Behavioral - Publications - Faculty & Research

2023
Working Paper

Behavioral Transmission: Evidence from a Public Health Campaign in Bangladesh

We examine how behavior change transmits across contexts in the setting of hand hygiene in rural Bangladesh. We randomize an edutainment intervention across classrooms to trace schoolto-home transmission in handwashing behavior and randomize the proportion of students... View Details

Keywords: Handwashing; Interventions; Public Health; Health; Behavior; Change; Bangladesh

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2018
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Organizational Behavior Reading: Leading Global Teams

By: Tsedal Neeley

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September 12, 2014
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How Being Filmed Changes Employee Behavior

By: Ethan Bernstein

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2004
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R&D Performance Volatility: A Behavioral Model

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2011 to 2018. His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior,... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Info Reflexivity in Credit Markets By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson & Lawrence Jin APR 2019 Reflexivity is the idea that investors’ biased beliefs affect market outcomes, and that market outcomes in turn affect investors’ beliefs. The authors develop a View Details

2008
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See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People's Unethical Behavior

By: Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman

It is common for people to be more critical of others' ethical choices than of their own. This chapter explores those remarkable circumstances in which people see no evil in others' unethical behavior. Specifically, we explore 1) the motivated tendency to overlook the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives

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2001
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Cognitions and Behavior in Asymmetric Social Dilemmas: A Comparison of Two Cultures and Behavior

By: Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Tetsushi Okmura, Jeanne M. Brett, Don A. Moore, Ann E. Tenbrunsel and Max Bazerman

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Events - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Events Events Conferences Workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction APR 2017 The Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project at Harvard Business School hosted an interdisciplinary conference to explore how understanding... View Details

1977
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A Diagnostic Model for Organizational Behavior

By: D. Nadler and M. Tushman

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior

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August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
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Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (A)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler

This case follows VP of Marketing, Jill Wehunt, and analyst Mark Morse as they tackle a predictive analytics project to increase sales in the Mom & Baby unit of a nationally recognized retailer, PriceMart. Wehunt observed that in the midst of the chaos that surrounded... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction

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Data - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Data The BFFS Project maintains and disseminates datasets produced by active faculty affiliated with the project. Select your area of interest by topic area below for visualizations and access to excel downloads. If you have any questions or requests for data, please... View Details

17 Mar 2020
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From Sweetheart to Scapegoat: Brand Selfie-Taking Shapes Consumer Behavior

Keywords: by Reto Hofstetter, Gabriela Kunath, and Leslie K. John

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Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

By: Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber

There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Behavior

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