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- February 2014
- Article
Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess
We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience...
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Keywords:
Behavioral Decision Making;
Microeconomic Behavior;
Education Systems;
Behavior;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Gender;
Economics
Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess." Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 434–448.
- January 2022
- Article
The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the...
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Keywords:
Public Data;
Maps;
Gold;
Microeconomic Behavior;
Economics;
Data and Data Sets;
Private Sector;
Market Entry and Exit;
Mining
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry." Management Science 68, no. 1 (January 2022): 564–582.
- May 2020
- Article
Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences
By: Anke Becker, Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk
This paper shows that contemporary population-level heterogeneity in risk aversion, time preference, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity, and trust partly traces back to the structure of the migration patterns of our very early ancestors. To document...
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Keywords:
Migration Patterns;
Behavioral Economics;
Preferences;
Microeconomics;
Demography;
Decision Making;
Risk and Uncertainty;
History;
Global Range
Becker, Anke, Benjamin Enke, and Armin Falk. "Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences." AEA Papers and Proceedings 110 (May 2020): 319–323.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Salience
By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
We review the fast-growing work on salience and economic behavior. Psychological research shows that salient stimuli attract human attention “bottom up” due to their high contrast with surroundings, their surprising nature relative to recalled experiences, or their...
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Keywords:
Salience;
Economic Behavior;
Bottom Up Attention;
Microeconomics;
Decision Making;
Behavior
Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer. "Salience." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29274, September 2021.
- 04 Apr 2023
- HBS Seminar
Leslie Marx, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
- 07 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Petra Moser, NYU Stern School of Business
Elon Kohlberg
Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.
Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details
Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
John Leverett Professor in the University
Harvard University
Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details
- 15 Nov 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust: An Experimental Study
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PhD Programs - Doctoral
requirement to possess a business degree before joining the program The PhD in Business Economics provides students the opportunity to study in both Harvard’s world-class Economics Department and Harvard Business School. Throughout the program, coursework includes...
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
the Marketing faculty coordinators to receive approval of their course selections. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Students in the Marketing program choose one of the following sequences Microeconomics View Details
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Marketing - Doctoral
field exam, and then another three years on dissertation research and writing. The Marketing program draws on computer science, economics, behavioral science, and psychological methods to focus on marketing problems faced by the firm and...
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
selections. Pre-approval by the TOM faculty coordinator is required if a student wishes to fulfill these requirements with alternative courses. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Innovation Track requirements: A comprehensive two semester sequence on economic theory:...
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
to receive approval of their course selections. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Organizational Analysis and Behavior: A comprehensive two semester series on organizational theory and behavior: Macro Topics in Organizational Behavior (HBS...
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Business Economics - Doctoral
will take courses alongside your peers in the Department of Economics, studying microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, probability and statistics, econometrics, and other specialized topics. In addition, your doctoral coursework and...
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Curriculum - MBA
matriculating in August of Year 1. CORe, an online program requiring about 150 hours of work over roughly ten weeks, covers basic business analytics, microeconomics for managers, and financial accounting. NextGen Biotechnology Harvard...
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- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In May, Hall convened what he hopes will be a yearly conference of scholars now working in the burgeoning field of incentive design, which draws lessons from both microeconomics and...
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by Avery Forman
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Curriculum - MBA
Control Finance I Marketing Technology and Operations Management Leadership & Organizational Behavior Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HKS faculty Spring Term Business, Government, and the International Economy Finance II Strategy...
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Placement - Doctoral
Placement: Stanford University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024), Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Assistant Professor (2024) Dissertation: Essays in Behavioral Economics...
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- June 2008
- Article
How Are Preferences Revealed?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Revealed preferences are tastes that rationalize an economic agent's observed actions. Normative preferences represent the agent's actual interests. It sometimes makes sense to assume that revealed preferences are identical to normative preferences. But there are many...
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "How Are Preferences Revealed?" Journal of Public Economics 92, nos. 8-9 (June 2008): 1787–1794.