Rank and response: A field experiment on peer information and water use behavior
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Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
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Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
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Social norms messaging campaigns are increasingly used to influence human behavior, with social science research generally finding that they have modest but meaningful effects.
MassRobotics, a nonprofit founded by several MIT alumni, is advancing an industry that will play an increasingly important role in our lives.
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Natalia Levina, PhD ’01, and Rumman Chowdhury, SB ’03, spoke at the second annual Social Media Summit@MIT, a virtual gathering hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, in late March.
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How Far Could Pension Funds Drive Sustainable Investing?
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In a new book about the history of Kendall Square from the MIT Press, author Robert Buderi chronicles the area's biggest successes in innovation.
This report by Fei Qin, an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Bath, and Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, describes what the authors believe to be a state‐of‐the‐art learning system at IBM Corporation and traces the effects of...
The MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) explores how people and businesses will work, interact, and prosper in an era of profound digital transformation.