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- February 2018
- Article
The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask
By: Christine L. Exley and Ragan Petrie
Individuals frequently exploit "flexibility" built into decision environments to give less. They use uncertainty to justify options benefiting themselves over others, they avoid information that may encourage them to give, and they avoid the ask itself. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Charitable Giving; Prosocial Behavior; Self-serving Biases; Excuses; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Behavior
Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie. "The Impact of a Surprise Donation Ask." Journal of Public Economics 158 (February 2018): 152–167.
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
president and CEO of San Diego–based Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits, can attest: Last November, Constellation Brands (which owns Corona and Svedka vodka) acquired Ballast Point for approximately $1 billion. We asked Buechler to answer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on finding ways to reduce human impact on climate change. View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Star Search
Above: photo by Getty/Bloomberg Nobody, says Kate Gulliver (MBA 2009), chooses to work somewhere just because they offer a free lunch. “I think people care far more about being excited about the content of View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media in the last decade had many marketers wondering if it might... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
When CEOs speak with Rob Kaplan looking for answers, he usually focuses them instead on figuring out and discussing the right questions. "Show me a company, nonprofit, or a government leader that is struggling, and almost invariably... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
Learning to Become a Taste Expert
Evidence suggests that consumers seek to become more expert about hedonic products to enhance their enjoyment of future consumption occasions. Current approaches to becoming an expert center on cultivating an analytic mindset. In the present research the authors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
© d20/ZUMA © d20/ZUMA Governments across the globe are getting serious about weaning themselves off of fossil fuels. Denmark has pledged to be powered solely by renewable energy by 2050; Sweden pledged to reach View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Finding Excuses to Decline the Ask
Keywords: by Christine Exley & Ragan Petrie
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of View Details
- 02 May 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How To Ask Better Questions
Asking the right questions is the key to unlocking talent, opportunity, money, even second dates. Research shows asking follow-up questions... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- September 20, 2019
- Editorial
Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback
By: Jaewon Yoon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella S. Kristal and A.V. Whillans
Conventional wisdom says you should ask your colleagues for feedback. However, research suggests that feedback often has no (or even a negative) impact on our performance. This is because the feedback we receive is often too vague—it fails to highlight what we can... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Advice; Advice Seeking; Feedback Culture; Advice Taking; Interpersonal Communication
Yoon, Jaewon, Hayley Blunden, Ariella S. Kristal, and A.V. Whillans. "Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 20, 2019).
- 20 Sep 2019
- News
Why Asking for Advice Is More Effective Than Asking for Feedback
- 2020
- Working Paper
When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
The evaluation of novel projects lies at the heart of scientific and technological innovation, and yet literature suggests that this process is subject to inconsistency and potential biases. This paper investigates the role of information sharing among experts as the... View Details
Keywords: Project Evaluation; Innovation; Knowledge Frontier; Negativity Bias; Projects; Innovation and Invention; Information; Diversity; Judgments
Lane, Jacqueline N., Misha Teplitskiy, Gary Gray, Hardeep Ranu, Michael Menietti, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "When Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? The Role of Negative Information in Expert Evaluations for Novel Projects." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-007, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Experts hope cities rise to the occasion
- 13 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning to Become a Taste Expert
- August 1985 (Revised February 1986)
- Case
Union Carbide Corp.: The Expert Systems Project
Porter, Leslie R., and Jane C. Linder. "Union Carbide Corp.: The Expert Systems Project." Harvard Business School Case 186-012, August 1985. (Revised February 1986.)