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  • Article

Nudging: Progress to Date and Future Directions

By: John Beshears and Harry Kosowsky
Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made, without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper assesses past empirical research on nudging and provides recommendations for future work in... View Details
Keywords: Nudge; Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making
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  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

experience suggests it may take several years. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-020.pdf   Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations Authors:David James... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

  Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

  Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52838 July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Stop the Meeting Madness: How to Free Up Time for Meaningful Work By: Perlow, Leslie, Constance Noonan Hadley, and Eunice Eun Abstract—Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox

By: Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote and Flemming Norrgren
We tend to assume that great leaders must make difficult choices between two or more conflicting outcomes. In an interview study with 26 CEOs of top American and European companies (incl. IKEA, Campbell Soups, Nokia, H&M), we find that instead of choosing between... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 11 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People’s Unethical Behavior

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore & Max H. Bazerman
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

They are people who: are "willing and able to make a tough decision based on a gut instinct" (Jason Huang), are "more able to adapt to changing conditions ... because they have a clearer view of the implications of those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

Ashutosh (Ash) Panchang (MS/MBA 2023) grew up in India and Virginia. He received his B.S. from the University of Virginia in Systems Engineering. Today he is a joint degree student pursuing the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences joint degree. Prior to attending HBS,... View Details
  • March 2018
  • Article

How Context Affects Choice

By: Raphael Thomadsen, Robert P. Rooderkerk, On Amir, Neeraj Arora, Bryan Bollinger, Karsten Hansen, Leslie John, Wendy Liu, Aner Sela, Vishal Singh, K. Sudhir and Wendy Wood
Due to its origins in the literature on judgment and decision-making, context effects in marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Situation or Environment; Consumer Behavior
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  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
  • 27 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

businesses over the long run: companies such as Tata Group, founded in India in 1868, or Mexican bakery Grupo Bimbo, started in 1945. What sets these firms apart? What can leaders in developed markets learn from them? In the recent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

prices and expand access to life-saving therapies,” she says. After college, Rabah joined the biotech company Sio Gene Therapies, where she had the opportunity to speak with parents of children with Tay-Sachs disease, an ultra-rare View Details
  • 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

contract) does lead to higher effort for the duration of our job. This subtle but critical difference sheds light on the conditions under which higher wages will lead to reciprocity. We find that the impact of the gift is pronounced for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

to approach their doctors for a prescription. After all, it was not likely the doctor on his or her own would bring up the subject of hair loss with a patient. "Hair loss is not a disease, but you need to make it a credible condition... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

gets lost in this conversation is the extent to which the US needs immigrants. We need their youth, their willingness to work at any job, their productivity, their contributions to a social security system being weighted down by the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jun 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

through a new course for MBA students, Why You Should Care: Creating the Conditions for Excellence, co-taught with Senior Lecturer and venture capital guru Amy Schulman. Together, they created a course unlike any other at the school, both... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and the Case of Hedge Funds Authors:Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt Publication:In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 20, edited by Wesley Sine and Robert David. Institutions and Entrepreneurship. Emerald Press, forthcoming Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace