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  • June 2009
  • Article

Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Film Entertainment; Demand and Consumers; Renting or Rental; Power and Influence; Prejudice and Bias; Online Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Open to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination

By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Phenomenological assumptions-assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon being studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs-affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research... View Details
Keywords: Citations; Knowledge Dissemination; Negotiation; Research
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Attitudes; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Film Entertainment; Cognition and Thinking; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 18 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

George Borjas, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

    Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

    In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
    • 13 Feb 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

    hired to watch videos of the sessions on mute, rating the perceived friendliness of the white participants based on nonverbal cues. Alas, the participants who attempted colorblindness came across as especially unfriendly, often avoiding... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

    Do relationships between colleagues raise the bar? A new analysis of how physicians who know each other provide better patient care could impart wide-ranging lessons for the business world. Specialists who received referrals from primary care physicians (PCPs) with... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
    • Web

    Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

    Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow Understand key metrics in valuation like time value of money, terminal value,... View Details
    • 02 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

    0.5 percent. The federal tax cut reduced rates by 14 percent, so the income-shifting motivation is likely to be much stronger.” Prior research largely focused on how personal taxes impact income inequity, and Rouen wanted to take a... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland
    • Web

    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    rated using a 7-point Likert scale and used as prompts for group discussion. We will also search MEDLINE, PsycINFO and EMBASE to find definitions of creativity in the scientific literature. Six definitions, chosen based on citation... View Details
    • 31 Mar 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

    differentiator for some services. Linklaters’ clients, for example, derive comfort from knowing that the firm has the resources to work on large, high-stakes, complex matters. A 2007 analysis found that the firm’s average billing rate... View Details
    Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
    • 02 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

    typically won't do: It looks like a great technology, really groundbreaking, could be a huge market, but it's a technologist—sometimes a wild-eyed technologist—who's driving it. The businessperson is either weak or not there at all. The hit View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Barley
    • Web

    Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    with outside organizations should not be driven by input costs, taxes, subsidies or even the wage rates for scientists and engineers, as they often are. Instead, R&D investments should flow preferentially to the locations with the... View Details
    • Web

    Historical Data & Sources - Business History

    Historical Data Visualization Historical Data & Sources All Records Data & Sources Adult Literacy Rates World Bank, World Development Indicators database Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook National Center of Education... View Details
    • 11 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

    depicting workplace interactions. In both situations, emotions were either ignored or acknowledged. Participants consistently rated people who commented about negative emotions as more trustworthy, giving them View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51996 forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 25 Nov 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    When Your Passion Works Against You

    University of Toronto. Sometimes passion isn’t appropriate At the same time, the team found that passion doesn’t always work. In a second study, participants watched videos of Dragons’ Den and rated how passionate entrepreneurs sounded.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

    Managers are often stretched in various directions, including hiring and reviewing staff members, developing spending forecasts, and reporting to the C-suite. These responsibilities entail a lot of administrative tasks, like filling out employee View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Asset Management’s Quantitative Research Institute for his paper with Aaron Yoon, “Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement." Suraj Srinivasan : “The Changing Landscape of Auditors’ Liability” with... View Details
    • 16 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

    needs. The velocity or rate of adaption that firms need to adjust to a new directional reality will depend on customer demand. Industries with decreasing customer demand—offline entertainment, hospitality, real estate, industrial... View Details
    Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service