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      Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences

      By: Valerio Capraro, Jillian J. Jordan and Ben Tappin
      A growing body of work suggests that people are sensitive to moral framing in economic games involving prosociality, suggesting that people hold moral preferences for doing the “right thing”. What gives rise to these preferences? Here, we evaluate the explanatory power...  View Details
      Keywords: Moral Preferences; Moral Frames; Observability; Trustworthiness; Trust Game; Trade-off Game; Moral Sensibility; Reputation; Behavior; Trust
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      Capraro, Valerio, Jillian J. Jordan, and Ben Tappin. "Does Observability Amplify Sensitivity to Moral Frames? Evaluating a Reputation-Based Account of Moral Preferences." Working Paper, January 2021.
      • March 2021
      • Article

      The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection

      By: Ran Zhuo, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy and Shane Greenstein
      The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection agreements determine the flow of data between networks. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict restrictions on...  View Details
      Keywords: Personal Data; Privacy Regulation; Gdpr; Interconnection Agreements; Internet; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms
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      Zhuo, Ran, Bradley Huffaker, KC Claffy, and Shane Greenstein. "The Impact of the General Data Protection Regulation on Internet Interconnection." Telecommunications Policy 45, no. 2 (March 2021).
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Dynamic Competition for Customer Memberships

      By: Jorge Tamayo and Christian Chica
      A competitive two-period membership (subscription) market is analyzed. Two symmetric firms charge a “membership” fee that allows consumers to buy products or services at a given unit price for both periods. Firms can choose between long- or short-term memberships. When...  View Details
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      Tamayo, Jorge, and Christian Chica. "Dynamic Competition for Customer Memberships." Working Paper, February 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Teaching Note

      Ureed.com: The Marketplace for Language

      By: Ashley V. Whillans
      This case explores the growth of Ureed, an online marketplace for translation services that is powered by a workforce consisting of remote freelancers who are based in the United Arab Emirates. Nour Al Hassan, the founder and CEO faced the challenge of how best to...  View Details
      Keywords: Language Translation; Freelancers; Remote Work; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Management; Motivation And incentives; Job Design And Levels
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      Whillans, Ashley V. "Ureed.com: The Marketplace for Language." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-028, January 2021.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Don't Get It or Don't Spread It? Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors

      By: Jillian J. Jordan, Erez Yoeli and David Rand
      Efforts to avoid COVID-19 infection may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using American samples from Amazon Turk and Prolific (total n = 6,850), we investigated which framing is more effective—and motivation is stronger—for fostering intentions to engage in...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Prevention; Prosocial Motivation; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Motivation And incentives
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      Jordan, Jillian J., Erez Yoeli, and David Rand. "Don't Get It or Don't Spread It? Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors." Working Paper, December 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Virtuous Victims

      By: Jillian J. Jordan and Maryam Kouchaki
      How do people perceive the moral character of victims? We find, across a range of transgressions, that people frequently see victims of wrongdoing as more moral than non-victims who have behaved identically. Across 15 experiments (total n = 9,355), we document this...  View Details
      Keywords: Moral Judgment; Restorative Justice; Punishment; Compensation; Person Perception; Moral Sensibility; Judgments; Personal Characteristics; Perception
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      Jordan, Jillian J., and Maryam Kouchaki. "Virtuous Victims." Working Paper, December 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Reputation Drives Morally Questionable Punishment

      By: Jillian J. Jordan and Nour Kteily
      Critics of outrage culture allege that reputation fuels morally questionable punishment, but is this actually true? Across three studies, we investigated the willingness of liberal subjects to punish a university professor facing sexual harassment allegations. In our...  View Details
      Keywords: Outrage; Signaling; Ideology; Moralistic Punishment; Reputation; Moral Sensibility
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      Jordan, Jillian J., and Nour Kteily. "Reputation Drives Morally Questionable Punishment." Working Paper, December 2020.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex

      By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal
      The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Cost Vs Benefits; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Finance; Behavioral Finance; Insurance; Health; Health Care And Treatment; Human Resources; Compensation And Benefits; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Social Psychology; Behavior; Interests; Motivation And incentives; Perception; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; North America; United States
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      Schwartzstein, Joshua, Amitabh Chandra, and Amram Migdal. "Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex." Harvard Business School Case 921-023, January 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking

      By: Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
      Multinational corporations (MNCs) hire auditors to assess their business partners’ compliance with quality, working conditions, and environmental standards. Independent third-party auditors are widely assumed to outperform second-party auditors employed and thus...  View Details
      Keywords: Concurrent Sourcing; Transaction Cost Economics; Outsourcing; Suppliers; Monitoring; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Supply Chain Management; Quality; Safety; Risk And Uncertainty; Apparel And Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; China; India; Bangladesh
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      Palmarozzo, Ashley, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "Auditor Independence and Outsourcing: Aligning Incentives to Mitigate Shilling and Shirking." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-078, January 2021.
      • 2021
      • Article

      Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy

      By: Lara B. Aknin and Ashley V. Whillans
      Perhaps one of the most reaffirming findings to emerge over the past several decades is that humans not only engage in generous behavior, they also appear to experience pleasure from doing so. Yet not all acts of helping lead to greater happiness. Here, we review the...  View Details
      Keywords: Generosity; Helping; Behavior; Motivation And incentives; Happiness; Policy
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      Aknin, Lara B., and Ashley V. Whillans. "Helping and Happiness: A Review and Guide for Public Policy." Social Issues and Policy Review 15 (2021): 3–34.
      • Winter 2021
      • Editorial

      The Start of Time Smart Leadership

      By: Ashley Whillans
      The author discusses the concept of “time poverty,” which she defines as “having too many things to do and not enough time to do them.” It is a problem because it undermines happiness and productivity and increases stress. For instance, in 2012, 50 percent of working...  View Details
      Keywords: Time Poverty; Time And Wellbeing; Leadership; Employees; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Welfare
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      Whillans, Ashley. "The Start of Time Smart Leadership." Leader to Leader 99 (Winter 2021): 64–69.
      • January–February 2021
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      Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

      By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
      By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to...  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation And Benefits; Motivation And incentives; Strategy; Performance
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      Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino, and Metin Aksoy. "Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 102–111.
      • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
      • Supplement

      The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
      How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...  View Details
      Keywords: Cost Vs Benefits; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values And Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Government Legislation; Government And Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits And Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission And Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Conflict And Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation And incentives; Perspective; Prejudice And Bias; Civil Society Or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A., and Suzanne Antoniou. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 221-064, December 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
      • December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
      • Teaching Note

      The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
      How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government...  View Details
      Keywords: Cost Vs Benefits; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values And Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Government Legislation; Government And Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits And Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission And Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Conflict And Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation And incentives; Perspective; Prejudice And Bias; Civil Society Or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A., and Suzanne Antoniou. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 221-044, December 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
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      Value of New Performance Information in Healthcare: Evidence from Japan

      By: Susanna Gallani, Takehisa Kajiwara and Ranjani Krishnan
      Mandatory measurement and disclosure of outcome measures are commonly used policy tools in healthcare. The effectiveness of such disclosures relies on the extent to which the new information produced by the mandatory system is internalized by the healthcare...  View Details
      Keywords: Value Of Information; Feedback; Patient Satisfaction; Healthcare; Health Care And Treatment; Satisfaction; Information; Measurement And Metrics; Performance Improvement
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      Gallani, Susanna, Takehisa Kajiwara, and Ranjani Krishnan. "Value of New Performance Information in Healthcare: Evidence from Japan." International Journal of Health Economics and Management 20, no. 4 (December 2020): 319–357.
      • December 2020
      • Article

      The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices

      By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
      Designing marketplaces in complex settings requires both novel economic theory and real-world engineering, often drawing upon ideas from fields such as computer science and operations research. In Discovering Prices, Milgrom (2017) explains the theory and design...  View Details
      Keywords: Pricing; Design; Auctions; Market Design; Complexity
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      Kominers, Scott Duke, and Alexander Teytelboym. "The Parable of the Auctioneer: Complexity in Paul R. Milgrom's Discovering Prices." Journal of Economic Literature 58, no. 4 (December 2020): 1180–1196.
      • 2020
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      Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship

      By: Josh Lerner
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      Lerner, Josh. "Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship." Chap. 4 in Global Innovation Index 2020: Who will Finance Innovation? 13th edition, edited by Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin, and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent. Cornell University, 2020. Electronic.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Abhijit Banerjee, Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer and Aakash Mohpal
      New research clearly identifies trust as an important driver of the demand for healthcare. However, doctors who realize that patients may not trust them may also alter their behavior in response. We assemble a large dataset that assesses clinical performance using...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Quality; Developing Countries And Economies; Trust
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Abhijit Banerjee, Jishnu Das, Jeffrey Hammer, and Aakash Mohpal. "The Market for Healthcare in Low Income Countries." Working Paper, December 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Social Salary Setting at Spiber

      By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
      This case tells the story of Spiber, a Japanese technology start-up company. To reflect the company’s values, the leadership team implemented a new and unique salary-setting process: each employee had the authority to choose their own salary. In the course of...  View Details
      Keywords: Compensation; General Management; Employee Benefits; incentives; Motivation; Compensation And Benefits; Fairness; Motivation And incentives; Management; Happiness; Negotiation; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Japan
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      Whillans, Ashley, and John Beshears. "Social Salary Setting at Spiber." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-014, November 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt

      By: Grant E. Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Stephen Bush, Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
      Many consumers struggle to repay their credit card debt, in part because paying small portions of large bills often feels fruitless. We introduce a novel credit card payment option—repayment-by-purchase—and examine its influence on both the amount consumers’ repay and...  View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Debt; Goal Pursuit; Goal Progress; Financial Decison-making; Personal Finance; Credit Cards; Borrowing And Debt; Goals And Objectives; Motivation And incentives; Decision Making
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      Donnelly, Grant E., Cait Lamberton, Stephen Bush, Zoe Chance, and Michael I. Norton. "'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-060, November 2020.
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