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  • Article

A New Interpretation of the F Statistic

By: John W. Pratt and Robert Schlaifer
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  • 1991
  • Book

Principals and Agents: The Structure of Business

By: John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser
Keywords: Organizational Structure
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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Managing the Map

You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game

By: John Hillas, Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be able to observe many instances of the play of the game; these... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Cooperation
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  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

My HBS Eureka Moment

must be prepared to do whatever it takes. Exceed Expectations Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) DURING THE FIRST OR SECOND WEEK of his first-year managerial economics course, Professor John Pratt gave us a pop quiz.... View Details
Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

estate market began to crash in early 1990, heavily exposed banks like Citibank and Chase Manhattan were left largely undercapitalized. John Reed, Citibank chairman and CEO, was caught off guard by the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

  PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

process and Davis's creative leadership and ability to cultivate talent (such as that of saxophonist John Coltrane)—many of the great jazz musicians of the 20th century came out of the informal "Miles Davis University." Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Bernardo Bertoldi, and Roberto QuagliaHarvard Business School Case 812-128 After the death of Umberto Agnelli in 2004, the Agnelli family, led by John Elkann, needs to decide whether to keep Fiat CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Trottenberg with Davis W. Pratt, December 1966. When the 1934 NAAI and Photographic Illustrators, Inc. exhibition opened in the mezzanine gallery at 30 Rockefeller Center and visitors gazed upon advertisements for Lucky Strike cigarettes... View Details
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

case:http://hbr.org/search/313036-PDF-ENG El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan John Coates, Clayton Rose, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 313-021 On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Alumni Bookshelf

Straight Talk on Investing coauthored by John J. (“Jack”) Brennan (MBA ’80) (John Wiley & Sons) Brennan, chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group, provides a hands-on, straight-forward guide to investing.... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Faculty News

by Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) to further research in the field of information technology. Others receiving chairs for the first time are Max Bazerman (Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Yardsticks of Management , 1952 John G. Bowes; William K. Bowes, Jr.; Charles W. Gardiner; Robert M. Halperin; Robert G. Hooker, Jr.; Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.; Bradford K. Kroha; Michael A. Loeb; William... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Yardsticks of Management , 1952 John G. Bowes; William K. Bowes, Jr.; Charles W. Gardiner; Robert M. Halperin; Robert G. Hooker, Jr.; Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.; Bradford K. Kroha; Michael A. Loeb; William... View Details
  • Article

A Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor's Appointment

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Mitesh S. Patel, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher F. Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie K. John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; COVID-19; Nudge; Influenza; Field Experiment; Health; Communication Strategy; Behavior
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  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit,... View Details