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  • 2012
  • Chapter

An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction

By: Carlos Medina and Jorge Tamayo
We use data for Medellín, Colombia, to assess the effect of the homicide rate, individual’s perception of security in their neighborhood of residence, and of the effect of their having been victimized, on life satisfaction. We find a negative effect of the homicide... View Details
Keywords: Security; Life Satisfaction; Crime and Corruption; Housing; Safety; Perception; Colombia
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Secrets of Succession (Financial Times, December 6, 2002, with Nicholas Carr)

By: Rakesh Khurana
Boards often choose a new chief executive in response to outside pressures, skewed perceptions and simple convenience. In this extended essay, we argue for a return to objectivity and rigour in the selection process. View Details

    Joshua R. Schwartzstein

    Joshua Schwartzstein is a Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. 

    Professor Schwartzstein is a behavioral economist who focuses on incorporating psychologically realistic assumptions about... View Details

    • 02 Aug 2018
    • News

    Apple’s Trillion-Dollar World

    • 10 Sep 2010
    • News

    Harvard Business School dean is bent on change

    • 05 Sep 2012
    • News

    Study: Countries with more tipping are more corrupt

    • 19 Feb 2019
    • News

    Why the Trolley Dilemma Is a Terrible Model for Trying to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer

    • Research Summary

    General research interests

    • Effects of marketing actions on food choices, energy intake, and obesity.
    • Psychophysics of package and portion size perception and preferences.
    • Mere-measurement and self-generated validity effects in survey research.
    • Attention and choice... View Details
    • Article

    Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

    By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang
    Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation
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    • March 2017
    • Article

    Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status

    By: T. B. Bitterly, A.W. Brooks and M. E. Schweitzer
    Across eight experiments, we demonstrate that humor can influence status, but attempting to use humor is risky. The successful use of humor can increase status in both new and existing relationships, but unsuccessful humor attempts (e.g., inappropriate jokes) can harm... View Details
    Keywords: Status and Position; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Perception
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    • 16 Sep 2011
    • News

    Seeing Yourself as Others See You

    • June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
    • Background Note

    Delivering Strategic Human Resource Management

    By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean and Cate Reavis
    This note reviews the history of the human resources (HR) function and the strategic human resources management (SHRM) movement, wherein HR managers' aspired to be strategic partners with line managers. Reviews practices for implementing a strategic-business-partner... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resources
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      How Do Fairness Definitions Fare? Examining Public Attitudes Towards Algorithmic Definitions of Fairness

      What is the best way to define algorithmic fairness? While many definitions of fairness have been proposed in the computer science literature, there is no clear agreement over a particular definition. In this work, we investigate ordinary people’s perceptions of three... View Details
      • 14 Sep 2017
      • News

      If You Think Everyone Else Has More Friends, You're Not Alone

        Lauren Rice

        Lauren is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Her research interests include finance, development economics, health economics, and industrial organization. He graduated from Harvard College in 2020, where he studied Economics and... View Details
        • 12 Jul 2016
        • News

        Public programs are ‘good economic bets’

        • December 2011
        • Article

        Globalization and Beauty: A Historical and Firm Perspective

        By: G. Jones
        This paper uses the beauty industry to explore the impact of globalization over the very long run. As the first wave of modern globalization started in the nineteenth century, there began a massive homogenization of beauty ideals around the world that has, to some... View Details
        Keywords: Globalization; Business Ventures; Trends; Societal Protocols; Value; Brands and Branding; Perception; Entrepreneurship; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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        • 08 Feb 2019
        • News

        Why didn’t the Panera Cares social experiment pay off?

        • 02 Feb 2015
        • News

        Hard-Charging Uber Tries Olive Branch

        • October 2022
        • Article

        Amplification in the Evaluation of Multiple Emotional Expressions over Time

        By: Amit Goldenberg, Jonas Schöne, Zi Huang, Timothy D. Sweeny, Desmond C. Ong, Timothy Brady, Maria M. Robinson, David Levari, Jamil Zaki and James J. Gross
        Social interactions are dynamic and unfold over time. To make sense of social interactions, people must aggregate sequential information into summary, global evaluations. But how do people do this? Here, to address this question, we conducted nine studies (N = 1,583)... View Details
        Keywords: Social Interactions; Facial Expressions; Emotions; Behavior; Perception
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