Behavior Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in equilibrium, as long-term rates... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

and changes in the practitioner community that we were drawn to try to operationalize our thinking into recommendations that would allow the actors to do things differently, and dramatically increase the value we could achieve from all... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55448 January 2019... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

to stop chasing stock price and shareholder value. Maybe they shouldn't have as many users. Maybe they have to expunge a lot of those users and clean up their site a lot more. Kenny: You review that decision to go public. Was that a mistake? Is that driving some of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can play on behalf of agents in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

motivations by plotting them on the two axes. The resulting location is a qualitative self-assessment and judgment of what is the driving behavior rather than a precise calculation. Figure 2: Cross-Sector Collaboration Motivational... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

networks. If Posse defined its impact as changing the demographic makeup of the leadership of professions such as law, business, medicine, and education, then perhaps it should continue to target only the most selective colleges. The case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
Teaching Note

Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details

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November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details