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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
reasonably to expect. Nobody wants to play a game where they find out after the final whistle whether the high or low score wins." Stevenson, who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, developed two real estate courses with a general management... View Details
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
Working to protect the environment has been my passion for as long as I can remember. My father was my earliest inspiration. As an officer in the Indian Forest Service, he devoted his life to balancing day to day realities of economic... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
holding them accountable?” Gehl said she and Porter wondered. “What’s going on?” Porter, who studies economic development and competitiveness, said the idea to examine politics through the lens of business stemmed from his experience... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
study seeks to understand the effect of access to sex selection technologies such as ultrasound, and consequently skewed sex ratios, on the marriage market and intrahousehold outcomes of females in India. Existing economic theory and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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 before going on to his doctoral... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
buy the right to retransmit the games and sell ad space to their local advertisers. Another key principle of the Economics of Attention is that attention is valued in a "superlinear" manner, which... View Details
- Profile
Evan Rachlin
New therapies, especially those in biotechnology, are very exciting to Evan Rachlin. In his first business-related internship, Evan examined the economic side of life science at Pfizer in New York City. There, he cooperated with the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
energy sources. But lately it's turned into something of a marathon, with companies and financial institutions involved in the market slowed by regulatory and political climates that evolved in the face of new economic realities. That's... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
“With my corporate start-up experience, I know what it takes to build a company up from zero,” Chia explains. “A lot of young entrepreneurs, particularly in Asia, are quite inexperienced, and you literally have to draw the whole game plan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
eliminates a core source of international instability, and replaces expensive, tax-supported aid with productive, locally generated economic activities. Henry L. Kotkins Jr. (MBA ’72) Seattle, WA Poor Taste? Did the juxtaposition of the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
advertisements in battleground or swing states. These ads are designed to raise doubts about and paint a picture of Trump before he has enough money to hit the airwaves in earnest. Complementing this air war is Clinton's well-organized ground View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
Challenge (1996) and The Real Estate Game (1999). His research concerns the entrepreneurial process in large and small companies, capital formation in real estate, and the growth and operation of real estate companies and family... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
table, helping define the economics of the investment, and performing due diligence. I had no prior experience, but they gave me a shot, and I learned on the fly. It was empowering to be included in everything I had hoped to see. Later... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal
precious,” says Khan, who focuses primarily on software. “It’s been an incredible segment to invest in over the last few years—cloud software in particular, because these are high-gross margin businesses with low costs and long, recurring contracts.” A World View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
still do - the financial resources to write new code. Will the worldwide economic downturn complicate matters? Good question. For companies at the top of their game and well into the process, the Y2K problem... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified economic... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
Several respondents suggested that the successful use of such analytics require much more than the data itself. For example, Doug Elliott commented that "The lesson of 'Moneyball' is about knowing what to look for in the first place. You first have to be an expert... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett