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Ariely: Token female leadership appointments make female employees feel worse
“We found that some companies, when they assign women to high positions, The women within these companies feel worse. Why? Because they take it as an indication that the company doesn't really care about them, that they're only doing things to appeal to PR, lik…”
Ariely: The SHE Index systematically underperforms the S&P 500
“Yeah, so it does much worse. Systematically, repeatedly, by big gap.”
Ariely: Low gender sentiment gap delivers 5% annual alpha over S&P
“When we look at our data, and we ask the question of, what is the gap? We said a lot of things are about relativity. So we said, for each company, let's calculate the gap between how men feel and how women feel. Like, you know, do you feel appreciated? What's …”
Ariely: Treating employees well generates 6% annual alpha
“And we find, if you look at our results, we have, like, six percent a year of alpha of treating your employees well does better.”
Ariely: Human capital factors almost universally outperform the S&P 500 in backtests
“It turns out that all of those strategies but one, all of these building blocks at one, beats the S&P on that time period, and the one that does worse is like tiny bit worse. Not all of them do as well as others. It's a You know, there's a range, but one from …”
Ariely: A $30 cash bonus cost Intel 5% to 6% in worker productivity
“In the money condition, it went up by about six percent on the first day, went down by 12% the next day. It actually backfired and went slightly up toward the control condition on the next two days, not catching up, though, to the control condition. And in gen…”
Abstract dishonesty experiment found identical cheating rates across all countries
“Then Francesca Gino, my friend, said, ah, come to Italy. We'll show you what the Italians can do. The Italians cheated just the same. We tried Turkey. We tried South Africa, Kenya, Germany, Sweden. We tried Portugal. We tried the UK. We tried Canada because th…”
Recruiters secretly prefer hiring candidates who will cheat for the company
“We gave MBAs resumes of potential job candidates. And in those resumes, those people were either told, said that they were, it was said about them that they were either dishonest in their personal lives, like to the significant other. They were dishonest at wo…”
Ariely: High-appreciation firms gained 15% in early COVID versus 5% market average
“The companies in general, if I remember correctly, between March and October, the stock market lost a lot and then gained a lot, and it was about five percent net overall. The companies that I'll tell you now about went up by 15%. That's a big gap, and those c…”
Ariely: Employee health and financial benefits only boosted performance during COVID-19
“So before COVID, we found that employee benefits didn't make a big difference. Financial benefits, health benefits didn't matter. During COVID, there was actually a positive effect of these benefits, and I think it's because period when people are more worried…”
Ariely: JPMorgan found his human capital data uncorrelated with ESG
“And the team at JP Morgan did a really nice analysis of our data. They were unbelievably thorough. I was deeply impressed by these guys, and it came basically with very good analysis and result, and it's kind of nice to have somebody like a third It's a little…”
Ariely: A gender-focused index underperforms a pure human capital index
“The real index was designed to maximize return from the beginning with no other constraint. The gender index was taking the best we had, but limiting it to companies who do well on, on gender. So it does not as well. Maybe we have something like slightly more …”
Ariely: Physical tracking coin doubled savings in Kibera study over 20% match
“And it turns out that the coin almost doubled savings compared to everything else, including 20% match.”
Ariely: Employee benefits are a lagging indicator, not a predictor of performance
“So for example, the dimension of benefits, that one changes much more as a result of how companies do financially rather as a lead indicator. And actually in our data, we don't see much of an effect for that.”
Ariely: Lemonade eliminates insurance conflicts by donating residual claims pools to charity
“So we decided to create an insurance company that takes a fixed amount of profit. When people sign up, they sign up around the charity. So let's say there's a thousand people that sign up around the World Wildlife Fund. They sign up around the World Wildlife F…”
Shaper scale users lost weight while standard scale users gained it
“So we just finished a large study. Some people got the regular scale and those people gained a little bit of weight every month. And some people got our scale and they lost 0.7% of their body weight every month for five months. The people with the regular scal…”
Ariely: The importance of inclusive innovation increased during COVID
“We found one of the things that changed during COVID is what we call inclusive innovation has increased in its importance.”
Ariely: The positive performance impact of employee benefits will fade post-COVID
“Now, I think that will go away, but it was interesting to see how this timing did change a little bit the mix of what was important.”
Ariely: Sector-specific human capital models are no better than universal models
“So we didn't do this research during COVID, but we did, of course, in the pre-COVID data, right, from 2006 and on, and we found no difference. When you do kind of statistical modeling, there's what's called nested models. So you could say, let me create a mode…”
Ariely: Human capital sentiment data has an 18-month half-life
“So in general, what we find is that this data has a half lifetime of about 18 months.”
Ariely: Higher National Violence Correlates With More COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
“There's a new research that shows that looks at 67 countries and show that the more violence there is in the country, the more they have conspiracy theories about COVID 19.”
Ariely: Soweto residents sometimes spend up to two years of income on funerals
“People in Soweto spend up to two years sometimes of income on funerals.”
Ariely: Expensive painkillers relieve more pain than identical cheap ones
“So in one study, we checked what happens when we give people expensive medications and cheap medication, and we show that the expensive medication create higher belief, and therefore they're also more effective. So we gave people electrical shocks, and we saw …”
Ariely: Discretionary effort gap in the knowledge economy will continue widening
“Everybody in the knowledge economy has a large range, and that range is only going to increase.”
People never adapt to the misery of commuting, Kahneman's research shows
“One of the things that they show is commuting is a really miserable thing to do and people don't get used to it.”
Most people experience peak productivity during a two-hour morning window
“One of the things we know, again, is that people are productive in about the first two hours of the day. Almost everybody is productive for the 1:02 hours of the day. Not when you wake up, but kind of eight to 10, nine to 11. And then we, ah, ah, have a lull, …”