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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

You Haven’t Changed a Bit

Photographs by Stuart Cahill and Neal Hamberg Related Links 2010 Fall Reunion Photo Gallery 2010 Reunion Presentations Occasional blustery, rainy weather couldn’t put a damper on the good vibrations emanating from the fall reunion festivities that began on September’s... View Details
Keywords: reunion
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

By: Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending expiration of fixed-term... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Contracts; Behavior; Employment
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  • 18 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer

behavioral science, specifically, behavioral economics, tries to understand consumers as they actually behave and promote changes in their decision making around those biases.... View Details
Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt
  • Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

makers, HBS faculty members, and leading HBS alumni to examine and reflect on the events of the fall of 2008. In preparation for this event, the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project (BFFS) at HBS conducted the 2018 Financial... View Details
  • Article

Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints

By: Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender
We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of credit shocks. Theoretically, we show that credit shocks reduce the value of long-term relative to short-term investments. Empirically, we can therefore compare the reduction of long-term relative to... View Details
Keywords: Credit Constraints; Credit Crunch; Spain; Investment Behavior; Credit Squeeze; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Investment; Credit; Manufacturing Industry; Spain; European Union
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic factors, such as what information is... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2020
  • News

How to (Actually) Change Someone’s Mind

    The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

    This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

    Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou, an assistant professor at London Business School, suggest that luxury goods have an important effect on human behavior that is only now becoming clear—and that may have implications for addressing the continuation of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 07 Sep 2021
    • News

    Embracing Activism for Social Change

    Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens with mental or View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • July 2019 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    Backstage at Boston Ballet

    By: David G. Fubini, Ryan Raffaelli, Begum Agca Okutgen and Julia Kelley
    This case asks students to consider how to prioritize goals when placed in a new leadership role. In August 2014, Meredith “Max” Hodges became the youngest Executive Director (ED) in the Boston Ballet’s 51-year history. In her first year, she was able to claim several... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Managing Change; Strategy Execution; Priorities; Arts; Buildings and Facilities; Decision Making; Theater Entertainment; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Marketing; Price; Fine Arts Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Education Industry; United States; North America; Massachusetts; Boston; New England; Northeastern United States
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    • June 2014
    • Article

    Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds

    By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
    We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt crisis. Using a novel data set of security-level holdings of prime money market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant... View Details
    Keywords: Money Market Mutual Funds; European Sovereign Debt Crisis; Runs; Contagion; Risk Taking; Investment Funds; Financial Crisis; Europe
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    • 16 Mar 2014
    • News

    Strike a Pose, Change Your Life

    Keywords: power posing; nonverbal communication; imposter syndrome
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Change We Can’t Believe In: Distrust of Political Converts

    By: Julian J. Zlatev, Amos Schurr and Nir Halevy
    We propose and test three hypotheses regarding how people respond to political converts— individuals who switch their voting from one political party to another. Across two experiments, using behavioral and attitudinal measures of trust in two different countries, we... View Details
    Keywords: Political Elections; Behavior; Attitudes; Trust
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    • 26 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn

    The case method is a staple of the HBS MBA experience. Pioneered by our faculty, we think it’s the best way to prepare our students for the challenges of leadership. So how does it work? And how does it change how students think? We... View Details
    • 11 Jan 2021
    • News

    An Agile Approach to Change Management

    • 26 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

    flexibly navigate changing environments yet because it does not have a notion of its “self” and what it can do with it. This shortcoming raises questions about whether it’s safe to rely on AI in certain circumstances, such as an... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • 11 Jan 2016
    • News

    Study: Anticipation Changes The Way We Feel About Death

    • June 2018
    • Teaching Note

    Zurich Insurance

    By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane and Joni Coughlin
    This teaching note addresses six cases in the Zurich Insurance series, the overview case (HBS No. 417-035) and five cases focused on particular change efforts (HBS Nos. 417-036 through 417-040).
    Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after... View Details
    Keywords: Managing Change; Organizational Behavior; Diversity Management; Organizational Architecture; Recruiting; Succession Planning; Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Human Capital; Human Resources; Insurance; Leadership; Diversity; Organizational Structure; Recruitment; Leadership Development; Management Succession; Insurance Industry
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