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.
Emma Gibson seeks to improve patient care by helping facilities use their limited resources more effectively
Researchers at MIT Sloan have calculated the chances of catching coronavirus when aloft, though pandemic conditions keep shifting
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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?
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...
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.