Economic Psychology - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Nicholas Bloom, Brian Lucking, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen

2010
Working Paper

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

This paper describes how the gaming of society's rules by corporations contributes to the problem of institutional corruption in the world of business. "Gaming" in its various forms involves the use of technically legal means to subvert the intent of society's rules in... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Civil Society or Community; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Trust; Law; Performance; Investment Funds; Private Sector; Behavior; Relationships; Goals and Objectives

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04 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021

2020 was a year we won’t soon forget. Individuals and organizations around the globe were faced with unprecedented challenges that pushed their creativity, resolve, and resilience to the limits. We faced a global health pandemic, an View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the... View Details

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns? By: Froot, Kenneth A., Namho... View Details

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

unintentionally undermined the intended admissions policy—led to the elimination of Boston’s walk zones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52937 May 2017 American Economic Review Stable and Strategy-Proof... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
News

I Gave at the Office

Julian Zlatev and Christine Exley (Image by John Ritter) Both Associate Professor Christine Exley and Assistant Professor Julian Zlatev apply the tools of their research to examine a simple question: What makes people give? Exley became interested in the topic as a... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Lucerne; Roland Rüppell, of Simon-Kucher & Partners; and John, of Harvard. What could possibly go wrong? To better understand how temporary sharing affects whether and what... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

March 2012
Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai

The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States

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December 2001
Article

Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Groups in Mexico's Early Industrialization, 1878-1913

By: Noel Maurer and Tridib Sharma

Keywords: History; Rights; Groups and Teams; Reputation; Property; Developing Countries and Economies; Mexico

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June 2020
Article

The Isolated Choice Effect and Its Implications for Gender Diversity in Organizations

By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai and Katherine L. Milkman

We highlight a feature of personnel selection decisions that can influence the gender diversity of groups and teams. Specifically, we show that people are less likely to choose candidates whose gender would increase group diversity when making personnel selections in... View Details

Keywords: Behavior And Behavioral Decision Making; Organizational Studies; Decision Analysis; Economics; Decision Making; Behavior; Analysis; Organizations; Diversity; Gender

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23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2010
Teaching Note

Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)

By: Jordan I. Siegel

Teaching Note for 708486. View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Talent and Talent Management; System; Multinational Firms and Management; Motivation and Incentives; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; China

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17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

be. That’s my nature.” Although some inventors will create something and then see if there is a use for it, that wasn’t the case with the Soccket ball: it was created with a specific need in mind. “That’s why it was so important for me to study View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Peoplepower, Inc.: The Republic of the Philippines

By: Noel Maurer

In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for Philippine nurses and other professionals. The same trade agreement, however, means opening the country's... View Details

Keywords: Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Human Capital; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Japan; Philippines

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2011
Article

Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

By: Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu

In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between group size and incentives to contribute in the setting of Chinese Wikipedia, the Chinese language version of an online encyclopedia that relies entirely on voluntary contributions. The group at Chinese Wikipedia... View Details

Keywords: Rights; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing; Behavior; Satisfaction; Size; Government and Politics; Economics; Information Technology Industry; Hong Kong; Taiwan; Singapore

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12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Social Psychology Bulletin The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness By: Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Two samples of more than 4,000... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

Summing Up There is no shortage of explanations for what seems to be a current bull market in writings about leadership, according to respondents to this column. Charles Cullinane attributes it to the economic and national insecurity that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett