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Time, Money, and Happiness

By: Cassie Mogilner and Michael I. Norton

We highlight recent research examining how people should manage their most precious resources—time and money—to maximize their happiness. Contrary to people’s intuitions, happiness may be less contingent on the sheer amount of each resource available and more on how... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Money

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01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Jun 2012
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Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

produced one of the most exciting papers that I have worked on." The idea for the paper grew from a conundrum that Bohnet faced when she became faculty director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). Although she'd built a career on using... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

29 Oct 2008
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The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

experiences, not heavy goods for the home. The economic boom of the 1990s fuelled consumption and democratized access to a wider than ever spectrum of goods transforming former luxuries into "must-have" necessities. Millions played the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Sep 2014
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Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

unemployment. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase is controversial. Why is that? Because the conversation is really about much more than a technical debate on the costs and benefits. Most people are aware that the long-term economic... View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

12 Sep 2006
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Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities? Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding, and Toby Stuart Periodical:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2003
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At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them would steal the other fellow’s banana every day from his... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

policy, having served as chief of staff of the National Economic Council and special assistant to President Obama for economic policy; four years later she moved over to Instagram (which Facebook acquired in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 Apr 2010
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works published on their economic history. (When) Are Religious People Nicer? Religious Salience and the 'Sunday Effect' on Pro-social Behavior Author: Deepak Malhotra Publication: Judgment and Decision... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2011
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Greek Drama

of recent debates, trading unprecedented personal jabs and polarizing Greece’s already high-octane political climate even further.” Samaras supports budgetary and economic reforms to improve Greece’s debt situation, but with the country... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2004
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Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS

December. Business was one of several issues touched on by the 61-year-old veteran Communist Party technocrat, an engineer and geologist by training. The second-highest official in China’s hierarchy, Wen is charged with economic oversight... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the business side of peace.” “Peace in the Middle East,” he says, “will not be sustainable if people... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

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Learning from Potentially Biased Statistics: Household Inflation Perceptions and Expectations in Argentina

By: Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

When forming expectations, households may be influenced by perceived bias in the information they receive. In this paper, we study how individuals learn from potentially biased statistics using data from both a natural experiment and a survey experiment during a... View Details

Keywords: Inflation Expectations; Bayesian Estimation; Inflation and Deflation; Information; Household; Behavior; Argentina

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

href="http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/013985181/catalog" target="_self">Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Asians, Blacks, Native Americans, and Whites (book) Nielsen reports on the African American Consumer (search using keywords African American or Black)... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Brazil Banks on Experience

situation today is absolutely viable, Brazil’s economic basics are absolutely solid, and we have conditions to grow,” Meirelles told the New York Times (December 13, 2002). Meirelles headed BankBoston’s Brazil operations from 1984 to 1996... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

the wide range of motivational factors that drive human behavior in an organizational context, including pay, perquisites, promotions, opportunities for skill development, social approval, fairness, stress, emotional states, autonomy,... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Faculty Books

show why these disputes developed, how investments and disputes have changed, and why firms responded differently to crises. They describe how firms, developing countries, and multilateral development organizations can build a conflict-management system balancing the... View Details