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- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
Preferences and Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
political party look if it were true. Study participants expected to boost their reputations by sharing information: Considered accurate. Participants expected sharing true headlines to make them look better than sharing false or misleading headlines. Favoring their... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
context of a large nationwide general retailer. Technical topics include Logistic regression, Ridge & Lasso regression, ROC curve, and picking a cutoff value to optimize a preferred expected value. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
period. Stock indexes can affect behavior by functioning as a source of prestige. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed By: Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler Abstract—What are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Tommy Koh to negotiate the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade agreement serve as an extended case study of a complex, multiparty negotiation that illustrates and further elaborates the concept of a negotiation campaign. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2539774... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
individual differences in social dominance orientation-a preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality-interacts with perceptions of socioeconomic threat to influence the use of hypodescent in categorizing half-Black, half-White... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
type of fashion and adopt the next in order to differentiate themselves from the masses. 'I read Playboy for the articles': Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Download the PDF. We want others to find us good, fair,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
answer, and you never really know for sure. Ultimately, you’ve got to make up your mind in an ambiguous setting and move forward. Students, of course, would prefer for you to tell them the correct answer at the end of class. I never did... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
communication on payoffs in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to be more truthful and revealing than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
In it, they advocate focus, immediate funding, and the U.S. government as shareholder. You might think of it as "Buffett Squared." The government would engage "experienced and disinterested professionals—not politicians" to invest in the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
driver of macroeconomic fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important information relevant to the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
time to run young biotech firms; and so preferred people coming out of Baxter to those who had worked at Abbott or other firms, such as J&J and Merck. This preference is reflected in the archival data I... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
average in order to compete successfully. "Airbnb's pricing suggestions implicitly acknowledge that price is a market-driven outcome," Luca says. "In a market, prices move until supply meets demand. And the data indicate that discriminatory View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
consumption, reviewing research in which people forgo positive physical consumption—and even choose negative physical consumption—in order to engage in conceptual consumption. Finally, we outline how conceptual consumption informs research examining both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
would certainly be helpful. However, my preference would be for a carbon tax or some kind of cap-and-trade regime. We do have the beginnings of that in the renewable portfolio standard approach. With that said, one of the things that I... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
good to have the voices on the left or on the right to make it clear why one direction would be preferable to another. But now, when the extremes are disagreeing over facts and they’re shouting, they don’t give me time to understand... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the closing of hospitals for... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
their point of view. It's not unlike what goes on in Congress. It boils down to a set of beliefs. I prefer a more balanced view of the role of the corporation in society. If the only reason a corporation exists is to make money for its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna