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- 13 Oct 2017
- HBS Seminar
Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School
- June 1983
- Article
A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts
By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy Stokey
Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is...
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Green, Jerry R., and Nancy Stokey. "A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts." Journal of Political Economy 91, no. 3 (June 1983): 349–364.
- 18 Apr 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Popular Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- Article
Orienteering for Electioneering
By: Jonah Kallenbach, Robert Kleinberg and Scott Duke Kominers
In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial optimization problem that models the investment decision a political candidate faces when treating his or her opponents’ campaign plans as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts...
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Kallenbach, Jonah, Robert Kleinberg, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Orienteering for Electioneering." Operations Research Letters 46, no. 2 (March 2018): 205–210.
- 08 Mar 2016
- Video
Educating Global Leaders in China
- July 2005
- Exercise
Pricing for Profit: Multi-Part Pricing in the U.K. Credit Card Industry
Examines the optimal pricing mechanism for credit cards.
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Coughlan, Peter J. "Pricing for Profit: Multi-Part Pricing in the U.K. Credit Card Industry." Harvard Business School Exercise 706-407, July 2005.
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
- January 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Competition and Product Variety
Examines the choice of optimal product positioning in a differentiated goods market.
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Brandenburger, Adam M., and Vijay Krishna. "Competition and Product Variety." Harvard Business School Case 190-100, January 1990. (Revised November 1992.)
- 2009
- Case
Blaine Kitchenware, Inc.: Capital Structure: Brief Case No. 4040.
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
A diversified mid-sized manufacturer of kitchen tools contemplates a stock repurchase in response to an unsolicited takeover. The company must analyze its debt capacity and optimal capital structure,while considering associated changes in firm value and stock price....
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- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
still so many unmet needs that can be addressed through innovation. There are unmet needs in clinical outcomes, care delivery, patient engagement and cost optimization that makes health care an exciting field to be in. In my day job, I...
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Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments
Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although...
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- 2022
- Working Paper
Slowly Varying Regression under Sparsity
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami
We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem...
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Keywords:
Mathematical Methods
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Omar Skali Lami. "Slowly Varying Regression under Sparsity." Working Paper, September 2022.
- 06 Feb 2019
- HBS Seminar
Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University
- Research Summary
'Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion' (with Achim Wambach) ), 2005
We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that the agent is inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than these standard results. Our key findings are: Inequity aversion alters the structure...
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- 23 Jun 2015
- News
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
- October 1991 (Revised November 1993)
- Case
Philips' Compact Disc Introduction (A)
Asks that students adopt the perspective of Philips in 1979, after technical development of the CD was complete, but three years before it was introduced commercially. At that time, Philips' management had to decide whether to attempt to establish a CD standard through...
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Technological Innovation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Launch;
Standards;
Product Development;
Technology Industry
McGahan, Anita M. "Philips' Compact Disc Introduction (A)." Harvard Business School Case 792-035, October 1991. (Revised November 1993.)
- March 2022
- Article
Where to Locate COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Facilities?
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li and Alessandro Previero
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a record-breaking race to develop a vaccine. However, the limited vaccine capacity creates another massive challenge: how to distribute vaccines to mitigate the near-end impact of the pandemic? In the United States in particular, the new...
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Keywords:
Vaccines;
COVID-19;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Performance Effectiveness;
Analytics and Data Science;
Mathematical Methods
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Alessandro Previero. "Where to Locate COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Facilities?" Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 69, no. 2 (March 2022): 179–200.
- Career Coach
Michele Biamonte
Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She...
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Professor Schwartzstein uses the lens of behavioral economics to build more psychologically accurate assumptions into economic models, and he applies these models to create a more realistic understanding of market outcomes and optimal public policy.
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- November 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
California Closets: Organizing the Customer Experience
By: Boris Groysberg and Annelena Lobb
California Closets had used robust net promoter score (NPS) data, surveyed across its locations, to create a more consistent and satisfying customer experience. CEO Bill Barton wanted to further optimize the customer experience around best practices. He also wanted to...
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Keywords:
Net Promoter Score;
Customer Relationship Management;
Customer Satisfaction;
Customers;
Acquisition;
Demographics;
Strategy
Groysberg, Boris, and Annelena Lobb. "California Closets: Organizing the Customer Experience." Harvard Business School Case 419-004, November 2018. (Revised May 2019.)