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  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

Baldwin, and Christopher L. Magee Abstract Hierarchy is a generic structure in which levels are asymmetrically ordered. In an industry setting, classic supply chains display strict hierarchy, whereas clusters of firms have linkages going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

A series of experiments demonstrates this pattern in competitive contexts in which considering others' perspectives activates egoistic theories of their likely behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

a web of conflicting constraints prematurely, before managers have explored a wide enough range of possibilities. A key role of organizing is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 22

further acted as a lightning rod such that team members' emotional responses to them were constant reminders of subgroup differences on these teams, which further fueled negative emotions. Our findings extend View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

approachable easily consumable and highly relatable—they can help listeners understand what makes HBS distinctive and how it’s making a difference in the world.” Brian Kenny Chief Marketing & Communications Officer “The Disruptive Voice” explores the View Details
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

present three main findings. First, consistent with theories of countersignaling, top schools are least likely to disclose their rankings, whereas mid-ranked schools are most likely to disclose. Second,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2012
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

consolidate and share such potential. Exciting advances in related fields such as brain research, identity, ethics, adult development, communications, positive psychology, human intelligence and educational theory require a single source... View Details
Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education
  • Article

Reputation When Threats and Transfers Are Available

By: Ernesto Dal Bo, Pedro Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We present a model where a long-run player is allowed to use both money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. We show that threats might be used credibly (even in arbitrarily short repeated games) by a long-lived player... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Interests; Power and Influence; Reputation
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  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

older student who had lived and worked as an adult in the “real world”—and the same was true of Roy and Ted—I really felt the lack of those things. DARDEN: Dean Baker was interested in what we were saying.... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason for innovative activities to take place inside the boundaries of an organization. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

First Community Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
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  • Winter 2017
  • Article

Why Big Data Isn't Enough

By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih
There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any preconceived hypotheses. But in businesses that involve scientific research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Science-based; Science; Scientific Research; Data Analytics; Data Science; Data-driven Management; Data Scientists; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; Theory
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

On Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions

By: Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu and Michael Schwarz
How should players bid in keyword auctions such as those used by Google, Yahoo! and MSN? We model ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Competitive Strategy
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  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

bribes paid, including the bribe amount, the name of the corrupt official, and services rendered. The ipaidabribe.com portal then aggregates these data to create maps and charts of corrupt activities across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Nov 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

discuss how they define creativity, the kinds of questions they have addressed, theories they have proposed, and they provide a description of their research including the most... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman