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- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
afterward, he and his mother contracted yellow fever; they were lying in bed together, very sick, when one morning he wakes up to find she's died. That's something you just don't get over, and I believe it contributed to the chip he...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue...
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- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
and Sara Moore, who connected the dots between neural activity and success in the music industry. In a seminal lab experiment, teenagers listened to a series of new, relatively unknown songs while lying inside an fMRI machine. The...
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- July 31, 2017
- Article
A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS
By: Marcella Alsan, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson and Vincent C. Marconi
Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence.
Design: Single-center pilot randomized clinical trial and a...
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Adherence;
Antiretroviral Therapy;
Behavioral Economics;
Commitment Contract;
Financial Incentives;
HIV-1 Virologic Suppression;
Health Disorders;
Motivation and Incentives
Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del Rio, David Laibson, and Vincent C. Marconi. "A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS." AIDS 31, no. 12 (July 31, 2017): 1765–1769.
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
impression. Across two pilot studies and six experiments, we identify paltering as a distinct form of deception. Paltering differs from lying by omission (the passive omission of relevant information) and View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
In mid-February 2009, Dubai Duty Free Managing Director Colm McLoughlin received the January sales report. He left the report lying on his desk unopened and went to walk around the shops as he did every morning. When he returned, he sat...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
"The ghosts of the past are always lying in wait to haunt us." We have two ghostly words for Microsoft: Windows Vista. It's been nearly six years since the launch of that version of Windows, but harried IT managers may never...
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- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way...
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
protagonist is trying to decide whether to purchase and develop an aquifer lying beneath rural land near Fresno, California. The project could fill a void for local farmers as well as surrounding municipalities and a variety of other...
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Anna Secino
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
to work on with this heroin campaign. Hanna: Last week the White House introduced four ads that are focused on prescription opioids, and they feature the stories of four people who purposely hurt themselves in order to get more of the prescription drugs. For example, a...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year...
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- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
(added, I think, by Ly Tran). Marc Pascarella was also possibly the only student to employ a massaging seat cover during class. We did an auction fundraiser for cancer research in the second term in honor of a sectionmate’s mother, and...
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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the right word—and I had to negotiate about this. That experience gave me a sense that you can't be a passive person, even with the best of physicians. You have to understand what's going to happen and to negotiate about all the possible twists and turns ahead of time...
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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
making snap judgments about people based on the wrong cues. The fact is, though, that most of us aren't nearly as good as we think we are at catching deception, whether it's malicious or merely defensive. Studies show that our hunches about when people are View Details
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by Michael Wheeler
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
affected are injured and disabled, not merely “neurodiverse.” They call the refusal to acknowledge this reality Autism Epidemic Denial. The key to stopping the epidemic, they say, is to stop lying about its history and start asking “who...
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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
document processing, electronic imaging, workstation and computer peripherals, software, and office automation. These not only successfully commercialized technology lying fallow in the organization but also generated attractive financial...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner