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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
In recent years, I have been inside nearly two dozen turnaround situations, in various stages of progress, in which new leaders were bringing distressed organizations back from the brink of failure and...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 10 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
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by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
- 2017
- Working Paper
Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any...
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Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo. "Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-055, January 2018.
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
Literally millions of people have found dates through online match-making services, so who says the Internet is isolating? The problem for many users, however, is that initial matches are often imperfect—even frustrating—because the...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Cooperative Strategic Games
By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the value provides an a-priori assessment of the monetary worth of a player's position in a strategic game, comprising not only the player's contribution to the total...
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Game Theory
Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman. "Cooperative Strategic Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-075, February 2017.
- 25 Feb 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
progress in the public sphere of work, making it difficult to expose and undermine the social and cultural bases of inequality. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in...
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- March 2020
- Article
Context, Time, and Change: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research
By: R. Daniel Wadhwani, David A. Kirsch, Frederike Welter, William B. Gartner and Geoffrey Jones
The article discusses the value of historical methods and reasoning in strategic entrepreneurship research and theory. A framework is introduced for integrating history into entrepreneurship theory. The framework demonstrates how historical assumptions play a formative...
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Wadhwani, R. Daniel, David A. Kirsch, Frederike Welter, William B. Gartner, and Geoffrey Jones. "Context, Time, and Change: Historical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Research." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 14, no. 1 (March 2020): 3–19.
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
Guy Spier (MBA 1993) didn’t wait long after graduation to make the biggest mistake of his career. Accepting a vice president’s role at D.H. Blair Investment Banking, the admitted Gordon Gekko wannabe had a front-row seat as several top...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Racial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives?
- 24 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges
- 26 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior
- 18 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation
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by Luc Wathieu & Allan Friedman
- Article
Delayed-Response Strategies in Repeated Games with Observation Lags
By: Drew Fudenberg, Yuhta Ishii and Scott Duke Kominers
We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that is, each player either observes an almost-perfect...
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Fudenberg, Drew, Yuhta Ishii, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Delayed-Response Strategies in Repeated Games with Observation Lags." Journal of Economic Theory 150 (March 2014): 487–514.
- August 2020
- Article
Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any...
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Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo. "Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria." Social Choice and Welfare 55, no. 2 (August 2020): 215–228.
- 21 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence
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by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
A large amusement park. A long line at an airport. A children's summer camp in Italy. What do these places have in common? Surprisingly, all are settings for serious research by Harvard Business School faculty. There's a sea change afoot in the world View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- October 1994
- Case
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery rescued its plant from the labor riots of 1987 to make it the fastest improving shipyard in the world by 1994. With its competition in Korea making huge investments in additional capacity in anticipation of the end of the...
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Management;
Machinery and Machining;
Performance Improvement;
Manufacturing Industry;
South Korea
Upton, David M., and Kim Bowon. "Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery." Harvard Business School Case 695-001, October 1994.