Behavioral Science - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

download available at this time. Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2020
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Turning Point: Change, Stat

science or treatments. Working in the ER at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital in New York City—which was dubbed “the epicenter,” I got to see the progression of the virus. We went from “This is just a bad version of the flu;... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract Unethical and dishonest behavior... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2021
Article

The Firm Next Door: Using Satellite Images to Study Local Information Advantage

By: Jung Koo Kang, Lorien Stice-Lawrence and Forester Wong

We use novel satellite data that track the number of cars in the parking lots of 92,668 stores for 71 publicly listed U.S. retailers to study the local information advantage of institutional investors. We establish car counts as a timely measure of store-level... View Details

Keywords: Satellite Images; Store-level Performance; Institutional Investors; Local Advantage; Overweighting; Processing Costs; Alternative Data; Big Data; Emerging Technologies; Information; Quality; Institutional Investing; Decision Making; Behavioral Finance; Analytics and Data Science

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26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

FemTech, the segment of the health care and life sciences industry focused on women’s health. A combined 175 alumni attended the discussions which featured alumni panelists who are investing in, or leading, companies in the FemTech space.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with a game-changing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Dec 2016
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Dear Future Author…

disciplined approach.)” —Peter Pruzan (MBA 1959), professor emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, and author of Research Methodology: The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science Gabriela Couturier (photo via LinkedIn) Gabriela Couturier... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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@Soldiers Field

STEPPING UP Above: HBS students are among the Wednesday morning, stair-climbing fanatics at Harvard Stadium—a 2,122-step challenge led by The November Project, a global social fitness group that started in Boston. (photo by Susan Young) TOPPED OFF The final beam of... View Details

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Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Julie Battilana Power and Influence for Positive Impact Organizational Behavior Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Max H. Bazerman Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie... View Details

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1.6 Degree Requirements | MBA

Control (FRC) Data Science and AI for Leaders (DSAIL) 1.5 credits Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) Marketing (MKT) FIELD Global Capstone (CAP) Strategy (STRAT)... View Details

14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Rebecca Emerick

and building and managing relationships with MBA and alumni recruiting partners. Rebecca has spent most of her professional career at Harvard University in a variety of management roles at the Harvard Kennedy School (Belfer Center for View Details

Keywords: Consulting

19 Feb 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell, Shwetha Mariadassou, and Yanchong Zheng

05 Jun 2019
Working Paper Summaries

How Transparency into Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer Choice

Keywords: by Ryan W. Buell and Basak Kalkanci

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

ethnography of serial migration in Dubai focusing on motherhood, work, and movement (under contract with Columbia University Press). She has received fellowships from the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral View Details

14 Feb 2018
News

A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace

Partners, Coleman serves on the Los Angeles World Affairs Council board of directors, and the advisory boards of Stanford University’s Council of the Humanities and Sciences and its Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She also serves... View Details

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

concluded that "governments should fund education in math and science ... Markets will take care of entrepreneurial innovation." Jay Somasundaram asked whether we are even asking the right question. In his words, "The... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of developing countries. She believes that global health... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
Case

Cape Wind

By: John T. Gourville and Kerry Herman

Cape Wind has proposed placing a 170-tower wind farm, with each tower more than 400-feet tall, in Nantucket Sound. Not surprisingly, public reaction is mixed. Some view the wind farm as clean, renewable energy. Others view it as an eyesore and a desecration of a valued... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Renewable Energy; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Behavior; United States

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