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  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

players, and actors—can teach us a number of strategies for distinguishing lies from truth. 1. Listen With All Your Senses University of California Medical School, San Francisco, professor Paul Ekman has pioneered the study of what he... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Rival Visions

Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy (Harvard University Press). To the rescue, McCraw recounts, came two unheralded immigrants, Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, later regarded by most experts as the two greatest US... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

You will experience psychological impasse many times in your life. During these times, you have the sensation that you're stuck or paralyzed. You're convinced that something must change, whether in your work or personal life. Though this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

Exchange Authors:F. Gino and F. Flynn Publication:Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies show that gift recipients are more appreciative receiving gifts they explicitly request than those they do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, eds. Publication:Oxford University Press, 2008 Abstract This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of research in business history. Business historians study the historical evolution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 04 Oct 2024
  • In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

McGinn is the the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at HBS. McGinn is studying these topics as part of ongoing research with Allison Daminger, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison;... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and debt issues that played key roles in the economic crisis that hit... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

during and after World War I, as well as demonstrating the rapidly changing market for dental hygiene in the interwar period. New marketing strategies based on psychological science and consumer protection agencies changed the rules of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

http://kuznets.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/KesslerRoth_OrganDonationAndAllocation.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, L. Pierce, and F. Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-041.pdf Publications From Wealth to Well-Being? Money Matters, but Less than People Think Authors: Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Publication: Journal of Positive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

book shows why such "predictable surprises" put us all at risk, and shows how we can understand, anticipate, and prevent them before disaster strikes. There is a universal fear factor surrounding this subject: that society and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

  PublicationsThe Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds. Publication:Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract Publisher's Book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Universal Desire for More Equal Pay" by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton, copyright 2014, Perspectives on Psychological Science "Executive Paywatch: High-paid CEOs and the Low-Wage Economy,"... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • Web

Podcast - HBS Online

associate dean for HBS Online and Executive Education, joins host Chris Linnane to uncover how financial statements communicate the essentials of business and why accounting is a universal language connecting companies of all sizes. Nancy... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

duties by way of assigning moral agency to business enterprises, we would do better to provide an account of the purpose of the for-profit business enterprises that is not simply about the pursuit of profit. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Art Nature Business

since 1979, the Arctic sea ice extent has declined by nearly 12 percent per decade. ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA Backbone of the Universe , 2019 Acrylic on canvas Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2019.7 Esteban Cabeza de Baca... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

Publication:Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 475-499 Abstract As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne