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  • 2016
  • Article

Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self

By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister
We propose that escape theory, which describes how individuals seek to free themselves from aversive states of self-awareness, helps explain key patterns of materialistic people’s behavior. As predicted by escape theory, materialistic individuals may feel dissatisfied... View Details
Keywords: Materialism; Escape; Self; Negative Emotions; Self-awareness; Emotions; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters

Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose project gets funded,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns

HBS has achieved approximately $300,000 in annual operational savings and earned $330,000 in rebates and grants from utilities and from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The projects have also offset HBS’s greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Primer on Patents

time, examiners were rewarded for issuing more patents, since that brought in more money. The quality of examiners’ work decreased accordingly. This change, combined with the creation of the CAFC, put sand in the system. Patents became too easy to get. Between 1983 and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:ASIA Demand for the program (i.e., the size of the applicant pool and availability of funds) determines the number of GO: ASIA Fellowships granted each year as well as the amount of each fellowship award.... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

Examination at the USPTO The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires public companies to conduct annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation—so-called say on pay; View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

welfare grant policy," Mallika says. "It gave me exposure to many different stakeholders." But the job also revealed weaknesses in the program's approach. "On the one hand, the monthly food rations were essential –... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Estonia, Incorporated

beyond Europe: Kumar presented the project to former Florida governor Jeb Bush during the GOP presidential candidate’s trip to Estonia in June. (Photo courtesy of SAP) Although e-Residents aren’t granted any of the rights of Estonian... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Family Matters

ease that burden, HBS made an investment in Thompson-Woode. Alongside traditional financial aid, which included fellowships and loans, Thompson-Woode was awarded the Forward Fellowship, a $30,000, two-year grant designed to assist... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • Web

Yoan Capote Naturaleza Urbana 2012 | About

Biennale in 2011, and Naturaleza Urbana previously was on view at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2017. Yoan Capote has received numerous awards including an International Fellowship Grant from the Guggenheim Foundation, a UNESCO Prize, and a... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • News

For the Good of Society

granted today—the nonprofit sector and philanthropy—didn’t exist in the mid-‘90s. The idea of being of service to others, to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty, has felt to me as the highest possible calling. What a privilege... View Details
  • December 2019 (Revised November 2023)
  • Background Note

Legal Analysis: Insider Trading Liability

By: Trevor Fetter, Eugene F. Soltes and Grant Wahlquist
There are numerous restrictions against trading on material, nonpublic information (MNPI)—typically called “insider trading.” This note describes the limitations facing managers and investors as enforced civilly and criminally within the United States. View Details
Keywords: Insider Trading; Legal Liability; Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Finance; United States
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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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  • Web

Terms of Use | HBS Online

identity may be performed by a Harvard Business School Online third-party service provider. 5. License Grant to You; Harvard Business School Online's Intellectual Property Rights In consideration for your agreement to these Terms of Use,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Short Takes

regulatory bodies that are taken for granted in the West but are not available in emerging markets. "Companies can create value by developing these systems for themselves," notes Palepu. For example, large diversified companies doing... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • News

Learning to Fight

awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career researchers, making a long-term investment in the most promising scientists in the field. “The grants they provided are high-octane fuel,” says Dr. Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

are working to restrict options, fewer middle managers will get them in order to insure that grants to senior managers won't have to be reduced. In short, top management will receive an even greater proportion of a declining option pie,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Portrait Project

Robyn Tsukayama

collaboration, perseverance, patience, and diversity. Lessons we have all learned in business school, lessons that are executed every day in the environment around us. Nature is so simple, yet mysteriously complicated. She is always there for us; however, we take her... View Details