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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
predicted by theory and international experience, interest in prize-linked savings is greatest among people who do not have regular saving habits, who have little actual savings, who play lotteries extensively, and who are optimistic...
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Martha Lagace
- March 24, 2020
- Article
Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness
By: Armin Falk and Thomas Graeber
Does prosocial behavior promote happiness? We test this longstanding hypothesis in a behavioral experiment that extends the scope of previous research. In our Saving a Life paradigm, every participant either saved one human life in expectation by triggering a targeted...
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Falk, Armin, and Thomas Graeber. "Delayed Negative Effects of Prosocial Spending on Happiness." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 12 (March 24, 2020): 6463–6468.
- 2011
- Chapter
Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will
By: Thalia Wheatley and Christine E. Looser
One of my few shortcomings is that I can’t predict the future.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
Lars Ulrich, Metallica.
Lars Ulrich was right and wrong. He was right in the way we most often think about the future—as a long stretch of time during which multiply... View Details
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Free Will;
Neuroscience;
Responsibility;
Prospection;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Science;
Cognition and Thinking
Wheatley, Thalia, and Christine E. Looser. "Prospective Codes Fufilled: A Potential Neural Mechanism of Will." Chap. 13 in Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Lynn Nadel, 146–158. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
- 2014
- Article
Models of Caring, or Acting as if One Cared, About the Welfare of Others
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper surveys the theoretical literature in which people are modeled as taking other people's payoffs into account either because this affects their utility directly or because they wish to impress others with their social-mindedness. Key experimental results that...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "Models of Caring, or Acting as if One Cared, About the Welfare of Others." Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014): 129–154.
- 30 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
- Web
Cross-Registration - MBA
be distributed via lottery from amongst all petitions submitted for that course. Following submission of a petition for a lottery course, please be sure to also rank your course(s) via the link visible on...
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- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
employees a riskier lottery ticket,” says Rouen. When KKR bought CHI Overhead Doors in 2015, the company saw potential to test a new employee engagement idea because the company’s made-to-order approach could become much more productive,...
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by Avery Forman
- 21 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Living in a Dorm at HBS
partner/spouse who will be living with you? If yes – consider an apartment, if no consider a dorm. · Do you want to work in Boston over the summer/full time? If yes – consider an apartment, if no consider a dorm. · If you are able to live in a dorm or apartment,...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
a job identified for the migrant, and they are approaching the immigration system in a strategic manner. Often, the main constraint is gaining access to the scarce visa supply—there are so many applications for H-1B visas that a lottery...
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by Rachel Layne
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
Players have long been able to buy virtual items with real money in video games, such as special weapons and features. But Nintendo raised the ire of parents and regulators in 2018 when it added so-called loot boxes—a virtual lottery for...
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- 02 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
The Benefits of a Residential Campus
next time I was in class. You get to store five boxes over the summer for free. The second fear I had about living on campus is the lottery system. Frankly, I did not pay enough attention to the rules of the View Details
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
Kerr 29 Oct 2018 | Bloomberg Radio Global talent fosters innovation and collaborative patentsSari Pekkala Kerr & William Kerr 28 Oct 2018 | LSE Business Review America’s Need for Skilled Immigrants Isn’t Going AwayNoah Smith 24 Oct 2018 | Bloomberg Opinion H-1B View Details
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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,...
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Ted Obi
necessary to achieve my goals as my interests evolve over my time here. Being part of the HBS community is like Winning the lottery but feeling an immense sense of humility and responsibility. Humility from being surrounded with equally...
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Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and...
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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details
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Special Collections and Archives Exhibits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
injunctions against usury, to the Industrial Revolution, to the emergence of modern capitalism. Parallels between past and present attitudes toward money are not deeply buried: representations of gamblers and lottery drawings, the idle...
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- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
below Ohio’s well-publicized Vax-a-Million lottery campaign, where per-person costs were $68, and it’s lower than the $88 to $380 cost per person for flu vaccination campaigns in the US. Along the way, the team also provided takeaways to...
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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
existence since 1694 and are currently in use in a host of countries around the world. They blend elements of lotteries and savings programs. In particular, these products offer savers protection against principal loss and liquidity, but...
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