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    Christopher T. Stanton

    Christopher Stanton is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Professor Stanton's research streams focus on personnel economics, organizational economics, labor markets, and entrepreneurship. His MBA... View Details

    • 25 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Keywords: by Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan & Karim Lakhani; Health
    • Research Summary

    Research

    Professor Cuddy studies the origins and outcomes of how we perceive and are influenced by other people, investigating the roles of variables such as culture, emotions, nonverbal behaviors, and hormone levels. Much of her work focuses on social categories (e.g.,... View Details

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    Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses

    By: Kaivalya Rawal and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision-making, there has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms which can provide recourses to affected individuals. While developing such tools is important, it is even more critical to... View Details
    Keywords: Predictive Models; Decision Making; Framework; Mathematical Methods
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    Family Rituals Improve the Holidays

    By: Ovul Sezer, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Kathleen Vohs
    Rituals are central to family life. Three studies (N = 1098) tested the relationship between family rituals and holiday enjoyment and demonstrated that family rituals improve the holidays because they amplify family closeness and involvement in the experience. In Study... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Behavior; Satisfaction; Family and Family Relationships
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    • March 2006
    • Module Note

    Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

    By: Alan D. MacCormack
    Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design
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    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    large-scale computational genome mining and high-throughput experimental screening to discover and engineer potent, safe enzymes capable of integrating full-length therapeutic genes into desired genomic locations. As a... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

    the time. “It’s all about exploring a different side of yourself and trying things on for size,” DiDonna says. Practice: Sometimes, experimentation is not enough, and a participant wants to practice an activity to see if it would be a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 14 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

    learning, pivoting all along the way. Though it won’t be easy, even perfectionist Type-A personalities must open their minds to a more experimental approach. Those who rely on traditional strategic thinking—an approach one roundtable... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
    • 30 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Temptation at Work

    Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser & Marco Piovesan
    • February 1985
    • Article

    Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers

    By: T. M. Amabile
    72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive... View Details
    Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Personal Characteristics; Situation or Environment
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    Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

    By: Matjaž Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti and Attila Szolnoki
    Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large... View Details
    Keywords: Human Cooperation; Evolutionary Game Theory; Public Goods; Reward; Punishment; Tolerance; Self-organization; Pattern Formation; Cooperation; Behavior; Game Theory
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    Handshaking Promotes Deal-Making by Signaling Cooperative Intent

    By: Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
    We examine how a simple handshake—a gesture that often occurs at the outset of social interactions—can influence deal-making. Because handshakes are social rituals, they are imbued with meaning beyond their physical features. We propose that during mixed-motive... View Details
    Keywords: Handshake; Cooperation; Affiliation; Competition; Negotiation; Nonverbal Communication; Negotiation Participants; Behavior; Communication Intention and Meaning; Negotiation Deal
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    • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
    • Supplement

    Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

    The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
    Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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    Reliable Post hoc Explanations: Modeling Uncertainty in Explainability

    By: Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Sameer Singh and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As black box explanations are increasingly being employed to establish model credibility in high stakes settings, it is important to ensure that these explanations are accurate and reliable. However, prior work demonstrates that explanations generated by... View Details
    Keywords: Black Box Explanations; Bayesian Modeling; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology
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    • November 2018
    • Article

    Worthy of Swift Trust? How Brief Interpersonal Contact Affects Trust Accuracy

    By: Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang
    Organizational scholars have long underscored the positive consequences of trust, yet trust can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Interpersonal Communication; Judgments; Perspective
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

    By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
    In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
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    • 10 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

    for all enrollees) is associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54341 forthcoming Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Religious Shoppers... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 May 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: May 5

    scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and completely controlling for consumer heterogeneity, we demonstrate that bringing your own bags simultaneously increases purchases of environmentally friendly as well as indulgent... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 25 Feb 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design