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  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

School, and a leader in the field of change management. "Even in an era where young techies are looking to get the hottest and latest, people are resistant to change," she says. Microsoft's launch of the new operating system... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products
  • June 2013
  • Article

What Is Privacy Worth?

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Valuation; Ethics; Identity
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  • 2013
  • Book

Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain

By: Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller and Vincent Pons
From January to May 2012, campaign activists supporting François Hollande knocked at five millions doors, making this door-to-door effort the largest in Europe to date. This project was formed by Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons, who had met at the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Political Elections; United States; Europe
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When Feeling Skillful Impairs Coordination in a Lottery Selection Task

By: Anna Dorfman, Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Simone Moran
Choosing a major field of study to secure a good job after graduation is a tacit coordination problem that requires considering others' choices. We examine how feeling skillful, either induced (Experiment 1) or measured (Experiment 2), affects coordination in this type... View Details
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  • June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Background Note

An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

new beginnings and new adventures.  But whereas at the start of my HBS experience I had looked around at a room full of strangers, now I looked around and saw countless friends.  And here we were all together, having come full circle;... View Details

    Anthony Mayo

    Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the Organizational Behavior Unit of Harvard Business School (HBS).  He currently teaches and serves as the course head for... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; airline; education industry; nonprofit industry; publishing industry; service industry
    • 16 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

    and diversity of the AAPI experience and inspire hope for a world of empathy, compassion, and courage. Iris Yu (MBA 2023) My family story is one of many variations on the theme of the American Dream. My parents immigrated from China to... View Details
    • 29 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

    The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and beyond graduation. In this feature, we highlight the View Details
    • 2010
    • Mimeo

    An Analysis of the Impact of 'Substantially Heightened' Capital Requirements on Large Financial Institutions

    By: Anil Kashyap, Jeremy C. Stein and Samuel G. Hanson
    We examine the impact of "substantially heightened" capital requirements on large financial institutions, and on their customers. Our analysis yields three main conclusions. First, the frictions associated with raising new external equity finance are likely to be... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; Equity; Financing and Loans; Credit
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    • 08 Mar 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

    maximization as your standard, most people's sense of success demands high scores in many differing categories. Sometimes these goals contradict each other: Wealth and best friends who love you for yourself, not your money. A generous View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
    • Blog

    What Black Executives Really Want

    executives face fall into three interconnected buckets. Black executives have a sense of isolation, they don't feel they can bring their true selves to work, and they experience a loss of confidence. Other marginalized or underrepresented... View Details
    • March 2010
    • Article

    The Desire to Win: The Effects of Competitive Arousal on Motivation and Behavior

    By: Deepak Malhotra
    The paper theoretically elaborates and empirically investigates the "competitive arousal" model of decision making, which argues that elements of the strategic environment (e.g., head-to-head rivalry and time pressure) can fuel competitive motivations and behavior.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics; Competition
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    • 10 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest

    Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Dan Ariely
    • Research Summary

    Gun Violence in the United States

    By: Deepak Malhotra
    My colleagues and I are studying gun violence from two perspectives.  First, how do events like mass shootings impact gun policy?  Do they have any effect?  We find that they do, but not in the way most people would expect. Second, we are studying which types of gun... View Details
    • 22 Aug 2019
    • Blog Post

    Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

    Moving anywhere is hard – but moving halfway across the world can come with even more challenges. MBA students come to HBS from every corner of the world, some with families, and some having never left their home country or state before. Kate Grosch (MS/MBA 2020)... View Details
    • 18 Sep 2015
    • Blog Post

    A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

    about – at a time when they’re naturally thinking about the next steps in their lives. Last year Peek Weekend expanded to include men and women, specifically those with a STEM or family business background. However, there was still a... View Details
    • December 2023
    • Article

    Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work

    By: Mijeong Kwon, Julia Lee Cunningham and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Intrinsic motivation has received widespread attention as a predictor of positive work outcomes, including employees’ prosocial behavior. In the current research, we offer a more nuanced view by proposing that intrinsic motivation does not uniformly increase prosocial... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Employees
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    • 02 Oct 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Negotiating in Three Dimensions

    directly on the nature of the barriers that you face. When you have a potential deal in mind, we have developed a set of tools to quickly perform what we call a "3-D barriers audit" to determine what barriers stand between you... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace