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  • 16 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

trip by, for example, vacationing closer to home; drive more economically and less aggressively to improve miles per gallon; and buy a specific dollar amount of gas rather than filling up every time, even though this may mean more visits... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 21 Mar 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis, Luc Renneboog & Sunny Li Sun
  • Research Summary

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The Information Age has introduced well recieved opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands show individuals their own performance; service companies including Uber and leading hospitals help pick from drivers or doctors based on how others rate them;... View Details
Keywords: Management Accounting; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Healthcare Industry; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by—and reflective of—hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of behavioral ethics and my experience as a co-author on a fraudulent paper to explore changes that are needed to improve research integrity. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to... View Details
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found on the doctoral programs website: PhD in Business Economics PhD in Organizational View Details
  • January 2017
  • Article

Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods

By: Dina Pomeranz
Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public... View Details
Keywords: Practice; Public Sector; Research; Policy; Performance Evaluation
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    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

    Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
    • March 2007
    • Article

    Local Company Politics: A Proposal

    By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
    Corrupt politicians, and poor government more generally, are commonly viewed as a primary barrier to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success.... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior
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    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    Consumer Behavior ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Welfare ; Policy Citation Find at Harvard Purchase Related Farronato, Chiara, Audrey Fradkin, and Tesary Lin. "Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

    Keywords: by Bo Becker & Victoria Ivashina
    • 11 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

    Keywords: by Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
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    Europe - Global

    Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the world’s most important View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    academics through the Business Economics doctoral program. Our applied focus and access to business organizations are major advantages which are reinforced by our students and our case-based approach. We have a faculty with broad... View Details
    • 29 Sep 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

    having these stores and just having a sales rack in the back?" As a doctoral student in economics at Columbia, Ngwe was fascinated by the incredible range of products that retailers offer to consumers, and wondered just how this... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    Mike Toffel to explore the innovation, behavioral science, and regulations shaping the market for reusable containers for take-out food and beverages. Fabian shares how Vytal is tackling packaging waste by building a reusable container... View Details
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    Help - Alumni

    Administration (MD/MBA) Master in Business Administration (MBA) Owner/President Management Program (OPM) PhD in Business Economics (PhDBE or PhDBusEc) PhD in Information, Technology, and Management (PhDITM) PhD in Organizational View Details
    • April 2023
    • Article

    The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

    By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde
    Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional forms of measurement error due to their hypothetical nature. This paper seeks to... View Details
    Keywords: Survey Validation; Experiment; Preference Measurement; Surveys; Economics; Behavior; Measurement and Metrics
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    About - Business & Environment

    science more accessible, useful, and intuitive so that everyone on Earth can build their climate literacy and mindfully prepare for the consequences that climate change is likely to bring. Spencer earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Imposter Among Us

    Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services