Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Behavior"
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The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial
(SAGE Publications, 2018-01)Purpose: We tested the effects of employer subsidies on employee enrollment, attendance, and weight loss in a nationally-available weight management program. Design: A randomized trial tested the impact of employer subsidy: ... -
Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics
(Public Library of Science, 2014)The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused on the spread of prosocial ... -
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
(American Economic Association, 2014-08)There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard ... -
Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity’s Largest Gathering
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the aggregation of microscopic behaviors of their constituent elements, but connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has ... -
"Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations."
(Academy of Management, 2008)Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature ...