human behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

2025
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Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts

By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi and David Laibson

We study the introduction of a choice architecture design intended to increase short-term savings among employees at five U.K. firms. Employees were offered the opportunity to opt into a payroll deduction program that auto-deposits funds from each paycheck into a... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Compensation and Benefits; Well-being; Behavior; Investment Funds; Employees; United Kingdom

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01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

physical proximity and virtual connection, and the increasing human tendency to isolate oneself. You write that this moment represents a rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

a strange human tendency to value effort independent of outcome," says Norton. "If you appear to be working hard and sweating, people will assume you are doing a good job." There's an app for that Buell and Norton put that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2011
News

Faculty Books

how we act unethically without meaning to. They demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior.... View Details

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

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the ‘Open’ Workspace on View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

adaptive benefits of synchrony, including neural efficiency and the release of a reward signal that promotes future social interaction. In nature, neural synchrony yields behavioral synchrony. Humans use... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

"Our goal is to provide products and services that heal and uplift humanity while also generating healthy profits," he says. The Sikh lifestyle encourages daily yoga, meditation, and prayer; religious tolerance; and "recognizing the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

15 Nov 2020
News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration discuss the news of the day and what it means for business. Their conversation is smart and well-informed, but also relaxed and funny—which underlines the value of the podcast medium. “Podcasts... View Details

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

nonprofit counterparts. “One of the roles we have to play is getting people to see the humanity of the other,” Crespin observes. In the honey-bee world, Crespin came up with the idea of having beekeepers, farmers, crop experts, and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

hassle out of moving and furnishing a new residence. The runner-up spot went to Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1972) and his company, Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc., which has developed a new system to extend the viability of human organs and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Aug 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Consumers Punish Firms that Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty, and Michael Norton

13 Apr 2021
News

Managing a Top Performer Who Alienates Their Colleagues

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

seeking asylum who bring different skills and behaviors than immigrants. Germany’s problems, opportunities, and solutions are so different from those of the US, that its “model” for handling new arrivals has limited application. That’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Climate Action): “Find something you really love and then get good at it, really specialized. That specialized could either be in a subject matter - you could be an expert in water, methane, or lots of other area - or you could be a specialist in communications or... View Details

02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

behaviors and settings could have as great an influence as the content itself. One respondent wrote, "...values should be modeled by the instructors in how they prepare and deliver content, the time and value they give their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2004
News

The New Global Business Manager

Companies are finally recognizing that being global is about accessing scarce resources — and that the scarcest of all is the human resource, particularly management. The assumption that “all the smart, capable people were born within a... View Details

Keywords: Management

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance Authors: Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Andy J. Yap Publication: Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Humans and other animals express power through open,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2021
Article

The Effects of Quota Frequency: Sales Performance and Product Focus

By: Doug J. Chung, Das Narayandas and Dongkyu Chang

This study investigates the comprehensive and multidimensional effects of quota (goal) frequency on sales force performance. We develop a theory of salespeople’s behavior—aggregate effort and the product type focus—in response to the temporal length of a sales-quota... View Details