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  • December 2022
  • Article

Divergence Between Employer and Employee Understandings of Passion: Theory and Implications for Future Research

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Hannah Weisman
There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have different understandings of passion that potentially conflict. More specifically, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Capital; Performance Effectiveness; Management Style
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Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research View Details
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On Derivatives Markets and Social Welfare: A Theory of Empty Voting and Hidden Ownership

By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
In the past twenty-five years, derivatives markets have grown exponentially. Large, modern derivatives markets increasingly enable investors to hold economic interests in corporations without owning voting rights, and vice versa. This leads to both empty... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Markets; Ownership
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
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  • October 2017
  • Article

Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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  • 1990
  • Other Unpublished Work

The High Price of Land and the Low Cost of Capital: Theory and Evidence from Japan

By: David S. Scharfstein, Anil Kashyap and David Weil
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Japan
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  • 20 Dec 2021
  • News

Psychological Safety in Theory and In Practice

    The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

    We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such... View Details
    • 12 Jul 2016
    • News

    Prof. Howard Raiffa, Giant in Game Theory and Decision Analysis, Dies at 92

    • November 2024
    • Article

    On the Representativeness of Voter Turnout

    By: Louis Kaplow and Scott Duke Kominers
    Prominent theory research on voting analyzes a variety of models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many... View Details
    Keywords: Voting Behavior; Voting Turnout; Paradox Of Voting; Pivotality; Elections; Model; Theory; Governance Transparency; Government; Democracy; Turnout; Voting; Governance; Government and Politics; Public Sector; Political Elections
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    • 1994
    • Working Paper

    Hard Problems, Godel's Theorem, Dostoyevsky's Devil, and Idiopathic Neuroses: Reflections on the Structure of Theories of Organization

    By: M. C. Moldoveanu and H. H. Stevenson
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory

    By: Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack and John Rusnak
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    • 15 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • 1994
    • Working Paper

    Evaluating Trade Policies New Instruments: Theory and Policy of Voluntary Import Expansion (VIE)

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
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    • June 1977
    • Article

    An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees : An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory

    By: Robert C. Merton
    Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Financing and Loans; Price; Theory
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    • July 2007
    • Article

    A Two-Person Game of Information Transmission

    By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy L. Stokey
    We consider a statistical decision problem faced by a two player organization whose members may not agree on outcome evaluations and prior probabilities. One player is specialized in gathering information and transmitting it to the other, who takes the decision. This... View Details
    Keywords: Game Theory; Cheap Talk; Communication Games; Communication; Information
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    • November 2006
    • Background Note

    Technical Game Theory Note #4: Contracting and Strategic Alliances

    By: Dennis A. Yao
    Provides a game theory-based interpretation of contracting and strategic alliances and introduces the problem of moral hazard. View Details
    Keywords: Contracts; Alliances; Game Theory
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    • November 2006
    • Background Note

    Technical Game Theory Note #6: Multiple-Round Games and Reputations

    By: Dennis A. Yao
    Provides a game theory-based interpretation of reputations and reputation building. View Details
    Keywords: Game Theory; Mathematical Methods; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Reputation; Debates; Strategy; Performance Consistency; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Education Industry
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    • 19 Jul 2016
    • News

    Why there are so many conspiracy theories about the Turkish coup

    • 1 Sep 1984
    • Conference Presentation

    Ensuring Minority Achievement in Corporations: The Importance of Structural Theory and Structural Change

    By: R. M. Kanter
    Keywords: Diversity; Success; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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