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- Faculty Publications (8)
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- All HBS Web (19)
- Faculty Publications (8)
- January 2022
- Article
Rational Habit Formation: Experimental Evidence from Handwashing in India
- 12 May 2021
- News
Small Bribes May Help People Build Healthy Handwashing Habits
- 09 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing
- 2023
- Working Paper
Translating Information into Action: A Public Health Experiment in Bangladesh
- 2023
- Working Paper
Behavioral Transmission: Evidence from a Public Health Campaign in Bangladesh
Rational Habit Formation
Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests... View Details
- 03 Jan 2022
- News
Making Healthy Practices Habitual
- 2023
- Article
Conduit Incentives: Eliciting Cooperation from Workers Outside of Managers' Control
- May 2014 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Unilever's Lifebuoy in India: Implementing the Sustainability Plan
Unilever's new Global Brand VP must not only revitalize Lifebuoy soap's sagging market performance, but simultaneously impact the health of one billion people worldwide. The latter challenge comes from Unilever's new CEO who has introduced the Unilever Sustainable... View Details
Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies
Organizational psychologists have long held that monitoring workers saps them of their autonomy and thereby reduces their effectiveness. Yet technology has intensified such surveillance in recent years: Managers now track everything from clinicians’ handwashing to... View Details
- Web
Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice