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  • 1992
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Cheap Talk about Monetary Policy

Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Money; Banking Industry
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Stein, Jeremy. "Cheap Talk about Monetary Policy." In New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell. London: Macmillan Press, 1992.
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Cheap Talk vs. Costly Signals: Corporate Purpose and Employee Sorting

By: Hyunjin Kim and Daniel A. Brown
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Kim, Hyunjin, and Daniel A. Brown. "Cheap Talk vs. Costly Signals: Corporate Purpose and Employee Sorting." Working Paper, June 2018.
  • March 1989
  • Article

Cheap Talk and the Fed: A Theory of Imprecise Policy Announcements

Keywords: Theory; Policy; Announcements; Central Banking; United States
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Stein, Jeremy. "Cheap Talk and the Fed: A Theory of Imprecise Policy Announcements." American Economic Review 79, no. 1 (March 1989): 32–42.
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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets

Many labor markets share three stylized facts: employers cannot give full attention to all candidates, candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this... View Details
Keywords: Signaling; Matching; Cheap Talk; Congestion; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Communication; Job Search
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Coles, Peter A., Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle. "Preference Signaling in Matching Markets." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 5, no. 2 (May 2013): 99–134.
  • July 2007
  • Article

A Two-Person Game of Information Transmission

By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy L. Stokey
We consider a statistical decision problem faced by a two player organization whose members may not agree on outcome evaluations and prior probabilities. One player is specialized in gathering information and transmitting it to the other, who takes the decision. This... View Details
Keywords: Game Theory; Cheap Talk; Communication Games; Communication; Information
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Green, Jerry R., and Nancy L. Stokey. "A Two-Person Game of Information Transmission." Journal of Economic Theory 135, no. 1 (July 2007): 90–104.
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

don't work out.” How does it apply? (or, Why there is no “normal” to come back to) Your state, industry, organization—or unconscious mind—may be pinning hopes on some other event or date after which some version of “rescue” will come: a vaccine, a cure, a reliable and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

the “basic goods” you have to offer that will enrich others It’s what cofounders Arch “Beaver” Aplin III and Don Wasek did when they opened their first Buc-ee’s gas station in Lake Worth, Texas, in 1982. They focused on the things they figured travelers needed most:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

things like fires, but no one could have planned for an entire industry being shut down for months at a time.” Paul Brown agreed. “It’s one thing to talk about a pandemic. It’s quite another to talk about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

many more dimensions of difference now. It's health status, it's family status. When we talk about inclusion, it's not OK if I make you feel more included at the expense of someone else feeling excluded. That's a View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

world's development on cheap fossil fuel, GEAPP highlights the challenges a need for innovative approaches in the absence of a playbook for developing without relying on inexpensive fuel sources. BEST Field Visit: Overview: BEST is a... View Details
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the Art of American Advertising - Advertising Products

Chromolithographs—lithographs printed in multiple colors by means of a complex process of color separation that used one stone for each color—produced stunning, eye-catching advertisements in bold tones. “Even a cheap label has a depth... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

data. But higher costs for materials, manufacturing, shipping and trucking, and COVID safety measures, coupled with unprecedented competition for workers, are testing the endurance of retailers, especially those who rely heavily on cheap... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
  • 13 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

something new; Davis pushed his musicians "to the edge," but he did it in a way that effectively managed the risks. This might be something we can learn from in business as well.   This year is the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue. And it still... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • News

Merlin Entertainments Taps Scott O’Neil as CEO

our opportunity there, more than anything else, is that we, the leaders—we have to be what we say we want to be. Talk is cheap and talk is easy, but from our perspective it's... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

doing is greater than the value of thinking about how to do. Cheap and rapid iteration allows us to substitute experience for planning. Rather than "Get it right the first time," our battle cry becomes "Make it great before... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • News

Bringing Power to the People

Xavier Barbaro (MBA 2006) is CEO of Neoen, a French firm that generates electricity from renewable sources, operating in multiple countries. In this interview, he talks about how the electricity the company produces is bringing power to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

told me, ‘You have a community of people who work with you — it's your job to take care of them.' “When a company competes by using cheap labor, essentially they are saying, ‘I have an advantage because my people are poorer than yours,'”... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

evolution, he analogizes them to mainframes, minicomputers, and microprocessor-based systems, respectively. Lassiter talks about the promise of next-generation nuclear power, and introduces some of the key players in the field. "If you... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

widely accepted and utilized in much of the rest of the world, remain virtually unknown in North America. “I suspect it boils down to the following: Too cheap + too simple = minimal profit. Not my idea of responsible capitalism,” he says.... View Details
Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture
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