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- 15 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy
feel good for the actor.” Their review, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, examines 15 published, pre-registered experiments on prosocial spending and reveals insights about when giving is likely to increase... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building social capital influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment rate and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2025
- Working Paper
Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) offers potential for optimizing sequences of customer interactions by modeling the relationships
between customer states, company actions, and long-term value. However, its practical implementation often faces significant
challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Policy; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning; Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment; Latent Variable Models; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Foreign Direct Investment; Analytics and Data Science
Ma, Liangzong, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza, and Ayelet Israeli. "Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-037, February 2025.
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a leading used-car dealership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
torch relay. Lenovo's sponsorship will doubtless reinforce its brand preference rankings in China. However, around the world, Lenovo hardly wishes to be known as the Chinese PC company that consumers find convenient to boycott. Here are... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
pursue an MBA, the answer was, "No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us." A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening process top schools use to pick students, and a few View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
motivational anchor. Consequently, mail-in rebates either can serve to enhance or to dampen purchase intention depending on a consumer's underlying motivation. In other words, rebates offer consumers a means to justify a preferred course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
monitored and optimally maintained. Amazon Web Services and IBM are some of the leaders in the platform-as-a-service (PasS) market. To be clear, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all model when it comes to subscription-based revenue streams,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
to get caught, the less likely they are to get paid. So just by paying more slowly, it seems to be possible to reduce the number of bad affiliates and thereby reduce waste and increase profit. My paper's main contribution is in presenting a methodology. How to compute... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
the race and gender of a new appointment to the demographics of the departing member of a group. “People are otherwise likely to choose replacements who demographically resemble their predecessors.” This preference for maintaining the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Heterogeneity and Redistribution Authors:Benjamin Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Preferences over consumption and leisure play no role in the standard optimal tax model, which attributes all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
for a strategic plan, not a detailed document engraved in stone, but a clear sense of strategic direction and vision that will have excited them sufficiently to warrant entrusting you with the CEO role. Once you start implementing... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
distinguishing between direct and complementary spillovers, we examine (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance in cardiovascular care (direct spillovers) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
features of relational pluralism inside and across organizations. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for research. August 2013 Psychological Science A 'Present' for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
all-cash package, employee effort dropped dramatically, leading to a 4.36 percent decrease in sales that cost the company millions in lost revenue, Whillans’s article says. The firm may have inadvertently demotivated salespeople who View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
February 2018 Management Science Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women By: Baldiga, Nancy R., and Katherine Baldiga Coffman Abstract—Sponsorship programs have been proposed as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
optimal schedules. Managers who matched the gender of workers were 59 percent more likely to list scheduling as the most important part of their responsibilities for store performance. Plus, female managers were 13 percent more likely to... View Details