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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive Course Number 1507 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Paper This short version of BSSE will focus on core View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

with a grounding in the construction of business theories and bridging those theories to the world of practice. The hope is that we can then recognize well researched theories... View Details

10 Sep 2014
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Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations

Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth

08 Feb 2008
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Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

1985
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Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Game Theory

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2015
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The Cooperative Solution of Stochastic Games

By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman

Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general (NTU) case and uniqueness in the TU... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Game Theory

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1968
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Computer Models for Business Case Analysis

By: David Hawkins and Brandt R. Allen

Keywords: Information Technology; Theory

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Summer 1981
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Regulatory Cost Analysis: An Overview

By: David A. Garvin and Robert A. Leone

Keywords: Cost; Theory

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17 Apr 2014
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Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer & Petia Topalova

22 Dec 2006
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Future Lock-in: Or, I’ll Agree to Do the Right Thing...Next Week

Keywords: by Todd Rogers & Max H. Bazerman

18 Oct 2006
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Racial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives?

Keywords: by Modupe Akinola & David A. Thomas; Service

1992
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Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs

By: Amar Bhide and Howard Stevenson

By many accounts, sub-contracting is in the vogue while traditional employment relationships are on the outs. Ten years ago free-lancers, independent subcontractors and the like accounted for about 10 percent of the labor force; today they constitute 25 percent. Of the... View Details

Keywords: Sub-contracting; Freelancers; Employment; Organizations; Theory

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October 2020
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Collusion in Markets with Syndication

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry

Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial... View Details

Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂; Markets; Game Theory

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1982
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The Contraction Mapping Approach to the Perron-Frobenius Theory: Why Hilbert's Metric?

By: Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt

Keywords: Theory; Measurement and Metrics

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23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw famously wrote, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." But it's often more accurate to say, "He who can do can't teach." It's natural for novices to seek out experts for guidance. That's why many organizations adopt formal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

03 Feb 2011
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Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

Summing Up Our forward projections often reflect what we have just experienced. Responses to the question, "What will be the single most promising area of research or study in the next 10 years?," reflect issues that fall into the same categories—management... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

1990
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Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis

By: A. E. Roth and M. Sotomayor

Keywords: Game Theory

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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... View Details

Keywords: ＂Repeated Games＂; Folk Theorem; Private Monitoring; Observation Lag; Game Theory

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