Surveys - Publications - Faculty & Research

2020
Working Paper

Older People Are Less Pessimistic About the Health Risks of COVID-19

By: Pedro Bordalo, Katherine B. Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer

A central question for understanding behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic, at both the individual and collective levels, is how people perceive the health and economic risks they face. We conducted a survey of over 1,500 Americans from May 6–13, 2020, to understand... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Age

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September 2018
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The Reputation of the 'World's Most Prestigious Award': The Nobel Prize

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Mats Urde

Nobel Foundation leadership is addressing a range of issues related to its key role to safeguard the reputation of the Nobel Prizes. Included are outreach to global audiences, the variety of sources of communications about the Prizes, the advent of new high-value... View Details

Keywords: Nobel Prize; Reputation; Brands and Branding; Management

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19 May 2015
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The potential payoff for kids of working mothers

19 Sep 2018
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How To End Procrastination And Finish That Big Project

September 2023
Article

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Experimental Evidence from Nine Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Vincenzo Galasso, Vincent Pons, Paola Profeta, Martin McKee, David Stuckler, Michael Becher, Sylvain Brouard and Martial Foucault

We study the impact of public health messages on intentions to vaccinate and vaccination uptakes, especially among hesitant groups. We performed an experiment comparing the effects of egoistic and altruistic messages on COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviour. We... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccination; Vaccine Hesitancy; Information Campaigns; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Information

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December 2023
Background Note

Organizational Learning

By: Willy Shih

This is a background note that surveys part of the extensive literature on organizational learning. The focus is on learning from experiences, how those learnings get translated into organizational routines and processes, and how that can also lead to getting stuck in... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Knowledge; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry

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10 May 2013
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Women and Work: A Harvard Prof’s Take

24 Aug 2015
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The Workplace Culture That Flying Nannies Won’t Fix

06 Jun 2021
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Help Your Employees Who Are Anxious About Returning to the Office

06 Oct 2018
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The cycle of debt among vendors in India and the Philippines

01 Aug 2017
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Men Are Now The Predominant Grocery Shoppers

11 Sep 2012
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Harvard’s ‘wise men’ tell Silicon Valley: Our country is losing its competitiveness

17 Jan 2019
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Companies Have No Idea How Much Employees Struggle to Balance Caregiving and Work

28 Aug 2017
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Basic Competence Can Be a Strategy

15 Sep 2016
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Report: US government inaction is hampering economic growth

15 May 2013
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HBS to U.S.: Competitiveness Continues to Erode

16 Nov 2012
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Something for the weekend

July 2021
Article

Discovering Auctions: Contributions of Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

By: Alex Teytelboym, Shengwu Li, Scott Duke Kominers, Mohammad Akbarpour and Piotr Dworczak

The 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson for “improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” In this survey article, we review the contributions of the... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Auctions; Theory; Design

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