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- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
research will get people to think, ‘Hey, how can I spend a little bit of money in a way that will save me time?’” Whillans co-wrote the study with Michael I. Norton, the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at HBS;... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature
Keywords: by Andrew King & Michael W. Toffel
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
iStockPhoto State laws that require people to wait a few days before purchasing firearms reduce gun-related homicides by 17 percent, new research shows. Waiting periods saved 750 lives per year in the 17 states that had such policies in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting
- 07 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Calculators for Women: When Identity Appeals Provoke Backlash
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
Relationship Rituals” by Ximena Garcia-Rada, Ovul Sezer, and Michael I. Norton The researchers' study focused on couples, but rituals are used in a variety of settings, including the workplace, they say.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
residency, including on metrics such as patients’ likelihood of recommending their specialist, write Maximilian J. Pany, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School and MD candidate at Harvard Medical School, and J. Michael... View Details
- 16 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards
- 06 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies
- 26 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Managed Ecosystems and Translucent Institutional Logics: Engaging Communities
- 05 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
racial discrimination. In Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com, Benjamin G. Edelman and Michael Luca investigate the possibility of racial discrimination against people who advertise properties on Airbnb, a popular online... View Details
- May 6, 2024
- Book Review
Is That What You Really Think?: Book Review of "Third Millennium Thinking" by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun
By: Michael Luca
Luca, Michael. Is That What You Really Think? Book Review of "Third Millennium Thinking" by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell and Robert MacCoun. Wall Street Journal (May 6, 2024), A.15.
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
New Video: Books@Baker Virtual Session with Michael Beer After prospering for more than 100 years, General Electric found itself in trouble in the early 2000s, facing the double wallop of a depressed energy sector and the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Great Training Robbery
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
A novel approach to repaying debt could help consumers free themselves from crushing credit card balances faster, according to new research. Rather than asking borrowers to make payments toward their total balances, Harvard Business School Professor View Details
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
that gentrification can ruin neighborhoods by forcing out existing businesses that serve the needs of the locals. “We found that changes in the local economy—such as a new coffee shop opening—can predict gentrification,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
leadership has the courage to initiate the measures necessary to do so. We've discovered that standard initiatives such as employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively straightforward, one-on-one conversations... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries