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- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-043.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when interacting across social categories....
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
Roberts, 27-38. Studies in Choice and Welfare Series. Springer Verlag, 2009 Abstract All of us make decisions that are not entirely self-centered; we voluntarily anticipate what we think to be the preferences of others and incorporate...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources-Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Our overall slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democrat (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they believed they had a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
disruptors, produce profitable growth, and strengthen institutions at the community, national, and international levels. Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/capitalism-at-risk-rethinking-the-role-of-business/an/13297-HBK-ENG Translating Empire: Emulation and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
teaching tools. She also served as the COO of Up with People, a nonprofit international youth leadership program. Kim and Coup also have worked on national political campaigns. After reading Jardine’s book, Coup was inspired, even...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
across at aggregated data, what are the interesting trends you’re seeing?Lord: The preferences on remote work and geographies have changed since the pandemic, given the fact that I think many students are going through a very hybrid...
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- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
you have to balance the two, you're doing the right thing. Now, if you're in politics and you're making a decision, it obviously has to do with Apollo. But if you are with your family and your kids and your friends and you go out at night...
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- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
studies the direct effects of managers' biases and nonstandard preferences on their decisions. We review relevant psychology, economic theory and predictions, empirical challenges, empirical evidence, new directions such as behavioral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
role of specific economic and political institutions in shaping the business environment and economic growth in emerging markets. It gives answers to the following questions: When will governments define and enforce property rights? When...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
have found—millennials prefer practicing yoga to hip hop music. Consumers will be drawn to, and pay for, those distinctions. The same could be said for clients at Bob Vaccaro’s Yoga by Donation, even with its pay-as-you-wish approach....
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Deborah Halber
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
uniting, becoming more “producer-friendly,” and consider the role within ASGM governance systems they are best suited to play (which may be none at all). Findings contribute to debates on the merits of increasing governance fragmentation and the role of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to certain authors or to slant reviews toward the horizontal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
monk, Stefan Cossack restores the glory of Kievan Rus to modern-day Ukraine. A novel of romance, friendship, military struggle, and political intrigue. Alpini: De roc, de neige et de sang by Gérard Guerrier (AMP 114, 1994) (Glénat Livres)...
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