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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
the data generated by your work? What if instead, you find yourself the owner of data generated by people you employ? How should you use it to remain competitive? What are the ethical and social implications of the choices you make? We will use View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
intended both to improve the oper-ation of business by linking economic theory with practice and to serve as a showpiece for HBS research. The magazine's first decades were marked by financial losses. But in the late 1940s the School took... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
predictive and prescriptive implications, this theory contributes to the general notion that pricing might affect as much as capture perceived value. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-055.pdf Capital Structure with Risky Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Working Paper
Competing Complements
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff and David B. Yoffie
In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Barry Nalebuff, and David B. Yoffie. "Competing Complements." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-009, July 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
phenomena—and make meaningful predictions in rapidly changing global markets. In particular, Dafna gravitated toward questions related to the challenges new automation and digital technologies pose to job security and businesses. “Historical evidence and economic View Details
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Data Visualization for Analysis and Communication - Course Catalog
that require building visualizations as well as extended in-class critiques. Objectives include: An understanding of the basic theory behind data visualization: perceptual science, design, and technical underpinnings, as well as how to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic View Details
- June 2011
- Article
Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor
By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Policy; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias; Poverty; Welfare
Fong, Christina, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor." Special Issue on Charitable Giving and Fundraising Journal of Public Economics 95, nos. 5-6 (June 2011): 436–444.
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Evan Rachlin
targets—companies, drugs, and licenses—while applying game theory to improve the way Pfizer makes decisions. Satisfying as it was, the job whetted Evan's appetite for a larger role. "I believe I can make a difference if I work... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
an example from his days as Trade and Industry Minister. “When we deregulated the energy markets in Singapore, I remember the cases I did on energy deregulation in the U.S., the whole theory of marginal pricing, and so on. It was very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
provide a sketch of the most promising research about regulation, identify guiding principles for policymakers, and illustrate these principles with concrete policy proposals. Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice edited by Nitin... View Details
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Lindsay Hyde
chance to test strategies on the ground,” Lindsay says, “gives you so much more insight than working with theory alone.” Exploring options for social enterprise “The whole reason I came to business school,” says Lindsay, “is to learn how... View Details
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library
The Theory of Moral Sentiments , collected works, and miscellaneous writings. Hancock Family Papers Papers, dated 1664-1854, containing business and personal correspondence, financial records, and legal papers of Thomas Hancock, John... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
company’s strategy, or you have a rival who could block your path to the C-suite. Listen Now! The Disruptive Voice Explores the theories of disruptive innovation with academics, researchers, and practitioners who have been inspired and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
that use approaches like game theory will be able to better predict an attack and determine what we can do to avoid them in the first place. But A.I. will only be as good as the people who develop it. Is bulletproof security achievable in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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New Releases
California, leading scholars in economics, psychology, statistics, and decision theory grapple with strategic uncertainty and the question of how to make wise choices. The 23 papers in this collection—which include those of HBS authors... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a... View Details
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne