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  • 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
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  • spring 1994
  • Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria
How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory
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  • November 2006
  • Case

Introducing Frequent Flyer Programs

By: Dennis A. Yao
Allows students to explore the value to American Airlines of introducing a frequent flyer program in 1981. View Details
Keywords: Value; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Competitive Advantage; Programs; Customers; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

poses and less likely in constrictive poses. Now they wanted to look into whether behavior was affected during the poses. This might help to answer questions like: Would people be more likely to join a game of online poker while using a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

coalitional games determine a unique value for games of threats. This value assigns to each player an average of the threat powers, d(S), of the coalitions that include the player. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2022
  • Article

I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure

By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits. Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Better Hiring Through Brain Science

in neuroscience research experiments—with former research colleague Julie Yoo to assess cognitive and emotional traits. The games didn’t ask personal questions, they measured responses, providing objectivity in a way that the traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 26 May 2022
  • News

Bidding Up

physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

this question in part because scholars in fields like philosophy and evolutionary psychology have put forward a concerning proposal: that people might share politicized misinformation to showcase their allegiance to their political party.... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

general goes on the attack, only to find that none of his troops actually follow him. “It seems quite possible that Toyota's model may have ossified a bit.” The book provides a very pragmatic (and detailed) look at how to achieve strategic integrity. This is not a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Video Game
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

New Releases

of both. In their new book, HBS associate professor Adam Brandenburger and Professor Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management develop a five-part business strategy based on this concept. Drawing from the science of game theory, the... View Details
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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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... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

consistent with the theory that a lower cost of recruiting rebels is an important factor in starting conflict. On the other hand, geographic factors are not significantly associated with such onset, suggesting that they instead contribute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game View Details
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

wealth-based discrimination in employee-customer relations and that envy toward wealthy customers and empathy toward those of similar economic status drive much of this illegal behavior. Implications for both theory and practice are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne