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Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

By: Matjaž Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti and Attila Szolnoki
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large... View Details
Keywords: Human Cooperation; Evolutionary Game Theory; Public Goods; Reward; Punishment; Tolerance; Self-organization; Pattern Formation; Cooperation; Behavior; Game Theory
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda

By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin
How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints? We analyze Rwanda's historical growth and trade performance and find that Rwanda's high... View Details
Keywords: Export Diversification; Industrialization; Economic Complexity; International Trade; Rwanda; Diversification; Trade; Transportation; Developing Countries and Economies; Rwanda
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  • June 2014
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The Price of Wall Street's Power

By: Gautam Mukunda
Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their companies' best interests, in response to pressure from Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a... View Details
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    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

    In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
    • 11 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

    Keywords: by Bo Becker, Daniel B. Bergstresser & Guhan Subramanian; Financial Services
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
    • 10 Nov 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

    Keywords: by André C. Martínez Fritscher & Aldo Musacchio
    • 10 Jul 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Persuasive Appeal of Stigma

    Keywords: by Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney & Dan Ariely
    • April 2025
    • Case

    Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (A)

    By: Linda A. Hill, James I. Cash and Lydia Begag
    Joe Mazzulla's leadership journey with the Boston Celtics began in 2016 when he served as an assistant coach for their NBA G-League affiliate. In 2019, he was promoted to a "behind-the-bench" assistant coaching role with the Celtics, before being asked to become the... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Change Management; Communication; Values and Beliefs; Decision Making; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Boston
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    • March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
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    The Trouble with TCE

    By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
    Trichloroethylene, or TCE, was a chemical used by tens of thousands of businesses in the United States. It was an affordable tool for many. Yet, TCE had been associated with important health risks, including cancer and autoimmune disease. TCE potentially posed other... View Details
    Keywords: Trichloroethylene; Toxicity; Lobbying; Chemicals; Health Disorders; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Bride Price and the Returns to Education

    By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
    Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In... View Details
    Keywords: Zambia; Indonesia
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior

    Substantial research with adult populations has found that selfish impulses are less likely to be pursued when decisions are publicly observable. To the best of our knowledge, however, this behavioral regularity has not been systematically explored as potential... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Age Characteristics; Behavior; Decisions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Announcements; Situation or Environment
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    • 03 Dec 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Ginger Jin, University of Maryland

    • 08 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 8, 2015

    agencies to promote psychological science in the spirit of President Obama's order. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50170 How Do Customers Respond to Increased Service Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

    through fast-track promotion programs and their colleagues don’t. So, in discussing a promotion or a work-related reward, a manager might consider tossing in a setback encountered earlier in the person’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

    personal experience and observation. When asked to imagine receiving a promotion at work, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. ©iPhoto “We wondered if women may think about things that men don’t,” says Brooks.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 27 Jul 2020
    • Book

    Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

    meant a good deal to them, based on earlier experiences in their lives. Some asked themselves what kind of legacy, however modest, they wanted to leave behind before deciding what to do. Reflection promotes growth Reflection, Badaracco... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    The Exchange: Help Wanted

    Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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    Business History - Faculty & Research

    American chemical industries until the 1970s, when the two German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in corporate culture aimed at View Details
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    Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

    Impact, and Management in Business. Learn More about what you earn What Learners are Saying I got promoted to a senior project coordinator role just weeks after finishing the course, so I have had the chance to apply many of the topics... View Details