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  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

unionization In setting out to explain the differences in unionization rates by location, the researchers noticed that state-to-state union levels differed before and after the 1930s. Whether a state had a percentage of unionized... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Effective Capital Market Communications

    Hutton's most recent research and cases examine how managers enhance the credibility and effectiveness of their financial reports and voluntary disclosures. Her most recent working paper, "Effective Voluntary Disclosure" (co-authored with Greg Miller, HBS, and Douglas... View Details
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Do Sell-Side Stock Analysts Exhibit Escalation of Commitment?

    By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman
    This paper presents evidence that when an analyst makes an out-of-consensus forecast of a company's quarterly earnings that turns out to be incorrect, she escalates her commitment to maintaining an out-of-consensus view on the company. Relative to an analyst who was... View Details
    Keywords: Escalation Of Commitment; Stock Market; Updating; Behavioral Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • January–February 2024
    • Article

    The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

    By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
    Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions
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    • 11 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

    • 23 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

    features a regime-switching short-rate model. We evaluate the out-of-sample performance of our model in terms of forecasting ability and coverage properties and find that it... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

    insufficient room to collaborate. Zhu and his collaborators predict that as digitization increasingly de-couples hardware and software in many industries, corporate frenemies... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
    • 20 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

    policy instruments, and defaults. On the other hand, understanding the precise mechanisms underlying consumer losses is essential to predicting the impact of mechanism policies aimed primarily at reducing... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

    survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Apr 1996
    • News

    Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

    The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we report on Professor Howard H. Stevenson's examination of View Details
    • 23 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

    arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • March 2025
    • Article

    Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field

    By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
    Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
    Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
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    • Web

    Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

    HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Course Number 1504 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper Overview: BSSE at... View Details
    • 20 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

    of the sector. Educational Objectives Develop an informed view on the history of and recent dramatic changes in how the space sector functions, including the evolving relationship between public and private... View Details
    • November 2024
    • Article

    Perceptions About Monetary Policy

    By: Michael D. Bauer, Carolin Pflueger and Adi Sunderam
    We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time,... View Details
    Keywords: Monetary Policy; Policy; Interest Rates; Perception; Economy; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 29 May 2020
    • Op-Ed

    How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

    COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
    Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • 25 Jul 2017
    • First Look

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

    cast may deviate dramatically from pure QV predictions because of the complex and refined nature of equilibrium play. Most plausibly, voting behavior and outcomes would be... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Real Credit Cycles

    By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer and Stephen J. Terry
    We incorporate diagnostic expectations, a psychologically founded model of overreaction to news, into a workhorse business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. A realistic degree of diagnosticity, estimated from the forecast errors of managers of U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Econometric Models; Business Cycles; Credit
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