behavioral economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting in 1979, China began to industrialize and create the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

2009
Working Paper

Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

Jun 2025 The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation Daniella Diniz 14 May 2025 Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations 31 Mar 2025 Maggie... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

titled "Foundations of a Theory of Organizations," students gain insights into human behavior through reading Daniel Goleman's popular work Emotional Intelligence. They expand their perspective on the use of knowledge in society by... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

heart of good and wise leadership. In the following excerpt, Lawrence describes how various forms of globalization—classic trading, international sales, and transnational outsourcing—reveal examples of good, bad, and misguided leadership View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

06 Dec 2018
News

Cold Call Horror Stories

the afternoon course, which is Organizational Behavior and the professor walks in and says, “Scott, will you open the case today?” And that one, I learned after, was a setup—that everyone thought, wouldn’t it be hilarious if the third... View Details

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

institutional theory, and economic theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry Authors:Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Fellows | MBA

Computer Science, Secondary in Economics Lowell 2023 Cohort 4 Palis Pisuttisarun Computer Science/Philosophy, Secondary in Mind, Brain, Behavior Adams 2024 Cohort 5 Trisha Prabhu Government (Tech Science),... View Details

29 Nov 2017
News

Inbox: From Das’s Desk

An old adage about volunteers cites the value they bring to organizations as including “wealth, work, and wisdom.” These “three Ws” define the dedicated alumni body here at HBS. Although being a donor is certainly critical to sustaining the View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
News

Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS

from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a small part of a much, much bigger problem.” He explained that the country's principal View Details

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

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

D. KC, and F. Gino Abstract—Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

Selling Digital Privacy

from mistreatment. The solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing View Details

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

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

if unsuccessful, would have little economic impact. Little did Congress realize that true believers in deregulation, like Alfred Kahn, a Cornell economics professor whom Carter had appointed as chairman of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett