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  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

the model is inappropriately applied. On the other hand, a model that has been notably successful in a series of new businesses can result in exaggerated expectations of the rewards from an innovation that has received insufficient scrutiny for that reason. The latter... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
  • 2014
  • Book

Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare

By: Gunnar Trumbull
Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces... View Details
Keywords: Attitudes; Credit; France; United States
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  • 2022
  • Article

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details
Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Well-being; Money; Perception; Kenya
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  • 07 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Wilbur Chung; Technology
  • August 2024
  • Article

Partisans neither Expect nor Receive Reputational Rewards for Sharing Falsehoods over Truth Online.

By: Isaias Ghezae, Jillian J. Jordan, Izzy Gainsburg, Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook, Robb Willer and David Rand
A frequently invoked explanation for the sharing of false over true political information is that partisans are motivated by their reputations. In particular, it is often argued that by indiscriminately sharing news that is favorable to one’s political party,... View Details
Keywords: Political Ideology; Reputation; Communication Intention and Meaning; Social Media; News
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  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the... View Details
Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

table generating competing offers or involving other parties — that is, enhancing one's BATNA. Of course, a good BATNA may provide added leverage, since there is a great deal of perceived power in a party's willingness or apparent... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 19 Nov 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Christian Terwiesch, Wharton

  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

with similar experience, workload, and patient profiles—but varying in their level of task shifting—suggests that shifting of lower complexity tasks by senior surgeons to trained junior colleagues does not negatively impact in-hospital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Chemical
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive that there are private... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

several reasons. First, when employees perceive meetings as a waste of time, job satisfaction declines, which then leads to a general fall in happiness. Second, pointless meetings also generally increase fatigue and our subjective sense... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?

behave when they experience higher levels of passion. Among their findings: Supervisors are more likely to perceive extroverted employees as passionate compared to introverts, even when the two groups report View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

trade press. Reasons for the discrepancy are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-044.pdf Taste Heterogeneity, IIA, and the Similarity Critique Authors:Thomas J. Steenburgh and Andrew Ainslie Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

correctly and shaping one’s response to it optimally. The maxim of Epictetus, “What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens,” has similarities to both Buddhist doctrine and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

women, but rather, may identify as a mix of both genders, consider themselves somewhere in between, or decline to align with either gender. Coffman set out to understand this population better—in terms of how others perceive them and how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

set aside their ethical qualms in deference to perceived authority figures (Milgram, 1963). Similarly, the 1971 “prison” experiments by Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo had demonstrated the power of context to alter people’s ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event, different experiences compete for retrieval, and retrieved experiences are used to simulate the event based on how similar they are to it. The model... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman