Investment Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2024
News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

complete information about Africa,” Clarke says, “the ignorance will dissipate. I think the desire to engage with Africans becomes real.” Clarke launched the site in 2010, giving up the certainty and rewards of her position as a managing director of Goldman Sachs’s... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

percent of Hong Kong's exports involve China either as a source or market, and 60 percent of the total investment in China is channeled from the territory. In addition, he said, Hong Kong is an outward-looking economy that serves a wider... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Apr 2002
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New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network

their choice of industry and function. It's a tough year - you can't dress it up." Industries that have been hit hardest by the economic downturn include consulting and investment banking, two areas that traditionally hire a significant... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2018
News

Learning About Leadership

years––in addition to my two years at HBS––being a really critical student of company management teams. One of the great things about being an equity analyst is you get to meet with lots of CEOs and lots of CFOs of the companies that you're View Details

Keywords: Finance

22 Jul 2021
News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

Research focus Michelle: Ryan and I are both interested in deeply understanding what happens when customers interact with an organization’s operating system. Insights about customer behavior can influence a company to operate differently... View Details

11 Jan 2019
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Case Study: Beating Bias

video? If News Bling could establish itself as the major news outlet for the digital generation, the product and market would dwarf its current vision. But investing in video would also require venture funding, and it’s been self-funded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 Jun 2008
News

The First HBS Class Notes

in 1910, it included a page of staff-written "Personal Items" about alumni, reporting job changes, addresses, and marriages. The first item — "M.B.A. '14—Hugh D. Hite is manager of the Chicago office of Priester, Quail & Cundy, Inc., View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Career Coach

Eileen Stephan

of career, family life and a family sporting goods business.Work Experience: Citigroup, Global Head of Graduate Recruitment and Program Management (covering Investment Banking, Private Banking, Sales & Trading, Technology, Operations,... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management; Investment Management

01 Sep 2013
News

The Joy of Spending

upfront and months in advance allows you to forget about the pain of paying and gives you ample opportunity to anticipate the trip. Invest in Others Some of Norton and Dunn's first experiments involved giving people money and asking them... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

@Soldiers Field

professionals and graduates of HBX CORe is planned for early next year. (photos courtesy of Courtesy Jonathan Coslet and Sadhguru) (photos courtesy of Courtesy Jonathan Coslet and Sadhguru) For “West Meets East: A Conversation on Leadership,” Jonathan Coslet (MBA... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

New Releases

the social environment on creative motivation and behavior in a variety of contexts, including the organization. From an ongoing multiyear research project into the nature of creativity and how social factors influence its manifestations,... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

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

Web

Collections | Working Knowledge

strategies for competitive leadership. Strategy and Innovation Insights on innovation: sustaining creativity, digital transformation, and essential tech principles for leaders. Finance and Investing Finance insights on inflation, crypto... View Details

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

devices, such as smart phones and tablets. Another question to be answered: Where are people visiting when they are not on the top sites that most everyone looks at? With some 4 million URLs in the dataset, Greenstein wants to explore consumer View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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