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  • 2017
  • Article

A Brief Money Management Scale and Its Associations with Personality, Financial Health, and Hypothetical Debt Repayment

By: Masha Ksendzova, Grant Edward Donnelly and Ryan Howell
Money management is essential for financial health, and more research is needed to better assess people’s money management practices. Therefore, we factor-analyzed 205 scaled questions from previous money management measures to select the best items and examined their... View Details
Keywords: Budgeting; Debt; Money Management; Financial Health; Scale Development; Budgets and Budgeting; Personal Finance; Behavior; Decision Making
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  • 2015
  • Article

International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

By: C. Fritz Foley and Kalina Manova
An emerging new literature brings unique ideas from corporate finance to the study of international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Investment; Trade; Corporate Finance
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  • 03 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

Lovers, and Lotteries," forthcoming in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. In one experiment, the researchers set out to determine whether rituals led to an increased sense of control, and whether that sense of control... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

John Stuart Mill, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old questions autonomous vehicles are now raising—in new and urgent ways—for businesses and their leaders. “And by genuine ethical decisions, I mean decisions about the rights of... View Details
Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
  • Blog

What Black Executives Really Want

WHY DID YOU START RESEARCHING BLACK EXECUTIVES? I am not an expert in diversity and inclusion, but I had thought about marginalization, both as a child growing up in India, where I saw the marginalization of some minority groups, and as a... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective

By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth
Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient-donor pairs, in cycles and chains of exchange, so each patient receives a compatible kidney.... View Details
Keywords: Kidney Exchange Programs; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Programs; Design
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  • March 2014
  • Background Note

Setting Price Effectively

By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson
Price is one of the most powerful instruments a manager can use to influence the take-up of her product, especially in a subsidized and noncompetitive market as is common for global health products. However, the question of whether and how to price has been the subject... View Details
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Papers in progress

  • “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • June 2021
  • Article

Cognition and Emotion in Extreme Political Action: Individual Differences and Dynamic Interactions

By: Leor Zmigrod and Amit Goldenberg
Who is most likely to join and engage in extreme political action? While traditional theories have focused on situational factors or group identity attributes, an emerging science illustrates that tendencies for extreme political action may also be rooted in... View Details
Keywords: Extreme Political Action; Ideology; Political Psychology; Cognition-emotion Interactions; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Personal Characteristics
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    How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management

    High-performing knowledge workers often question whether managers actually contribute much, especially in a technical environment. Until recently, that was the case at Google, a company filled with self-starters who viewed management as more destructive than beneficial... View Details
    • April 2023
    • Case

    Elliott Management: Capital Allocation in Biopharma

    By: Amitabh Chandra, Paul Clancy and Lauren Gunasti
    The case explores the intersection of capital allocation and shareholder activism in the biopharmaceutical industry. As many biopharma companies face looming patent expirations for key medicines, the case asks the question of whether investing in R&D and M&A is an... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Capital Allocation; Biopharmaceutical Industry; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Resource Allocation; Research and Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 16 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 16, 2007

      Working PapersShamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel. Abstract We apply institutional theory to explain how firms respond to information disclosure. Considering the impact of institutional and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Thin Slices of Teams with Professor Jeff Polzer, Patricia Satterstrom, and Lisa Kwan

    How do people evaluate team effectiveness from short observations of interactions among team members?  What are the cues people take in in such narrow windows of experience?  What contributes to the accuracy of evaluations based on thin slices of... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    People, Practices, and Productivity: A Review of New Advances in Personnel Economics

    By: Mitchell Hoffman and Christopher T. Stanton
    This chapter surveys recent advances in personnel economics. We begin by presenting evidence showing substantial and persistent productivity variation among workers in the same roles. We discuss new research on incentives and compensation; hiring practices; the... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Labor
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    • September 2021
    • Article

    Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective

    By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth
    Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient-donor pairs, in cycles and chains of exchange, so each patient receives a compatible kidney.... View Details
    Keywords: Kidney Exchange Programs; Matching; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Programs; Design
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

    By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
    Existing research has documented the large impact that automatic enrollment has on savings plan participation. All the companies examined in these studies, however, have combined automatic enrollment with an employer match. This raises a question about how effective... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Compensation and Benefits
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    • Article

    An Exploration of Marketing's Impact on Society: A Perspective Linked to Democracy

    By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
    The authors propose a political theory perspective for examining the impact of the modern aggregate marketing system on consumer welfare and society. Specifically, they suggest that the benefits marketing delivers to consumers are similar to the conditions required for... View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Welfare
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    • 19 May 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: May 19

    as BWCs, and two others were set to be announced in the fall. Dow senior executives believed that Dow was creating shared value through its BWC products. As management began drafting the company's sustainability plan for 2015 and beyond, CEO Andrew Liveris confronted... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Race, Work, and Leadership

      Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people’s experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations... View Details