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  • June 2013
  • Article

What Is Privacy Worth?

By: Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie K. John and George Loewenstein
Understanding the value that individuals assign to the protection of their personal data is of great importance for business, law, and public policy. We use a field experiment informed by behavioral economics and decision research to investigate individual privacy... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Valuation; Ethics; Identity
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  • September 2017
  • Article

It Doesn't Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking

By: K. Huang, M. Yeomans, A.W. Brooks, J. Minson and F. Gino
Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate the role of an understudied conversational... View Details
Keywords: Question-asking; Liking; Responsiveness; Conversation; Natural Language Processing; Interpersonal Communication; Behavior
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  • April 29, 2020
  • Article

How Should We Allocate Scarce Medical Resources?

By: Max Bazerman, Regan Bernhard, Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang and Netta Barak-Corren
Who should get a ventilator if there aren’t enough to go around? Research on decision making leads to three concrete guidelines that policy-makers and physicians can use to make fair choices when allocating scarce, life-saving resources. The key to making fair and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Resource Allocation; Decision Making; Policy; Fairness; Ethics
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  • May 2008
  • Article

When Winning Is Everything

By: Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan
In the heat of competition, executives can easily become obsessed with beating their rivals. This adrenaline-fueled emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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    Erik Stafford

    Erik Stafford joined the faculty at HBS in July 1999, where he has taught finance in the required and elective curricula of the MBA Program and in the CFA Investment Management Workshop.

    Erik's research efforts focus on investment management, capital... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • September 1992 (Revised July 1994)
    • Case

    MEM Company, Inc.: English Leather

    By: Frank V. Cespedes and Laura Goode
    In 1992, the president of MEM (a producer of personal care products, including men's fragrances) considered a redeployment of field sales efforts and changes in sales compensation policies. Any changes, moreover, must consider the context of strategic decisions... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 13 Feb 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    When Gender Changes the Negotiation

    behavioral biases. When competition is high. Competitive negotiations can act as gender triggers, consistent with societal expectations that men are more likely than women to be competitive and to succeed in competitive environments.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
    • March 1997
    • Case

    BioTransplant, Inc.: Initial Public Offering, January 1996

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Alexander Tsai
    Examines the decision to go public. BioTransplant is an early stage biotechnology company that must decide how to finance its research and development. The pros and cons of public offerings are analyzed versus alternative financing sources. View Details
    Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Financing and Loans; Research and Development; Going Public
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    • 26 Jun 2013
    • News

    The Power of a ‘Project Beard’ and Other Office Rituals

    • 08 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Delay as Agenda Setting

    Keywords: by James J. Anton & Dennis A. Yao
    • 18 Jul 2014
    • News

    “The Promise of Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment; What Does the Evidence Say?;”

      Eva J. Sudol

      Eva Sudol is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching Finance 1 in the required curriculum of the MBA program. She is also a Retired Partner at the Capital Group, a global investment management company, where she worked from 1994 – 2023 as an... View Details

      • 17 Oct 2024
      • Video

      Behind the Research: Lumumba Seegars

      • 15 Nov 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

      how does the founder of a social venture decide to create a hybrid rather than a traditional charity? New research suggests the decision has a lot to do with the founder’s gender. "in communities where... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 17 Oct 2024
      • Video

      Behind the Research: Tiona Zuzul

      • 20 Apr 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

      can use similar strategies to keep our "want" self from dominating more reasoned decision making. Research on the widespread phenomenon of escalation of commitment—our reluctance to walk away from... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      Investment Management

      Professor Chacko's research looks into the portfolio choice decisions of individuals and institutions. He is particularly concerned with optimal portfolio choice and consumption decisions in a dynamic framework. His work looks at how economic agents make these... View Details
      • 30 Apr 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

      researchers were inspired to investigate the link between anger and guilt five years ago after discussing true crime documentaries and the dynamics of the falsely accused being interviewed by police. “As View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 14 Feb 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: February 14

      characterized by some boundary conditions (Study 6). We discuss the theoretical contribution of this work to research on moral regulation and ethical behavior. "CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 06 May 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

      understand what makes high-performing global teams tick. Working with a high-tech company headquartered in the US, the researchers studied two pairs of teams considered stars within the company. Both global teams had a lot in common in... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding