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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Attitudes; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Film Entertainment; Cognition and Thinking; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman. "Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-099, June 2007. (Revised July 2007, December 2007, April 2008, September 2008, January 2009.)

    The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card

    What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.

    Pouring yourself into a single... View Details

      Strong Brands, Strong Relationships

      From the editor team of the ground-breaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes this new volume. Strong Brands, Strong Relationships is a collection of innovative research and management insights that... View Details

      • 13 Nov 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

      time actually causes more happiness. They conducted an experiment with 60 working adults in Vancouver, Canada, over two weekends. During one weekend, they gave participants $40 to spend on a time-saving purchase. Some had groceries... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 04 Oct 2021
      • What Do You Think?

      How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

      Collins added—requires an emphasis on selecting, training, measuring, and rewarding with a greater emphasis on humility and empathy, according to Battilana and Casciaro. Easier said than done? For example, research has documented the conclusion that those who View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 08 Feb 2021
      • News

      How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

      • 15 Jun 2021
      • News

      Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

      society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to... View Details
      Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
      • 07 Apr 2015
      • News

      Warrior Spirit

      day. At that point, Sityodtong learned he had been accepted to HBS. A 1994 econ grad from Tufts University with experience working as an equity associate at Fidelity, he fit the profile of an MBA student. But making the decision to come... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
      • Blog

      Leading Successful Digital Transformation

      may be disrupted in the future is not the best recipe for long-term success. Experimentation: Companies often run hackathons and innovation days that inspire employees to start many new digital projects. Senior management encourages these initiatives as a way to View Details
      • 28 Feb 2022
      • Blog Post

      Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA

      you decide an MBA was the next step for you? I spent a solid amount of time building a real foundation and taking on new responsibilities at WME while witnessing a lot of change on an industry level. After such an incredible experience... View Details
      • 08 May 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

      their fundraising goals on Kickstarter. But during periods of higher anxiety, minorities experience an 8.2 percent lower success rate. Where and why it’s happening Meanwhile, Kerr and his co-authors considered—then knocked down— several... View Details
      Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
      • 04 Mar 2019
      • What Do You Think?

      What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

      experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales,” “a parasitic economic logic,” “a rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth,” “as significant a threat to human... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
      • 22 Apr 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Does Spirituality Drive Success?

      high point in his journalism career, Schwartz said, having written for such prominent publications as The New York Times, Newsweek, and New York magazine, Schwartz co-wrote what became a best-selling book, The Art of the Deal, with real estate mogul Donald Trump. The... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
      • 01 Jun 2001
      • News

      Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

      In 1996, Alejandro Ramirez (MBA 2001) was poised to accept one of two coveted spots in the U.N. Junior Professional Officer Program. For Ramirez, who had spent the previous fifteen months conducting research on economic and human development issues at the World Bank... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
      • Web

      Events - Business & Environment

      MBA Experience Events 2ms HBS BEI Events Business and Environment Kickoff : An opportunity to learn about all the business & environment activities at HBS and how you can get involved. (September) BEI Events Page : Keep up to date on the... View Details
      • 09 Jun 2015
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      Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

      Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au “I remember Dean Kim Clark greeting us on my first day at HBS,” says Yat-Pang Au. “He said, ‘This will be a transformative experience in your life.’ Fifteen years later, I can confirm the truth of that... View Details
      • 2002
      • Book

      Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

      By: Rakesh Khurana
      Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
      Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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      • 30 Nov 2023
      • Blog Post

      College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

      under the guidance of HBS faculty members during our case method sessions. Learn more about Peek and the registration process here or read our FAQs below. What is the mission of Peek? Peek is intended as an introduction to the MBA View Details
      • Portrait Project

      Shivangi Goel

      to provide high quality care for hundreds of patients with COVID-19 in a converted conference ballroom without any of the usual resources. This experience defined me and how I deal with adversity, pain and suffering. In just a few months... View Details
      • 24 Oct 2019
      • Blog Post

      Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

      interviewer asks the applicant questions about their work experience, their interests, and what they would contribute to the HBS community. For applicants interested in the JD/MBA, interviewers may ask why they want to pursue the joint degree and what View Details
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