Investment Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2014
News

Making Big Data Fashionable

get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

how sensitive corporations are likely to be to facing a negative rate of return on their cash holdings. But the goal would be more to trigger behavior that feeds that economy rather than raising revenue for the government. Ideally, firms... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

To develop more effective approaches, he is looking at chemical-manufacturing safety disputes, pollution permit-trading, redevelopment of distressed urban areas, hazardous waste site location problems, and intracorporate negotiation over View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

07 Nov 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

investment hurdle rate on new products to stem the flow. But should all new ideas have the same hurdle rate? How can this help a producer sort the better from worse ideas in advance of bringing them to market? Will we as consumers... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

expectations embedded in a company's stock price. Providing a fundamentally new way to evaluate all stocks, Expectations Investing will set investors on the path to success. Managers can also use the book to devise, adjust, and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Finance

01 Jul 2013
News

The Nature of Business

protecting Adirondack parks, improving fishing practices—in his new book, Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, coauthored by conservation biologist Jonathan S. Adams. One of TNC's strategies, as... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

2025
Chapter

Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts

By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi and David Laibson

We study the introduction of a choice architecture design intended to increase short-term savings among employees at five U.K. firms. Employees were offered the opportunity to opt into a payroll deduction program that auto-deposits funds from each paycheck into a... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Compensation and Benefits; Well-being; Behavior; Investment Funds; Employees; United Kingdom

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01 Feb 2001
News

High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS

presentations to a group of some three hundred top investment professionals. Presenters spoke of markets with multibillion-dollar potential, margins over 70 percent, eighteen-month paths to profitability, and, of course, products... View Details

Keywords: Singleton, Laura; Springboard 2000

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical Engineering LESSONS FROM HBS “The Human View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson

When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat:... View Details

Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance

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

16 Aug 2022
News

HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

Japan Fellowship lit the fire for me. Now I want to light other candles.” The HBS Japan Fellowship relies entirely on contributions from alumni for its funding. One such donor, Thierry Porte (MBA 1982), calls the fellowship “an investment... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2006
News

Utopian Vision

It’s one thing to dream of utopia; it’s another to actually invest in one. That’s what Boykin Curry (MBA ’94), a New York money manager, has accomplished by convincing an A-list of successful friends to buy into what he calls a “Creative... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Real Estate

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

lump sums to estimations of RVU volumes if the crisis didn’t happen. My hope is that this crisis will provide the opportunity to rethink physician compensation in a way that maps physician incentives to the behaviors that generate value... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

these investments motivated consumers to plunk down their credit cards or fill out an application for a service. That's why the Internet has been such a godsend to companies, says Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

"The best way to go about it in the corporate world is to have good leaders who can lead by example with positive and solution-oriented attitudes." Kevin Bowe added, "Attitudes can be learned, and winning behaviors... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning... View Details

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

04 Jan 2016
News

Taking Time Out for a Challenge

hit the small African nation in 2014. “Having watched Sierra Leone and its neighbors make great strides over the last decade to consolidate peace, grow their economies, and invest in public services, I knew they remained among the poorest... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

forms of capitalism." Citing examples of Dutch and British investments abroad, Cole Woodson comments, "I find the question to be somewhat delinquent ... to the tune of several centuries." He adds that to the extent that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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