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Di Bai
positions at Proctor & Gamble and McKinsey where she could, "learn and apply best practices from established companies." After five years of work, Di wanted more: more practical business lessons, more international exposure...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these services or imagine life without them. A few...
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- 25 Oct 2013
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Cardinals' DeWitt Family Has Decades-Old Roots in Baseball
- October 2003
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Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games
By: David J. Cooper, Nick Feltovich, Alvin E. Roth and Rami Zwick
Cooper, David J., Nick Feltovich, Alvin E. Roth, and Rami Zwick. "Relative versus Absolute Speed of Adjustment in Strategic Environments: Responder Behavior in Ultimatum Games." Experimental Economics 6, no. 2 (October 2003): 181–207.
- 04 Sep 2019
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Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
Smart Venues “There’s long been this tension between the experience of live sports in a venue versus the comfort of watching on TV at home. And broadcasts have improved dramatically. So now stadium-goers are increasingly expecting their experience at the game to be as...
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- 1988
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The Expected Utility of Playing a Game
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "The Expected Utility of Playing a Game." In The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley, edited by A. E. Roth, 51–70. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- 01 Mar 2010
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You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of deposit, earning a chance to win...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Mark Tatum
vice president of the university's Black Alumni Association. Working at Procter & Gamble after graduation, he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. As a regional sales...
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Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
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Oil Industry Photographs - New Directions: Building Baker Library's Collections
accidentally turned out.” Within a short time, the area had transformed into sprawling, dirty boomtowns with oil wells, gambling casinos, and hotels. Investors hoping to strike it rich and men searching for work populated the area. Women...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key
CHARAN: Drawing on his global consulting experience. LAFLEY: Customers are “the boss.” Photo courtesy Proctor & Gamble What does it take to delight low-income Mexican buyers of sanitary pads? The answer is not a punch line to a poor joke;...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Noted & Quoted
Record, July 4, 2010) “You may be Procter & Gamble and selling soap, but if you are in India you may also have to do housing.” — HBS professor Tarun Khanna talking about why Western companies should consider making social investments a...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated the way you might expect it to be: lots of technology and...
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Alex Roth
For four years, Alex Roth studied chemistry at Oxford. But instead of following the traditional path to the PhD, Alex took a position with Procter & Gamble where held positions in Finance and Marketing. "I want to marry science...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator Demand for Contest-based Entertainment
By: Patrick J. Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani
Contests that are designed to be consumed for entertainment by non-contestants are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. In this paper, we examine whether individuals prefer to consume contests that have more uncertain outcomes. We look to...
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Contest Design;
Information Preferences;
Consumer Demand;
Sports;
Entertainment;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Demand and Consumers;
Outcome or Result
Ferguson, Patrick J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator Demand for Contest-based Entertainment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-087, February 2021.
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Considerations of Fairness and Strategy: Experimental Data from Sequential Games
By: V. Prasnikar and A. E. Roth
Prasnikar, V., and A. E. Roth. "Considerations of Fairness and Strategy: Experimental Data from Sequential Games." Quarterly Journal of Economics 107, no. 3 (August 1992): 865–888.
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
In the first part of “Classroom Hijinks” last week, I discussed catchphrases, cheers, and mascots as examples of section spirit engendered by the fortunate decision to have a first-year section’s courses all taught in the same classroom. Here I cover the classroom...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Adventure in Reading
Jeff Norton (MBA ’03) credits the old Choose Your Own Adventure book series, where young readers could pick different plot directions, with making a difference in his life. “I was a reluctant reader as a boy,” Norton told Toronto’s Globe and Mail (September 23, 2006)....
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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Last Look
Who, what, where, when, and why .we’d appreciate any information that will help us identify what’s going on in this photograph plucked from the archives of Baker Library. Please contact us at bulletin@hbs.edu, or HBS Alumni Bulletin, Teele Hall 361, Soldiers Field,...
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