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- 08 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority
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by Kristina McElheran
- 2010
- Book
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy
By: Amar Bhide
Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in...
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Keywords:
Recession;
Banking;
Banks;
Finance;
Economics;
Macroeconomics;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Bhide, Amar. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Article
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics
By: Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber
There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why...
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Astebro, Thomas, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda, and Roberto A. Weber. "Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 49–70.
- March 2008
- Course Overview Note
Dynamic Markets
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students...
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- 16 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Marketplace or Reseller?
- 2020
- Working Paper
On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout
By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many individuals turn out for...
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Kaplow, Louis, and Scott Duke Kominers. "On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-097, March 2020.
- 27 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Taking the LEAP into the Case Method
students last semester. I was familiar with the theory of leadership, and I also had many years of teaching experience on this subject, but finding an effective way of helping students learn and improve the skills of leadership in the...
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- 13 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis
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by Max H. Bazerman & Joshua D. Greene
- 07 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
- December 2018 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team
By: Michael Luca, Ariella Kristal and Emilie Billaud
This case explores how neuroscientist Mariam Chammat helped set up the first behavioral insights team at the center of the French government, and encouraged French administrations to innovate and create policy initiatives based on psychological theories of influence...
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Keywords:
Choice Architecture;
Behavioral Economics;
Experiments;
Negotiation;
Decision Making;
Economics;
Taxation;
Entrepreneurship;
Consumer Behavior;
Public Administration Industry;
Europe;
France;
Paris
Luca, Michael, Ariella Kristal, and Emilie Billaud. "Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team." Harvard Business School Case 919-015, December 2018. (Revised June 2020.)
Elon Kohlberg
Elon Kohlberg is the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His research is mainly in Game Theory, in particular the study of non-cooperative equilibrium.
Professor Kohlberg has taught many courses in the MBA,... View Details
- December 2003 (Revised February 2008)
- Background Note
Law and Legal Reasoning: An Introduction
By: Henry B. Reiling
Gives prominence to Mr. Justice Holmes' Prediction Theory of the law as a practical--and by analogy to forecasting in finance and other functional areas of business--comfortable, and familiar way for businesspeople to think about the law. Law is defined as a forecast...
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Reiling, Henry B. "Law and Legal Reasoning: An Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 204-080, December 2003. (Revised February 2008.)
- January 2010
- Article
The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy
By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Decision Making;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Outcome or Result;
Game Theory;
Prejudice and Bias
Barron, Greg, and Stephen Leider. "The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy." Special Issue on Decisions from Experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 23, no. 1 (January 2010).
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Default Neglect in Attempts at Social Influence
By: Julian Zlatev, David P. Daniels, Hajin Kim and Margaret A. Neale
Current theories suggest that people understand how to exploit common biases to influence others. However, these predictions have received little empirical attention. We consider a widely studied bias with special policy relevance: the default effect, which is the...
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Zlatev, Julian, David P. Daniels, Hajin Kim, and Margaret A. Neale. "Default Neglect in Attempts at Social Influence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 52 (December 26, 2017).
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
digital form, stored in this platform, and therefore ready to be transported in digital form. WK: Journeying from one business model to another is a formidable leadership challenge, especially in an industry so given to continual technological transformation. How do...
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- 2015
- Chapter
Optimal Process Control of Symbolic Transfer Functions
By: Christopher Griffin and Elisabeth Paulson
Transfer function modeling is a standard technique in classical Linear Time Invariant and Statistical Process Control. The work of Box and Jenkins was seminal in developing methods for identifying parameters associated with classical (r, s, k) transfer functions....
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Keywords:
Transfer Functions;
Markov Processes;
Stochastic Models;
Process Control;
Research;
Information Technology
Griffin, Christopher, and Elisabeth Paulson. "Optimal Process Control of Symbolic Transfer Functions." In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Feedback Computing. IEEE, 2015.
- 02 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Nameless + Harmless = Blameless: When Seemingly Irrelevant Factors Influence Judgment of (Un)ethical Behavior
- 2009
- Working Paper
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The...
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Keywords:
Business Units;
Business Headquarters;
Decisions;
Cost;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Profit;
Revenue;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Managerial Roles;
Performance Efficiency;
Strategy
Jensen, Michael C., and William H. Meckling. "Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-025, September 2009.
- 17 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
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by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin