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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
learning firsthand about their daily challenges. “Imagine listening to callers in crisis over a 16-hour shift. It’s an emotionally taxing job. We created crisis intervention training for the 90 call takers, establishing new protocols and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr Radiology Center in Cairo. The chain of radiology centers offers... View Details
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Discrimination: Joint versus Separate Decision Making Corinne Moss-Racusin , Skidmore College Testing Interventions to Reduce Gender Bias in STEM Fields Emilio Castilla , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management... View Details
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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
influence, including classroom teaching; practitioner-oriented publishing; using research to inform organizations; and conducting organizational interventions as venues for creating change through disseminating, translating, and applying... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
the rest got $3. Flexible. Participants would be compensated for working out at any time, with the same $7 and $3 breakdown as the routine group. Control. This group was encouraged to exercise without financial incentives. During the four-week View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Alan Braly
included launching a startup to commercialize an interventional oncology medical device. He was previously at Health Advances, a boutique healthcare strategy consulting firm, where he led engagements in diagnostics, therapeutics, medical... View Details
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
University of Illinois at Chicago Interventions That Work: Alternative Paths to Minimizing Workplace Gender Bias Kate Kellogg , MIT Sloan School of Management Create Relational Spaces for Transformational Change Initiatives focus on... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
intervention training for the 90 call takers, establishing new protocols and role-playing exercises that enabled them to identify and correctly triage calls over to a clinician on site,” she explains. “That had a big impact on improving... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
the University of Pennsylvania’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative to test new ways to nudge members to exercise. Researchers found that while all of their interventions yielded an initial surge of activity, many of those gains waned... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
we are facing today is a result of previous government actions, and today’s government actions will give rise to future problems as well. The lesson should be that we need to get to a point where we don’t need to intervene in the future, because we realize that View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
—Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020) Mendu also shadowed staff in Detroit’s 911 call centers, learning firsthand about their daily challenges. “Imagine listening to callers in crisis over a 16-hour shift. It’s an emotionally taxing job. We created crisis View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
the hackathon, the need for this more granular type of policy data intensified as two things became clear: First, COVID-19 behaves very differently from county to county. Second, since vaccines and medications have lengthy lead times, so-called non-pharmacological... View Details
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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
sculptures are also interventions that can transform public spaces and inspire action. As he wrote in his 1971 statement, “Notes on Black Art”: “We must make works that use our lives and feelings as their basis for existence. The work can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future Research and Action,” with 28 other researchers. "Low-cost, light touch interventions can improve conditions for employees." The havoc the virus has wreaked on businesses worldwide... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman