Publications

April 2023
Article

The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences

By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman and Uwe Sunde

Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional forms of measurement error due to their hypothetical nature. This paper seeks to... View Details

Keywords: Survey Validation; Experiment; Preference Measurement; Surveys; Economics; Behavior; Measurement and Metrics

June 2017
Article

When Novel Rituals Lead to Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology

By: Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton and Michael Inzlicht

Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked to the cultural evolution of large-scale group cooperation. Here we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can... View Details

Keywords: Ritual; Intergroup Dynamics; Intergroup Bias; Neural Reward Processing; Open Data; Open Materials; Preregistered; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Cooperation

Article

Financial Incentives for Exercise Adherence in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

By: Marc S. Mitchell, Jack M. Goodman, David A. Alter, Leslie K. John, Paul I. Oh, Maureen T. Pakosh and Guy E. Faulkner

Context Less than 5% of U.S. adults accumulate the required dose of exercise to maintain health. Behavioral economics has stimulated renewed interest in economic-based, population-level health interventions to address this issue. Despite widespread implementation of... View Details

Keywords: Exercise; Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

point is the most crucial—employee trust is hard to regain once it’s lost. E = Execute your organization’s post-COVID workforce plan in a timely fashion and evaluate your progress constantly. Ultimately, the... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark View Details

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

high-performing salespeople. In addition, we find no effects in product returns with regard to a change in quota frequency. With quotas set over shorter time horizons, the high-performing salespeople focus mainly on low-ticket products,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Feb 2017
News

Growing and Competing at the Local Level

the backbone services to places like GE, Ford, and GM. “The impact that I’m hoping to have is to start aligning the resources that are focused on the economy, both within our state and nationally. Things are... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time By: Whillans, A.V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

evacuation took place, four people at a time clinging to a "basket," a large donut shaped contraption with nets through which we laced our arms, as a crane lowered us 400 feet to the boat's deck. The lengthy (eight-hour) trip... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews By: Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal Abstract—This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

intellectual capital. And intellectual property laws need to be rewritten to allow companies a longer time to reap the benefits of their inventions. Does Europe have a future as a location for clinical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

May 2022
Article

How Status of Research Papers Affects the Way They Are Read and Cited

By: Misha Teplitskiy, Eamon Duede, Michael Menietti and Karim R. Lakhani

Although citations are widely used to measure the influence of scientific works, research shows that many citations serve rhetorical functions and reflect little-to-no influence on the citing authors. If highly cited papers disproportionately attract rhetorical... View Details

Keywords: Metrics; Influence; Status; Citations; Science; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception

Web

Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

in attempts to cut costs, uncovering multiple opportunities to improve processes in ways that lower total costs and deliver better care. Publications Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time... View Details

2001
Working Paper

When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity Dependent Firms

By: Malcolm Baker, Jeremy Stein and Jeffrey Wurgler

We use a simple model of corporate investment to determine when investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Equity; Stocks; Price; Mathematical Methods; Forecasting and Prediction