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- 27 Sep 2009
- News
Opting in vs. Opting Out
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin View Details
- 14 Aug 2017
- Conference Presentation
A Convex Framework for Fair Regression
By: Richard Berk, Hoda Heidari, Shahin Jabbari, Matthew Joseph, Michael J. Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern, Seth Neel and Aaron Roth
We introduce a flexible family of fairness regularizers for (linear and logistic) regression problems. These regularizers all enjoy convexity, permitting fast optimization, and they span the range from notions of group fairness to strong individual fairness. By varying...
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Berk, Richard, Hoda Heidari, Shahin Jabbari, Matthew Joseph, Michael J. Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern, Seth Neel, and Aaron Roth. "A Convex Framework for Fair Regression." Paper presented at the 4th Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning, Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), August 14, 2017.
- March 1996 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Dewar's (A): Brand Repositioning in the 1990's
By: Alvin J. Silk and Lisa Klein Pearo
Dewar's, a major brand of Scotch whisky, produced by United Distillers of the U.K., and the U.S. leader in the Scotch category with a 15% market share, faced a declining market among traditional consumers of distilled spirits. Given the growing societal, legal, and...
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Advertising;
Customers;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Market Participation;
Strategic Planning;
Opportunities;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Silk, Alvin J., and Lisa Klein Pearo. "Dewar's (A): Brand Repositioning in the 1990's." Harvard Business School Case 596-076, March 1996. (Revised November 1997.)
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Presentations Friday, May 31, 2024 Dean's Welcome Address Dean Srikant Datar + More Info – Less Info Dean Srikant Datar kicks off Reunion Weekend by sharing his key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School's impact in...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2008
- News
Matchmaker, mathmaker
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23...
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Martha Lagace
- 2013
- Article
How Concentrated Is the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry? Myth vs. Reality
By: Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III
We analyze changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services industry using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's quinquennial Economic Census and the Service Annual Survey. These data, heretofore largely ignored, allow us to redress some of...
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Concentration Levels;
Data;
U.S. Census Bureau’s Quinquennial Economic Census And The Service Annual Survey;
Measurement Problems;
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index;
Concentration Ratios;
Advertising;
Advertising Industry;
North and Central America
Silk, Alvin J., and Charles King III. "How Concentrated Is the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry? Myth vs. Reality." Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising 34, no. 1 (2013): 166–193.
- Awards
Nobel
By: Alvin E. Roth
Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics with Lloyd Shapley for their research on market design and matching theory.
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2133004 Don't Take 'No' for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations By: Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth Abstract—Over 10,000 people in the U.S. die...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 1996 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses
By: Alvin J. Silk, Bruce Issacson and Marie Bell
Vistakon, an independent and entrepreneurial subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, pioneered the production and marketing of disposable contact lenses with the 1987 launch of Acuvue, the first disposable extended-wear lens--a soft contact lens that patients wear for a...
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Advertising Campaigns;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Startups;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Price;
Risk Management;
Marketing;
Product Positioning;
Production;
Performance Effectiveness;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Silk, Alvin J., Bruce Issacson, and Marie Bell. "Vistakon: 1 Day Acuvue Disposable Contact Lenses." Harvard Business School Case 596-087, March 1996. (Revised February 1999.)
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
paid forward in kind, greed was paid forward more than generosity. This asymmetry was driven by negative affect, such that a positive affect intervention disrupted the tendency to pay greed forward. Implications for models of generalized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis
By: Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael and Alvin J. Silk
The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study investigates the extent of such outsourcing and examines inter-industry variation in the use of...
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Advertising;
Cost;
Analytics and Data Science;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Service Operations;
Creativity;
Perception;
Vertical Integration;
Information Technology;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Horsky, Sharon, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-007, July 2008.
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September–October 2021
- Article
Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm
By: Alvin J. Silk, Birger Wernerfelt and Shuyi Yu
In 1956, a group of trade associations representing publishers and independent advertising agencies signed a consent decree aimed at ending a set of trade practices that for half a century effectively precluded advertisers from owning and operating in-house agencies....
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Internationalization;
Specialization;
Theory Of The Firm;
Advertising Agencies;
Advertising;
Organizational Structure;
Theory
Silk, Alvin J., Birger Wernerfelt, and Shuyi Yu. "Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm." Marketing Science 40, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 946–963.
- 18 Nov 2016
- Conference Presentation
Rawlsian Fairness for Machine Learning
By: Matthew Joseph, Michael J. Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
Motivated by concerns that automated decision-making procedures can unintentionally lead to discriminatory behavior, we study a technical definition of fairness modeled after John Rawls' notion of "fair equality of opportunity". In the context of a simple model of...
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Joseph, Matthew, Michael J. Kearns, Jamie Morgenstern, Seth Neel, and Aaron Leon Roth. "Rawlsian Fairness for Machine Learning." Paper presented at the 3rd Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning, Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD), November 18, 2016.
- Research Summary
By: Alvin E. Roth
For further information, please go to my
Game Theory,Experimental Economics, and Market Design Page.
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- 2013
- Chapter
In 100 Years
By: Alvin E. Roth
Roth, Alvin E. "In 100 Years." Chap. 7 in In 100 Years: Leading Economists Predict the Future, edited by Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, 109–119. MIT Press, 2013.