (such as luck). The second is that success feeds... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Feb 2014
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    First Look: February 25

    causal evidence for the role of matchmaking in promoting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46356 August 2013 Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse Oil, Macroeconomic Volatility... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    First Look -- September 1, 2015

    international expansion strategy. Despite significant progress in the literature, we have identified three areas for extension and enhancement in understanding strategy beyond markets. First, we currently have limited understanding of the critical View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Feb 2019
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    New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

    stemming from the idea that unexpected outcomes heighten the desire to sense-make, Study 4 shows that when bad news is unexpected, messenger dislike is pronounced. Finally, consistent with the notion that people fulfill the desire to sense-make by View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 02 Oct 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    Moreover, we find that contingent free shipping shifts demand to more popular products and that the effects of category-level price changes on profits depends on the active shipping policy. Our findings demonstrate the importance of jointly determining product... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Jun 2017
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

    policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 May 2012
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    First Look: May 8

    that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 15 Apr 2014
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    First Look: April 15

    Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on crime and conflict, which has usually assumed that the income channel is the most relevant... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Jan 2010
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    First Look: Jan. 20

    about the random coefficients logit can be attributed to the lack of cross-level inference in previous research. To overcome this deficiency, we design several Monte Carlo experiments to show what the model predicts at both the individual... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace