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.
A new review paper from MIT health economist Joseph Doyle finds, the overall impact of information technology on health care has been evolutionary, not revolutionary.
The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it – Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Jon Rathauser
Misinformation can amplify humanities greatest challenges. Read about what we are learning about fighting COVID-19 misinformation online.
MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative Applies Analytics to the Opioid Crisis: Research reflects focus on innovating and implementing systemic health care solutions
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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...
Andrea Ippolito, SDM ’12, understood the health care industry inside and out, but that didn’t matter as an exhausted new mom weighing feeding options for her daughter.
Professor Finkelstein: If something becomes more expensive, people will buy less of it. When patients have to pay more, they use less medical care. The problem is they use less of all types of care.