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  • September–October 2013
  • Article

The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics

By: Doug J. Chung
I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the "Flutie Effect." I treat athletic success as a stock of goodwill that decays over... View Details
Keywords: Choice Modeling; Entertainment Marketing; Heterogeneity; Panel Data; Structural Modeling; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Higher Education; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Advertising; Sports; Advertising Industry; Education Industry
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  • November 2007 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Differences at Work: Martin (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
Martin, a gay man who was not out at his Italian firm, witnesses his division manager deliver a homophobic comment to his boss. He wonders what he should do. View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Gender; Diversity; Power and Influence
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  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

Business School from the 1960s onward marks the decisive ascendancy of economics, and particularly financial economics, in business education over the other behavioral disciplines, as well as the decisive ascendancy of business schools as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

instance, estimates of U.S. annual losses indicate $1 trillion paid in bribes, $270 billion lost due to unreported income, as well as $42 billion lost in retail due to shoplifting and employee theft. In this article we draw on insights from the growing fields of moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607064 Ascent Media Group (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 607-080 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607080 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

factors will be mitigated (by) leaders who are short on ethics and morality ." Others, most of whom assumed that the technologies would successfully be applied, were less sanguine about the results, expanding on Levine's concerns.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Letters to the Editor

inculcate a higher sense of ethics in the national and international leaders it anoints. There must be a countervailing force to compensate for the all-too-often glorified notion of profit at all costs — now. Growing the pie for the... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Article

When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams

By: Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to provide more meaningful information about the world than similar... View Details
Keywords: Anchoring; Attribution; Dreams; Motivated Reasoning; Unconscious Thought; Communication Intention and Meaning; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Information; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our results also serve to highlight differences in behavior between simulated agents and human bidders that mechanism designers should take into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Moral Incoherence During Category Emergence: The Contentious Case of Connected Toys

By: Ryann Noe
Through a longitudinal study of the emergence of connected toys – physical toys that interact with digital devices – I build theory about moral incoherence: when competing views about the moral worth of a category persist over time. During the course of their... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Moral Sensibility; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou
Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury goods... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Marketing; Behavior; Power and Influence; Luxury
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Disability Pride Month | Baker Library

of the featured women, Dr. Temple Grandin, transformed the cattle industry by applying her understanding of animal behavior to design low-stress livestock handling systems, now used in facilities processing over half of North America's... View Details
  • April 2012
  • Article

The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John and George Loewenstein
Two sets of studies illustrate the comparative nature of disclosure behavior. The first set investigates how divulgence is affected by signals about others' readiness to divulge. Study 1A shows a "herding" effect, such that survey respondents are more willing to... View Details
Keywords: Rights; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Judgments; Consumer Behavior; Standards
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  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

cast may deviate dramatically from pure QV predictions because of the complex and refined nature of equilibrium play. Most plausibly, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

Publisher's Link: http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/publications/MF10-16.pdf Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior Authors:F., M. Schweitzer Gino, N. Mead, and D. Ariely Publication:Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Misconduct: The Effect of Gradual Degradation on the Failure to Notice Others' Unethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Four laboratory studies show that people are more likely to accept others' unethical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace