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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
helping individuals make wise consumption decisions. Behavioral decision researchers in consumer research have used the rationality criterion to demonstrate consumer bias, but this descriptive research typically has not been applied... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
what management is all about,” he said. Lawrence described how his work on large, complex companies caused him to wonder about organizations outside business, leading to his studies of cities, hospitals, schools, and governments. His most recent book (with Nohria) is... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Summing Up How best is denial managed? Denial is endemic to management. It is a natural part of human nature, closely related to the survival instinct. It can be useful or disastrous. And it can be managed. That sums up at least many of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
important for mechanism designers to think more about creating learnable mechanisms, the clamped second price auction mechanism in fact produces slower learning in human subjects than the standard second price auction mechanism. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
behavior whose work includes corporate consulting. "And I thought, did I ask an awkward question? So I asked again, 'How do you add value to your organization?' I got more nervous laughter." “If you're tied down by your job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
the job incumbent." As Phil Clark put it, "This is similar to the 'chicken or the egg' type of discussion." Don Robertson reminded us that "it is clear that many factors come into play when you start to analyze human... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
go before humans cede the craft of writing to machines—if that ever happens in an organizational context. Overcoming aversion “is the billion-dollar question in front of the AI industry,” says Choudhury, who teamed on the paper with Bart... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
behavior is discretionary. You have the moving parts of human beings delivering services interacting with human beings as customers. Culture is the guiding force; it’s the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
algorithms,” says Polli. “Which means [the algorithms] will recommend an equal number of men and women and a group that is proportional across ethnicity.” This is something, she notes, that an algorithm can just do better. “We like to say that we are more View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Jul 2022
- News
Navigating Peer Relationships While Climbing the Ladder
- 14 Dec 2021
- News
Gaslighting at Work—and What to Do About It
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
Factors line of human resources software, including the ability to flag job descriptions for potentially biased language. The course’s guest speakers also included the CEOs of startups Applied Ltd. and Unitive, both of which use View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
behaviors of the individuals you choose go through the organization like a rifle shot; they can be felt at the line level within months. We can't afford to hire or promote people with the wrong values. It's a path to mediocrity."... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Paying Up for Fair Pay: Consumers Prefer Firms with Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
fallacy of the assumptions on which it is based: a world of rational humans who are unemotional, well-informed, and take the long-term view in economic decisions. In contrast, behavioral economics emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation of scholars with his deep insights about View Details