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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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
at the current financial crisis in hopes of solving it? I draw a parallel between the natural world and the financial world in the concluding part of the book and sketch out a rough evolutionary theory of... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch, and Adam Tatarynowicz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5
demonstrate, through a reexamination of Cachon and Lariviere (2001), how the application of the Undefeated refinement can substantively extend the implications of extant signaling game theory in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010
Amy J.C. Cuddy, Ruwan Gunatilake, and Meredith HodgesHarvard Business School Exercise 911-013 This exercise is based on the popular group game "Mafia" and is designed to give students a broad introduction to multiple View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
negotiations can affect interaction processes and how negotiations can be not only a solution to, but also a source of, inter-organizational conflict. Principals, agents, and teams face different sets of constraints and opportunities in negotiations. We develop... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
challenges facing those who wish to use game theory to assist in strategic and tactical decision making. Purchase this overview: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/707475-PDF-ENG Merger of Equals: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Reichheld, maintains that it isn't new market forces that make loyalty so elusive in the digital arena — it's faulty leadership. Applying his breakthrough loyalty theories to the digital economy, the author shows that the Web can actually... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Frida Polli (MBA 2012) is the CEO and cofounder of pymetrics, which uses neuroscience-based games to help match people to their perfect careers. In this episode, she talks... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
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Solutions to these challenges are the province of market design—a blend of game theory and experimental economics. Roth, a professor of both business and economics at Harvard, is a leading market designer.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
and friend for over 30 years. The bulk of this article develops an account of his intellectual trajectory from game theory to statistical decision theory to decision analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne