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2022
Keynote Speech

Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots Workshop

By: Julian De Freitas

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Mar 2022
Conference Presentation

Corporations are Viewed as Psychopaths with Good True Selves

By: Julian De Freitas, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Z. Kohn and P. Kim

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Mar 2022
Conference Presentation

Should Automated Vehicles Favor Passengers Over Pedestrians?

By: Julian De Freitas

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February, 2022
Article

Costs Without Value When Treating Pediatric Behavioral Patients in the ED

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Marcella Jewell, Syed S. Shehab, Jack Fanton and Joeli Hettler

The demand on pediatric EDs to provide behavioral health care has increased over the past decade. Thus, an accurate cost analysis of providing this care in pediatric ED settings could inform the design of the most appropriate care model for these patients and identify... View Details

Keywords: Costs; Value; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment

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February 2022
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Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and William L. Skimmyhorn

Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase financial distress due to increased borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan.... View Details

Keywords: Retirement Savings; Automatic Enrollment; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Financial Distress; Retirement; Saving; Borrowing and Debt; Behavior

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February 2022
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Sugar-sweetened Beverage Purchases and Intake at Event Arenas with and without a Portion Size Cap

By: Sheri Volger, James Scott Parrott, Brian Elbel, Leslie K. John, Jason P. Block, Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia and Christina A. Roberto

This is the first real-world study to examine the association between a voluntary 16-ounce (oz.) portion-size cap on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) at a sporting arena on volume of SSBs and food calories purchased and consumed during basketball games. Cross-sectional... View Details

Keywords: Sugar-sweetened Beverages; Nutrition Policy; Obesity Prevention; Portion Sizes; Nutrition; Policy; Health; Behavior

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February 2022
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Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We build a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920, and a historical state-level corporate tax database with corporate tax... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Income Taxes; Corporate Taxation; Firms; Inventors; State Taxation; Business Taxation; R＆D Tax Credits; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; History; United States

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2021
Working Paper

Dynamic Pricing Algorithms, Consumer Harm, and Regulatory Response

By: Alexander J. MacKay and Samuel Weinstein

Pricing algorithms are rapidly transforming markets, from ride-sharing apps, to air travel, to online retail. Regulators and scholars have watched this development with a wary eye. Their focus so far has been on the potential for pricing algorithms to facilitate... View Details

Keywords: Competition Policy; Regulation; Algorithmic Pricing; Dynamic Pricing; Economics; Law And Economics; Law And Regulation; Competition

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January 2022
Case

Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (A)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

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January 2022
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Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (B)

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

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January 2022
Case

Hybrid Classroom - an Opportunity or a Threat?

By: V.G. Narayanan

When the Covid pandemic struck in the spring of 2020, HBS pivoted to remote instruction while maintaining the interactive and engaged discussions which distinguished the case system pedagogy. In fall 2020 HBS adopted a hybrid approach, fitting out its classrooms with... View Details

Keywords: Education; Teaching

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January 2022
Teaching Note

TXU (A) and (B): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History

By: Trevor Fetter

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2022
Article

Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West

Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of... View Details