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- 08 Jun 2017
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Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool
- 04 Aug 2016
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Why Olympic Athletes Shouldn’t Try to Calm Down Before a Big Moment
- 19 Jun 2019
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Who Asks Questions, And What It Tells Us
- 01 Dec 2023
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Joint Venture
existing interventions and joint-replacement devices, known as Ormi, is expected to provide patients with a less invasive, less painful, and more adaptive solution. Currently available knee-replacement implants are a multicomponent device...
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Shoshi Parks
- 01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This
psychiatrist Palmer’s thesis that “mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain” provides new therapeutic pathways based on a rigorous synthesis of existing literature. Low-cost, low-risk lifestyle interventions include sleep,...
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- 25 May 2016
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Backing Harvard’s Work for Children
impressed me about the Center on the Developing Child is its emphasis on rapid testing of possible interventions and strategies, not unlike how a business approaches R&D,” Tichio explains. “Jack Shonkoff, who directs the center, is an...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
United Way, and Scott Wilson of Volkswagen led the rollout of a program emphasizing five interventions (including “talk, sing, and point”; “count, group, and compare”; and “read and discuss stories”) that positively affect the swiftly...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Humans, it seems, are wired for immediate gratification, while “a lot of the things that make us happiest require time and effort,” Norton says. Understanding this disconnect and interventions that could change it can make people—and...
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April White
- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
add up. To Young, that speaks to a broader need for government intervention in situations where intentionally discriminatory policies have caused real estate markets to fail. “Government has to play where the market doesn’t,” contends...
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- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were...
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- 20 Jan 2017
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Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can...
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- 10 Aug 2015
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Support for the Healers
health,” says Sandford, who joined Point of Care in 2014. “Their burn-out rates are high and getting higher.” Recent breakthroughs in life-saving medical interventions mean that “more patients are living longer with chronic conditions,”...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Waxing Philosophical
prominent environmentalist in corporate America, Johnson discussed with USA Today (December 4, 2002) the drinking problem that he had developed toward the end of his career. He sought treatment in 1993 after an intervention by his family;...
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- 22 Sep 2009
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The Case for Regulatory Reform
we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets....
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr Radiology Center in Cairo. The chain of radiology centers offers...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts. View Details
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2018
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From Das’s Desk
Reflective Leader program Today, however, the practice of education is changing, from a short-term learning intervention to one centered on a lifelong process of development. At HBS, our core mission is to keep the School relevant for...
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Das Narayandas
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big,...
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