Evolutionary Game Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

missions. Three, it could have simply rejected the new national security mandate. In reality, it didn’t play out in any of those ways. “Nothing in prior theory led us to expect what we observed—in essence, structural ambidexterity... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

guessing a higher-quality rating than the actual quality rating." That would explain why information doesn't "unravel" according to game theory predictions, and why companies don't voluntarily... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

other research here , Yueran’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to... View Details

Arthur Schleifer

Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; financial services; grocery; insurance industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; restaurant; retailing; software; tire; tobacco; wine

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Consulting Award for "Ambidextrous Organizations: Managing Evolutionary and Revolutionary Change" (with Charles O'Reilly, California Management Review , summer 1996). 1996 Ranjay Gulati : Won the 1996 Best Paper Award from the... View Details

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

percent Latino and 0.6 percent Asian). When it comes to NBA coaches, however, the exact opposite is true: there are six black head coaches among 30 teams, or just 20 percent of the league. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

steadily solves unique problems, it builds the ability to do whatever is required to succeed in its context. When the incumbent has retreated into the highest tiers of its market and has to fight because there is no room for further retreat, it is at a competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

real exchange rates and the fallacy of composition, Mark Setterfield (ed), Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. Canuto, Otaviano, Mona Haddad, Gordon Hanson (2010), Export-led Growth v2.0,... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

1990
Book

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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January 1982
Background Note

Bluffing at Poker I

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Game Theory

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1985
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Differential Information, the Market and Incentive Compatibility

By: Jerry Green

Keywords: Game Theory; Economics

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January 1982
Background Note

Bluffing at Poker II

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Game Theory

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1985
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Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Game Theory

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1992
Book

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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Article

The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests

By: Hau Chan, David C. Parkes and Karim R. Lakhani

Crowdsourcing platforms operate by offering their clients the ability to obtain cost-effective solutions for their problems through contests. The top contestants with the best solutions are rewarded, and the submitted solutions are provided to the clients. Within the... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Game Theory

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