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- 2010
- Working Paper
Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment
By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Education;
Marketplace Matching;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Behavior;
Personal Characteristics
Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais, and Marc Vorsatz. "Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-093, April 2010.
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been called...
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Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates
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Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
Picture two schools with the same demographics—rural middle schools, for example, that serve equally high-need populations. Both use the same state-mandated curriculum taught by certified teachers. Why is one View Details
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University Collaborations
- 17 Apr 2015
- HBS Seminar
Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Web
Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Professor Benjamin N. Roth; Assistant Professor Natalia Rigol Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (Spring Q3Q4) Professor Robert Simons Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks (Fall Q1Q2) Senior Lecturer John Macomber...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the...
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- 09 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Robert A. Miller, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or...
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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The practice of investment is changing. A rapidly growing share of assets around the globe are making investment choices targeting not just return, but also sustainability, values-alignment or impact. More than $23 trillion assets...
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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
schools in the US had access to the ... School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L....
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- 14 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
- 23 Oct 2024
- HBS Seminar
Rosa Ferrer, University of Pampa Fabra and Barcelona School of Economics
- 14 Nov 2018
- HBS Seminar
Lindsey Cameron, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- 2017
- Working Paper
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top...
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Education;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Marketplace Matching;
Mathematical Methods;
Design
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux. "Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23265, March 2017.
- 16 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience
such as nuances in personality types and their respective implications in business and social environments. Summer Internship A big question at business school is what type of summer internship one should pursue. While there are lots...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business View Details
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- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The View Details
- December 2009
- Article
Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Secondary Education;
Marketplace Matching;
Performance Efficiency;
Mathematical Methods;
Motivation and Incentives;
Strategy;
Balance and Stability
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth. "Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match." American Economic Review 99, no. 5 (December 2009). (AER links to access the Appendix and Downloadable Data Set.)
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics
By: Doug J. Chung
I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the "Flutie Effect." I treat athletic success as a stock of goodwill that decays over...
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Choice Modeling;
Entertainment Marketing;
Heterogeneity;
Panel Data;
Structural Modeling;
Rights;
Analytics and Data Science;
Higher Education;
Ethics;
Consumer Behavior;
Advertising;
Sports;
Advertising Industry;
Education Industry
Chung, Doug J. "The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics." Marketing Science 32, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 679–698. (Lead article. Featured in HBS Working Knowledge.)