Validation Study - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions, and financial fraud, according... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

May 2021
Article

Choice Architecture in Physician–patient Communication: A Mixed-methods Assessment of Physicians' Competency

By: J. Hart, K. Yadav, S. Szymanski, A. Summer, A. Tannenbaum, J. Zlatev, D. Daniels and S.D. Halpern

Background: Clinicians’ use of choice architecture, or how they present options, systematically influences the choices made by patients and their surrogate decision makers. However, clinicians may incompletely understand this influence.... View Details

Keywords: Choice Architecture; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competency and Skills

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30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

15 Apr 2015
HBS Seminar

Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School

20 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

It doesn’t matter if you’re crafting a pitch for tech investors, consumers, or election-season voters. If you want your target audience to remember your message the next day, tell a story. That’s one of the findings of a new study by... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract In this paper we use highly disaggregated data on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

from anger. Then, they looked at whether displays of anger related to actual guilt. Anger isn’t a good look The authors conducted several studies to examine these questions. In one experiment, the researchers showed participants clips... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

four leading global food safety firms gives their testing a certain level of external validity that they may not enjoy by doing their own testing, although big companies such as Nestle remain strongly committed to in-house monitoring. In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract—What is the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

decline either the same as or more than myopic (value-decreasing) repurchases. Results using event study returns and repurchase prices corroborate these effects. Overall, the findings are consistent with increased repurchase disclosure... View Details

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

includes both stockholders and stakeholders]. It should, and can, rest on valid assumptions and fundamental values that allow us to build a more inclusive and sustainable economic future—one in which we don't have to bribe executives to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

Can business leaders harness the star power of celebrities? It might depend on their jawline. A recent study parses 12,000 faces for attributes linked to charisma and proposes a framework to figure out who has it and who doesn’t. Why some... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

Web

Help - Alumni

(SEPSA) Veterans' Certificate (VC) Visitor for Individual Studies (VIS) Where can I find contact information for sectionmates or classmates, or get a list of fellow alumni? Go to the HBS Alumni Directory to search for classmates by name,... View Details

03 Oct 2023
Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

reflection of that service. So I have validated you, which is one of the most important lessons I learned in 25 years of The Oprah Show is that everybody is looking to be validated. Brooks: That's for sure. Winfrey: So, it's not just... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

01 Dec 2023
News

The Imposter Among Us

idea exploded in popular culture; somewhere along the way, it became known as the “imposter syndrome,” which incorrectly suggests it’s a personal pathology. Studies suggest that as many as 70 percent of us might experience this... View Details

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

Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

financial institutions design verifiable and achievable climate targets, and how they assess and validate those targets. He also discusses how the SBTi is transitioning from focusing on technical assistance and assessments to a... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

showed that 72 percent of Gen Zers were considering leaving their jobs in 2023, while a January 2023 study by management consultancy Oliver Wyman found that 70 percent of those who described themselves as “loyal” to their employers were... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

structure Significantly lower Although some of the factors—like comfort with uncertainty and the ability to identify opportunities—seemed like obvious markers for entrepreneurial success, the study built a statistically reliable and View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

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