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Inviting Consumers to Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie Consumption

By: Janet Schwartz, Jason Riis, Brian Elbel and Dan Ariely
Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we tested an alternative approach: activating consumers' self-control by having servers ask... View Details
Keywords: Food; Labels; Consumer Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 13 Apr 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management

  • 06 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10 years from now, when his young... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 21 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Fellowship: This fellowship is specifically for first year joint degree students at HKS and HBS. -Zuckerman Fellowship: This fellowship equips people from the fields of medicine, law, and business to provide leadership for the common good... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

decision support tool for Rue La La's daily use. We conduct a field experiment and find that sales do not decrease due to implementing tool recommended price increases for medium and high price point... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • 15 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

    while you are in school, or via study abroad). There are multiple ways to think about them: using a series of opportunities to build your skills and experience towards pivoting into a full-time job that is difficult to get, taking... View Details
    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    away from certain professions: They lack confidence in their ability to compete in fields that men are stereotypically believed to perform more strongly in, such as science, math, and technology. Women are also more reluctant to share... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 Jul 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Name Your Price. Really.

    of experiments—including a field experiment where she posed with students as snack bar employees—Santana found that by subtly manipulating the environment, sellers can dramatically change what some buyers... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
    • March 2025
    • Article

    Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

    By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
    The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
    Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 17 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Maria De-Arteaga, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

    • 25 Aug 2015
    • First Look

    First Look Tuesday

    both theories of vicarious learning, as well as the practice of learning from others' experiences in organizations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49499 Blinded by Experience: Prior Experience,... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Pivoting Isn't Enough: Principled Pragmatism and Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures

    By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
    New technology ventures often experience deviations from their original plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how entrepreneurs explain and justify their... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Reorientation; Technology Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Product Development Processes; Organizational Adaptation; Qualitative Methods (General); Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Communication; Entrepreneurship; Alignment; Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to Coordination and Performance

    By: Heidi K. Gardner

    Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members disagree about where each member ranks on the... View Details

    Keywords: Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Perception; Status and Position; Cooperation
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    • 14 Mar 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

    Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz
    • Winter 2016
    • Article

    Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization

    By: Kris J. Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi
    We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Sales; Retail Industry
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    • 2015
    • Book

    What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms

    By: James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser and Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Based on decades of collective field experiences, the authors present anecdotal evidence in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Leadership; Service Operations; Service Delivery
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    • 23 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

    understand the transition I mentioned earlier. We can't begin to comprehend why and how banks began to develop financial services for middle-class Americans in the first place. I see this eclectic approach to my topic as reflecting changes taking place in the View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
    • 13 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 13

    prosocial behavior associated with licensing. The results of a laboratory experiment and a large field experiment converge to support our account. Read the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Aug 2019
    • Blog Post

    The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

    At HBS, an initiative is a group of people committed to change, fueled by research, and driven by the demand to solve societal issues. These communities are made up of faculty, students, and alumni and are connected with practitioners in the given View Details