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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
search engine Baidu. Instead of striving and sweating for a good job, a home, and a family, it suggested a minimalist lifestyle of tang ping (“lying flat”). Although the post was later deleted by Communist Party officials, lying flat has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
and eighth graders gang-tackled me. Every day after that, I was kicked, punched, spit on, or pinched, due solely to the color of my skin. Lying in the dirt and grease under a pickup truck was serenity compared to the cruel reality outside... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
You’ll find beehives and rooftop gardens on campus Beehives have been on campus since 2015 as part of a project proposed by our SSAs. Our four hives act as a natural fertilizer, increasing biodiversity on campus. HBS also has nine green roofs across campus, which range... View Details
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Speculation and Credit - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
34.5 cm CD f5 xx A similar allegory to 55, with the caption: "Les mauvais payeurs l'ont tué." Pictured are an artist, a musician, and a soldier, who have killed another man, lying at their feet. This image inspired many provincial copies,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals
a LSAT course and applied to both HBS and HLS. Now, in 2019, I confess that it is not over – and I’d be lying if I said it was easy. Having advised dozens of veterans applying to the JD/MBA program through Service2School and my personal... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
who didn’t want a breathing tube was lying comfortably on a stretcher, oblivious to her plummeting oxygen levels. I felt terrible because I couldn’t do anything for her, so I decided to FaceTime her son. Her entire extended family was on... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
surgery for a genetic condition. “I was lying in the MRI thinking, ‘I hope they find just the shadow of something suspicious and bad because then the decision won’t be up to me,’” she says. “Afterward, I was like, ‘That’s the craziest,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
father climbed up the ladder to clear the roof. My father remembers it as a blur, but in an instant he was lying in the driveway with the excruciating pain of a shattered hip and broken wrist. Surrounded by only the snow piles of our... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- News
Capital Murder
the focus of intense media scrutiny after lying to investigators about his relationship with Chandra Levy, a 23-year-old whose remains were found one year after her disappearance in May 2001. Witnessing the fallout from those events... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
form of cheating, stealing, and lying was completely unacceptable. My father, for example, would never charge a personal expense as a business expense. One of my first jobs when I was 15 was keeping the books for his firm, and he was very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
effectively force all securitizations on the balance sheet. Since the new rules treat banks as if they have 100 percent of the risk of loss, they must put up capital as if that were true. So we’ve gone from one extreme to another, with the reality View Details
- July 31, 2017
- Article
A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS
By: Marcella Alsan, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson and Vincent C. Marconi
Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence.
Design: Single-center pilot randomized clinical trial and a... View Details
Keywords: Adherence; Antiretroviral Therapy; Behavioral Economics; Commitment Contract; Financial Incentives; HIV-1 Virologic Suppression; Health Disorders; Motivation and Incentives
Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson, and Vincent C. Marconi. "A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS." AIDS 31, no. 12 (July 31, 2017): 1765–1769.
- 31 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How to Come Out at Work
He also added that in addition to more awareness about heteronormative assumptions, for LBGTQ+ folks, coming out as early as you feel comfortable can be helpful. “If you start out lying or fibbing, it is hard to pull back,” he said. “Do... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
and Sara Moore, who connected the dots between neural activity and success in the music industry. In a seminal lab experiment, teenagers listened to a series of new, relatively unknown songs while lying inside an fMRI machine. The... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
"The ghosts of the past are always lying in wait to haunt us." We have two ghostly words for Microsoft: Windows Vista. It's been nearly six years since the launch of that version of Windows, but harried IT managers may never... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
you run on the hedonic treadmill, and that’s why your brain lies to you and says, “Do it again. Do it again. Do it again.” It’s interesting that a cocaine addict’s brain is lying to him and a success addict’s brain is View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details