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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
which often assumes that decision makers are rational and understand the implications of their choices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
world characterized by increasing complexity reconsidering profit as being the sole and superior criterion for business success, is the only rational approach to take." On the other hand, Dan Wallace argued, "The presumption... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
dysfunctional competition, while also providing tools that foster rational decision making. Consider this hypothetical question posed in the paper: A. If you die in an auto accident, your heart will be used to save another person's life.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
identification, tracking temperature and movement to provide data on health and fertility SeedLinked A two-sided platform for small farmers and seed producers to share information about taste and yield for different seed varieties across different biomes EZ View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
financing risk-that is, the risk that later—stage investors will not fund the startup, even if the fundamentals of the firm are still sound. We show that financing risk is part of a rational equilibrium where investors can flip from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the Brooklyn Heights town house where he... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
(residual income) the conceptual conflict is exacerbated by the adoption of 'fair value' (FV) as the measurement basis for assets and liabilities rather than the more theoretically grounded approach of 'deprival value/relief value' (DV/RV), which better reflects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
financial losses suggest that gray zones strive in contemporary organizations. The more interesting question is why do supposedly rationally designed and professionally managed organizations sustain such gray zones? This research suggests... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
announcement-leading to even greater use of the same production tool. Two controlled lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases, not rational expectations, drive the effect. Our research contributes not only... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
happened to be less effective than the tribal tricks of the trade—tricks that the employees hid from the higher-ups, thus thwarting the goal of learning by observing. Bernstein says that there was no ill-intent or cheating behind such hiding behavior, but merely a... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Recognize that companies and many groups they partner with, especially NGOs, "are in over their heads. None of them have ever done anything like this before," Ruggie said. "And so an overly rational approach to this may... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
rationally for a strategy become more available. This generates a fundamental tension in the origin of strategy: managers struggle to understand their environment well enough to search rationally for an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
(2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second half of 2008 forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. Having completed the distribution overhaul work by 2011, its senior managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which gives humans (perhaps too much)... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
strategic investment programs crucial to its ability to remain competitive with Boeing. Students must address questions concerning the proper way to measure foreign exchange exposures, the objectives of a rational risk management policy... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino