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The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

By: Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
A large body of literature on state–business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to that literature and understanding of the internal differentiation among... View Details
Keywords: China's Political Economy; State-business Relations; Business Groups; Financial System; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Economic Systems; China
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How Beliefs about Self-creation Inflate Value in the Human Brain

By: Raphael Koster, Tali Sharot, Rachel Yuan, Benedetto De Martino, Michael I. Norton and Raymond J. Dolan
Humans have a tendency to overvalue their own ideas and creations. Understanding how these errors in judgement emerge is important for explaining suboptimal decisions, as when individuals and groups choose self-created alternatives over superior or equal ones. We show... View Details
Keywords: fMRI; Amygdala; Hippocampus; Medial Temporal Lobe; Caudate Nucleus; Values and Beliefs
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  • September–October 2015
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Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

By: Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer
Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the structure of 16-person networks, we investigate how an organization's network structure shapes performance of problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Experiments; Clustering; Problem Solving; Exploration And Exploitation; Knowledge; Search; Collaboration; Collaboration Structures; Transparency; Communication; Communication Technology; Information; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry
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Prosocial Spending and Buying Time: Money as a Tool for Increasing Subjective Well-Being

By: Elizabeth Dunn, A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton and Lara B. Aknin
Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between income and happiness, but a newer wave of work suggests that how people use their money also matters. We discuss the three primary areas in which psychologists have explored the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Wellbeing; Money; Spending; Decision Making; Happiness; Well-being
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  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance, demonstrating that the increase in extra life year gains by relaxing certain fairness constraints can be as high as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2023
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The Business of Campaigns

By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin
In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

    This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details
    • September 2012
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    Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention

    By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike

    Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.

    Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details

    Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Cost
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

    By: Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
    This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending expiration of fixed-term... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Contracts; Behavior; Employment
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    • 2021
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    To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law

    By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
    Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details
    Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 03 Feb 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results

    Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
    • 02 Dec 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

    computer algorithm. Bad News Bears What they discovered was surprising. This wasn't a small number of companies manipulating their earnings calls. "Instead, it seems that nearly every firm finds it useful to choreograph or 'cast' a call... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
    • 22 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

    Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical
    • 26 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

    brain data to play a key role in future research on consumer choice. (In a recent HBS industry background note on neuromarketing, she discusses the techniques that have helped researchers decode secrets such as why people love... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
    • 16 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 16, 2016

    Abstract—Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–-2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by the weekly class schedule and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 17

      Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

    last letter of a paragraph, or more difficult, deleting every adverb in a paragraph. Then, at the end of the experiment, they accused all participants—regardless of whether they had actually done the task correctly—of having done the task incorrectly. This enabled the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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    Research Services - Faculty & Research

    management. Services include fact checking, literature reviews, data source consultation and purchasing as well as data manipulation and analysis. HBS also hosts the world’s... View Details
    • 22 May 2024
    • HBS Case

    Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

    TikTok knows what users care about, it serves them more content they may enjoy. Users feed the app data all the time because TikTok makes it fun to create and consume. And the algorithm can then serve a wider variety of content to see... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
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    Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
    Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior