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  • Aug 2004 - 2004
  • Conference Presentation

Institutional Innovation: Socio-cognitive Reconstruction of Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Julie Battilana and E. Boxenbaum
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Cognition and Thinking; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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Battilana, Julie, and E. Boxenbaum. "Institutional Innovation: Socio-cognitive Reconstruction of Corporate Social Responsibility." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, New Orleans, August 2004.
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From Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making.

By: Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton
Due to the sheer number and variety of decisions that people make in their everyday lives-from choosing yogurts to choosing religions to choosing spouses-research in judgment and decision making has taken many forms. We suggest, however, that much of this research has... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments; Research; Problems and Challenges
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Ariely, Dan, and Michael I. Norton. "From Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 2, no. 1 (January–February 2011): 39–46.
  • 04 Mar 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Revision Bias

Keywords: by Ximena Garcia-Rada, Leslie John, Ed O’Brien, and Michael I. Norton
  • August 2009
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Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer

By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by comparing the purchases online grocery customers make when redeeming $10-off coupons with the purchases they make without coupons. Controlling for customer fixed effects and other variables, we... View Details
Keywords: Mental Accounting; Windfalls; Marginal Propensity To Consume; Coupons; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Cognition and Thinking; Retail Industry
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Beshears, John, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71, no. 2 (August 2009): 384–394.
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on average react negatively to an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/in_microfinance_clients_must_come_first/ Thinking About Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change Authors:Sarah Kaplan and Mary Tripsas Periodical:Research Policy (forthcoming).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Exercise

Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Strategy
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"Raptor Oil Company: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 711-511, April 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
  • 04 May 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally applicable was a matter of discussion among respondents to this... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

so as to encompass a wider range of emotionally resonate capabilities in the context of innovative change. For incumbent firms, we argue that the way the TMT cognitively thinks about, and emotionally frames, non-incremental innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2024
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Stereotypes and Belief Updating

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Manuela Collis and Leena Kulkarni
We explore how feedback shapes, and perpetuates, gender gaps in self-assessments. Participants in our experiment take tests of their ability across different domains. We elicit their beliefs of their performance before and after feedback. We find that, even after the... View Details
Keywords: Beliefs; Stereotypes; Self-assessment; Performance Evaluation; Gender; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Knowledge Sharing
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Coffman, Katherine B., Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni. "Stereotypes and Belief Updating." Journal of the European Economic Association 22, no. 3 (June 2024): 1011–1054.
  • December 1998 (Revised May 1999)
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Specialty Medical Chemicals

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Lucinda Doran
A new general manager is supposed to rekindle growth. Seven months later, he questions the abilities of his direct reports. An organizational psychologist is brought in to assess his people. The general manager now has to decide who to keep and how to structure his... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Employees; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Cognition and Thinking
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Hamermesh, Richard G., and Lucinda Doran. "Specialty Medical Chemicals." Harvard Business School Case 399-094, December 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
  • 2011
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Cognitive, Affective, and Special-interest Barriers to Policy Making

By: Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max Bazerman
Keywords: Policy; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Conflict of Interests
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Shu, Lisa L., Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max Bazerman. "Cognitive, Affective, and Special-interest Barriers to Policy Making." In Social Judgment and Decision Making, edited by Joachim Krueger.Frontiers of Social Psychology. Psychology Press, 2011.
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How to Bounce Back from Adversity

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz
The article focuses on how companies can be managed to overcome adversity with resilience. The characteristics of resilient managers who provide leadership for their teams and can build resilience in their employees are discussed. The manager's ability to shift... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leadership; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking
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Margolis, Joshua D., and Paul G. Stoltz. "How to Bounce Back from Adversity." Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 1/2 (January–February 2010).
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Frame Flexibility: The Role of Cognitive and Emotional Framing in Innovation Adoption by Incumbent Firms By: Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Why do incumbent firms frequently reject nonincremental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Unexpected Benefits of Deciding by Mind Wandering

By: Colleen Giblin, Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that such mind wandering—allowing one's thoughts to wander until the "correct" choice comes to mind—can positively impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Satisfaction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking
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Giblin, Colleen, Carey K. Morewedge, and Michael I. Norton. "Unexpected Benefits of Deciding by Mind Wandering." Art. 598. Frontiers in Psychology 4 (September 6, 2013).
  • 2007
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Coupled Search Processes: Why Is it so Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters?

By: Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan Rivkin
Organizational design affects performance via coupled search processes. At low frequency, managers search for appropriate organizational designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled:... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Operations; Organizational Design; Performance; Networks; Research; Cognition and Thinking; Strategy
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Siggelkow, Nicolaj, and Jan Rivkin. "Coupled Search Processes: Why Is it so Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-106, June 2007.
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Vision: Learning Curve

poverty,” Gupta says. What they lack are the awareness, the information, and the tools required to take a more active role in supporting their children’s early cognitive development—all of which are gaps that Rocket Learning aims to fill.... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

invented, they’ve always been private,” he says. “You have to get over the cognitive block of, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be open to all the parties,’ and secondly, ‘I now have to change all my processes.’ ” The technology, Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • June 28, 2011
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Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Nudge; Libertarian Paternalism; Public Health; Flu Shot; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking
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Milkman, Katherine L., John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 26 (June 28, 2011): 10415–10420.
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Sigman Abstract—We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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