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.
Leadership combines the confidence to confront big challenges with the humility to know you can’t solve them alone. This is the driving concept behind the MIT Leadership Center—because the future demands it.
Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day.
Millennials are jumping into the stock market in greater numbers
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...
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This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowe...
Use Catalytic Questioning to Solve Significant Problems
MIT students successfully shot a levitating Hyperloop pod down a 1-mile vacuum tube during a SpaceX Hyperloop competition. “We proved our design worked,” says teamate Yiou He, with satisfaction.
MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) helps executives meet the challenge of leading dynamic, global, and information-intensive organizations.