Publications

2019
Working Paper

On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore

Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program... View Details

Keywords: Gender Norms; Economics; Gender; Employment; Income; Societal Protocols; India

September 2012
Article

The Bedside Manner of Homo Economicus: How and Why Priming an Economic Schema Reduces Compassion

By: Andrew Molinsky, Adam M. Grant and Joshua D. Margolis

We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas reduces the compassion that individuals extend to others in need when delivering bad news. Across three experiments, we show that unobtrusively priming economic schemas decreases the compassion that... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Framework; Emotions; Societal Protocols; Economics

February 2019
Article

Pettiness in Social Exchange

By: Tami Kim, Ting Zhang and Michael I. Norton

We identify and document a novel construct—pettiness, or intentional attentiveness to trivial details—and examine its (negative) implications in interpersonal relationships and social exchange. Seven studies show that pettiness manifests across different types of... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Personal Characteristics; Perception; Societal Protocols

19 Nov 2014
News

Advancing opportunities for diverse professionals

Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. (Published November 2014) View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry

As chief executive of Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll (MBA 1989) worked to improve safety. True to her word, Anglo American’s mine fatalities decreased by nearly 60 percent during her six-year tenure (2007–2013) as chief... View Details

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Research at HBS | Information Technology

(University-Wide) – Harvard Office of the Provost ." The PDF for each member’s completion of training can be attached to the protocol in the Edit Protocol section, in section 3 of the View Details

16 Oct 2014
News

Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation

When regulated industries exert undue influence on (or “capture”) their governmental regulators, problems that are all too familiar may result. And while scholars have investigated regulatory capture, deregulation has been the most typical, and often the only, remedy... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Improving patient care through better communication

Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson explores how open communication in hospitals leads to improved patient care. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

You Are What You Eat

Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable. “Driven by competition alone,... View Details

Keywords: agricultural intensification; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

Article

Can Wages Buy Honesty?: The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft

By: C. X. Chen and Tatiana Sandino

In this study we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Behavior; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols

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Jacobs is a pioneer in the wireless technology industry. The company that he founded, Qualcomm, developed a satellite-based communications protocol called CDMA, Code Division Multiple Access. Considered one of the fastest growing wireless... View Details

Keywords: Communications

01 Sep 2009
News

Six Receive Dean’s Award

Established in 1997, the Dean’s Award recognizes graduating students for extraordinary nonacademic contributions to Harvard, HBS, or the broader community. This year’s recipients, honored at June’s Commencement ceremonies, were Andrew Goldin (enhancing the MBA learning... View Details

Keywords: awards; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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The Section Experience | MBA

introduce innovative ideas and approaches to learning. In turn, students exercise their team-building and management skills to develop protocols for effective learning and shape the distinctive norms and personality of their sections.... View Details

June 2023
Article

The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information

By: Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies and collective bargaining. Access to salary information is believed to be limited and unequal, but there is little direct evidence on the sources of... View Details

Keywords: Search Costs; Privacy; Norms; Compensation; Financial Industry; Field Experiment; Knowledge Dissemination; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols