Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "decision choices and conditions"
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Asymmetric Effects of Favorable and Unfavorable Information on Decision-making Under Ambiguity
(INFORMS, 2015-12-01)Most daily decisions involve uncertainty about outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical ... -
Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making
(2015)Price is a key factor in most purchases, but it can be presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making ... -
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
(Elsevier, 2015)The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption ... -
Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations
(2014)This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions ... -
Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017)Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment ... -
Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings
(2008)In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of ... -
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
(INFORMS, 2013)Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly ... -
When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-10-24)We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often ... -
Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2016-06)In fields as diverse as technology entrepreneurship and the arts, crowds of interested stakeholders are increasingly responsible for deciding which innovations to fund, a privilege that was previously reserved for a few ...