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- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
school is sufficient to produce the set of student optimal stable matchings. Our main theoretical result is that a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism that breaks indifferences the same way at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
living organisms, promising a new, unimaginable future where humans capabilities could be enhanced, aging could be reversed, new forms of life created, and new custom designed materials could be grown rather than manufactured. Companies... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed stronger venture capital markets over 1990-2008, especially in high volatility sectors. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
its “industrial Internet,” an open global network of machines, data, and people that provides analytics and designs solutions to optimize its customers’ complex operations. “The paradigm is not displacement... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
viable business out of their groundbreaking technology. The case raises issues in entrepreneurship and B2B marketing such as analyzing economic value to the customer, designing optimal price metrics,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224 commercials. We use a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
"T-shaped managers," that is, they focus on individual unit performance (the vertical part of the T) and contributions across units (the horizontal part of the T). BP has put in place several mechanisms to nurture T-shaped... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Who are you & what are you building? I am Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023), CEO and cofounder of Celeste. My background is in Mechanical Engineering and Human Centered Design, product leadership, and innovation consulting. I am... View Details
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
advisors, the chance to experience five design cycles, and the opportunity to tap into Harvard’s vast network of leaders and founders, these students will leave Harvard with 2 degrees and the toolkit they need to become leaders of... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
Krach began his career as the youngest-ever vice president of General Motors, at the age of 26. He was also the founder of GMF Robotics, a joint venture between GM and Fanuc. From there, Krach joined the founding team of Rasna Corporation, which created a new... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
impact of alumni giving, plus inspiring donor profiles, visit HBS’s annual Contributors Report. VISIT REPORT For more stories that illustrate the impact of alumni giving, plus inspiring donor profiles, visit HBS’s annual Contributors Report. VISIT REPORT WHOOP strap... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
higher bonus." By contrast, in the traditional mode, where the salon employs the stylists, the competitive pressure is absent, so the salon would have to pay a higher bonus in order to motivate them to the same extent. Thus, this View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
are incompatible mediated the relationship between ambient cultural disharmony and creativity. Alternative mechanisms such as negative affect and cognitive disruption were not viable mediators. Although ambient cultural disharmony... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism that the literature... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
mechanisms by which multinational activity might create positive effects and externalities to countries and the role of complementary local conditions, also known as “absorptive capacities,” that allow a country to reap the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
Students in the new joint MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program have the opportunity to participate in five design cycles, which build the skills needed to take a product concept from hunch to launch. Students in the new joint MS/MBA:... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
some time in training before they can legally sell their services. These requirements are meant to screen out low quality providers. So fundamentally, occupational licensing exists to increase consumer trust in service providers, just like online reputation View Details