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- Jun 2015
- Report
America’s Unconventional Energy Opportunity: A Win-Win Plan for the Economy, the Environment, and a Lower-Carbon, Cleaner-Energy Future
America's unconventional gas and oil resources are perhaps the single largest opportunity to improve the trajectory of the nation’s economy, at a time when the prospects for the average American are weaker... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
probability of a crash; (3) attributes of the price run-up, including volatility, turnover, issuance, and the price path of the run-up, can all help forecast an eventual crash and future returns; View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
also why they are going there. We heard time and again that too often leaders neglect to connect the dots between who they are, whom they serve, and how digital technology will... View Details
- December 2002
- Article
Knowledge Seeking and Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
To what extent do firms go abroad to access technology available in other locations? This paper examines whether and when state technical capabilities attract foreign investment in manufacturing from 1987-1993. We find that on average state R&D intensity does not... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Foreign Direct Investment; Research and Development; Information Technology; Production; Geographic Location; United States
Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Knowledge Seeking and Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States." Management Science 48, no. 12 (December 2002): 1534–1554.
- 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
Falk, Armin, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, David B. Huffman, and Uwe Sunde. "The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences." Management Science 69, no. 4 (April 2023): 1935–1950.
- 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
Hobson, Nicholas M., Francesca Gino, Michael I. Norton, and Michael Inzlicht. "When Novel Rituals Lead to Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology." Psychological Science 28, no. 6 (June 2017): 733–750.
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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
Mitchell, Marc S., Jack M. Goodman, David A. Alter, Leslie K. John, Paul I. Oh, Maureen T. Pakosh, and Guy E. Faulkner. "Financial Incentives for Exercise Adherence in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 45, no. 5 (November 2013): 658–667.
- 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
- 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
- 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
Teplitskiy, Misha, Eamon Duede, Michael Menietti, and Karim R. Lakhani. "How Status of Research Papers Affects the Way They Are Read and Cited." Research Policy 51, no. 4 (May 2022).
- 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
Baker, Malcolm, Jeremy Stein, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity Dependent Firms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 8750, December 2001. (First draft in 2001.)