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  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

decade. These are the growth numbers that move markets. Is it possible that they could well lull one into a false sense of satisfaction and security? After all, GDP is an imperfect measure at best. For example, it goes up when a nation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • March 2017
  • Article

Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others

By: Todd Rogers, Richard Zeckhauser, F. Gino, Michael I. Norton and Maurice E. Schweitzer
Paltering is the active use of truthful statements to convey a misleading impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant... View Details
Keywords: Deception; Lying; Paltering; Risk; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics
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  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana If you’ve ever tuned into a Congressional testimony or legal deposition, you’ve likely heard a witness respond to a question with the words “I don’t recall.” For example, rapper Lil... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

believe those who claim to have definitive answers to these big questions. The data to answer most corona virus questions with certainty doesn’t exist. We won’t know for five years if immunity lasts five years. We can’t understand... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence
  • May 11, 2020
  • Article

Steer Your Family Businesses Through an Unplanned Transition

By: Josh Baron and Nick Di Loreto
In a perfect world, family businesses will transition leadership from one generation to the next along a predictable and well-planned process — whether that’s determined within the business, the ownership group, or the family itself — passing the baton after years of... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Planning; Family Business; Management Succession
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  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

anything but a good example for the average citizen. Left-wing politicians are equally guilty of framing the American Dream in material terms. They claim the Dream is increasingly out of reach of middle class Americans, pointing to a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes

By: Josh Lerner, Markus Lithell and Gordon M. Phillips
Impact investors claim to distinguish themselves from traditional venture capital and growth equity investors by also pursuing ESG objectives. Whether they successfully do so in practice is unclear. We use confidential Census Bureau microdata to assess worker... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Wages
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  • November 2024
  • Supplement

Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite (B)

By: Andy Wu and Ronald Wang
In a significant ruling on April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld portions of the district court’s decision against Epic Games back in September 2021. However, Apple’s anti-steering provisions, which restricted app developers from... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Market Transactions; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
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  • 18 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

After serving significant stints with Booz Allen, Yahoo! and Facebook, Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) can justifiably claim expertise in strategy, consulting, and social media. Although she regards her track record with pride, she sees herself... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How to Profit from Scarcity

the right place at the right price. Coca-Cola's mantra always has been to be within an arm's reach of desire. To be out of stock is to lose a sale or, worse, to lose a sale to a competitor. But marketers also understand that, by using the illusion of scarcity, they can... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Advertising
  • December 2011
  • Article

Alchemy of Evidence: Mau Mau, the British Empire, and the High Court of Justice

By: Caroline Elkins
Restorative justice in various forms is a phenomenon that has swept across the globe over the last three decades. Most recently, it is unfolding in the High Court of Justice in London where five Kenyans have filed a claim against the British government, alleging that... View Details
Keywords: Colonialism; History; Lawsuits and Litigation; United Kingdom; Kenya
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  • February 2020
  • Article

Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough': Prosocial Risk and the Structure of Moral Self-regard

By: Julian Zlatev, Daniella M. Kupor, Kristin Laurin and Dale T. Miller
The motivation to feel moral powerfully guides people’s prosocial behavior. We propose that people’s efforts to preserve their moral self-regard conform to a moral threshold model. This model predicts that people are primarily concerned with whether their... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Perception
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  • 27 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

best chance of producing surprisingly common results. The higher the score, the larger the donation to charity. John says that ideally, participants' answers would have been tested against evidence showing that they had actually performed, or not performed, the View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

    No Taxation without Information

    Tax evasion generates billions of dollars of losses in government revenue and creates large distortions, especially in developing countries. A growing, mostly theoretical literature argues that information flows are central to understanding effective taxation. This... View Details

    • May 28, 2019
    • Other Article

    How Russia Found a Disinformation Haven in America

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Galit Goldstein
    The Mueller Report established that “the Russians” undertook information operations campaigns to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Though this has been clear for a long time, Americans continue to discuss Russian information operations in the wrong way.... View Details
    Keywords: Elections; Donald Trump; Political Elections; National Security; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Social Media; Russia; United States
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    • 18 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

    2018 Innovation Policy and the Economy The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century By: Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—On the 35th... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 23

    venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of transforming Getit from a regional print company into a digital company with broad geographical reach was within grasp. However, Gupta had to View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 08 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Dan Bartels, University of Chicago

    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

    By: David Moss and Mary Oey
    What drives policy making in a democracy? The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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    • 2008
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Paranoid Style in the Study of American Politics

    By: David Moss and Mary Oey

    The conventional view is that political actors, like economic actors, pursue their self interest, and that special interest groups dominate the policy making process by satisfying policy makers' need for money and other forms of political support. Indeed, many... View Details

    Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Media; Interests; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; United States
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