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- 2021
- Working Paper
Quantifying the Inefficiency of Multi-unit Auctions for Normal Goods
By: Brian Baisa and Simon Essig Aberg
We study multi-unit auctions for homogenous goods in a private value setting where bidders have non-quasilinear preferences. Several recent impossibility results study this setting and find there is no mechanism that retains the Vickrey auction’s desired incentive and... View Details
Baisa, Brian, and Simon Essig Aberg. "Quantifying the Inefficiency of Multi-unit Auctions for Normal Goods." Working Paper, August 2021.
- April 2019
- Article
Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence
By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Innovation; Contest; Incentives; Free-rider Problem; Healthcare Organizations; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Perspective
Blasco, Andrea, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. "Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 160 (April 2019): 214–229.
- 30 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
helps modulate social interactions and emotion. Being kind is good for our own and our employees' mental health." And that translates to improved... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Apr 2016
- News
New Research: Women Who Don’t Negotiate Might Have a Good Reason
- 11 Sep 2021
- News
Direct-To-Consumer Retailers Try to Bring Pizzazz to Dull Goods
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Tapon (MBA 1997) REISNER: More than email itself, what really had an impact was the loss of first-class mail to electronic bill paying, starting in 2008. But the point is a good one, and 3D printing is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovations in Good Times and Bad
Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- News
Why Social Change is Good for Business
- July 2014
- Case
Accounting for Virtual Goods at Zynga
By: Paul Healy, Gwen Yu and Aldo Sesia
Healy, Paul, Gwen Yu, and Aldo Sesia. "Accounting for Virtual Goods at Zynga." Harvard Business School Case 115-005, July 2014.
- 05 Jul 2016
- News
Being a Good Boss in Dark Times
- 08 Jun 2013
- News
Schumpeter: Too much of a good thing
- May–June 1979
- Article
A Good Job is Hard to Find
By: R. M. Kanter
Keywords: Jobs and Positions
Kanter, R. M. "A Good Job is Hard to Find." Working Papers for a New Society 7 (May–June 1979): 44–50.
- December 2009
- Teaching Note
Diageo and East African Breweries Ltd.: Tapping New Markets for Social Good (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [310010]. View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All
Zalando is a fairly unknown brand in the U.S., but the leading online fashion platform in Europe. Growing at a yearly rate of +20%, it was founded 10 years ago and it currently has more than 15,000 employees View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 22 Dec 2014
- News
Good Deeds Help Companies Evade Regulatory Scrutiny
- 13 Aug 2012
- News
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
- 2014
- Book
Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
This book is the Spanish edition of our award winning paper "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013. The book examines the effects of foreign bank entry into Mexico. Foreign banks... View Details
Keywords: Banks And Banking; Mexico; Commercial Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; Competition; Financial Markets; Banking Industry; Mexico
Haber, Stephen, and Aldo Musacchio. Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]. Mexico City, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, 2014, Spanish ed. Electronic.
- 18 May 2015
- News