Search And Bargaining - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

pedestrians, correctly assigning an intention score (Do they want to cross the street?) and an awareness score (Do they know there is a car?) to each. Guided by technology developed by Perceptive Automata, the company cofounded by Misra,... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Jonathan Evans

what drives and interests me, and about what careers will best offer the opportunity to make an impact. The career office provides structure with innumerable resources, from career coaches with expertise in... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entertainment / Media

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Froot used a careful examination of a single transaction in the emerging market for catastrophic risk bonds to motivate a search for explanations for anomalies in the pricing and structure of this market.... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

consultant told him, but Vaccaro politely declined. His current business model, such as it is, works just fine. And the search for additional models continues. DeCoons sees boutique studios dedicated solely... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

infancy. That, in turn, led to an experience working with a wealthy family in medical philanthropy searching for a cure for a rare dementia, and the idea for Aging2.0. "This combined my interest in trends... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Chipotle Mexican Grill’s ongoing struggle to win customers back months after a contaminated food crisis highlights the challenges companies face with keeping food safe. Chipotle has seen its shares tumble and recently reported its... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

a definitive way to identify the difference between the good and the great. Underlying this is a belief that top candidates achieved what they did because of innate talent. Recruiters search for those... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

Profile

Jennifer Hurford

Jennifer's search for reasonable answers, she had focused her attention on microfinance, "which led me to impact investing. How do we grow small- and medium-sized businesses that can have greater... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

tours in Baghdad between 1994 and 1997. Returned to Baghdad last June and July to assist with search for WMD. Christopher B. Howard (MBA ’03), Major, U.S Air Force Chief of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

Fast Answer

Identifiers Available by Database

Which identifiers can be searched in each financial database? Gathering data from several different financial databases can be challenging. There are identifiers that these databases have in common, that can make the... View Details

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

courted earlier, but at the risk of destroying future trust in search of immediate "in-house" profit. They can force suppliers, consumers, competitors, and complementors to bend to their will in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Evelyne White

Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Services

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

recognize that expressing dissent can be very difficult and uncomfortable for lower-level managers and employees. Therefore, leaders cannot wait for dissent to come to them; they must actively go seek it out... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

for you.” I’m not sure how I made it through the last exam, having realized that I needed to start my job search all over again. I called him to tell him my decision, and he said to come over so that we... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

visiting professor at HBS who teaches in the School’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) global immersion course, which sends groups of students all over the world to get first-hand experience doing business in an unfamiliar location. This... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

happens then? Will it, like the German intelligence in World War II when it was fed massive amounts of both incorrect and correct information by the British, simply grind to a halt? Or will this just create a growing market for thus far... View Details