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  • April 2020
  • Article

Field Comparisons of Incentive-Compatible Preference Elicitation Techniques

By: Shawn A. Cole, A. Nilesh Fernando, Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman
Knowledge of consumer demand is important for firms, policy makers, and economists. One common tool for incentive-compatible demand elicitation, the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism, has been widely used in laboratory settings but rarely evaluated for... View Details
Keywords: Incentive-compatible Elicitation; Experimental Methods; Weather Insurance; Rainfall Insurance; Agricultural Extension; Demand and Consumers
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  • June 1991 (Revised December 1997)
  • Case

Takeover of the Norton Co., The

By: Thomas R. Piper
After a decade of mediocre performance, the Norton Co. enters 1990 with the prospect of increased sales in the next few years. Yet Norton is pursuing slow growth industries, and a lower than expected earnings announcement at the beginning of 1990 has depressed earnings... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Goals and Objectives; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Revenue; Bids and Bidding; Business Processes; Ownership Stake
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 09 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr
    • 05 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 5, 2008

      Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 17

    Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial service intermediaries in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    right combination of weights to maximize the load without breaking it. A coin flipping task that demonstrates the “gambler’s fallacy,” the faulty tendency to think that previous events influence a future random event. A bidding task to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 07 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: February 7

    Evaluating Air Traffic Flow Management in a Collaborative Decision-Making Environment Authors:Douglas Fearing and Cynthia Barnhart Publication:Transportation Research Record, 2206 (2011) Abstract The Collaborative Decision-Making (CDM)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    power. Publisher's link: http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amy-cuddy/presence/9780316256575/ February 2015 Prentice Hall Managerial Accounting: Making Decisions and Evaluating Performance By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav V. Rajan... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    partnerships. In 2019, Delta Air Lines proposed a $1.9 billion investment and deeper cooperation via a Joint Business Agreement, prompting LATAM to evaluate exiting oneworld and its long-standing collaboration with American Airlines. The... View Details
    • 23 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 23, 2007

    Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are hoping to forestall a third... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Research - Global

    Research September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2007
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    First Look: July 24, 2007

    that relied heavily on debt? Would Warburg Pincus Ventures be prepared to pay a price sufficient to win the bidding contest? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207125 Dressen (Abridged) (B)... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Japan - Global

    evaluate the intrinsic value of Toshiba and evaluate the alternative bids that Toshiba received from other private equity firms. The case illustrates some of the valuation... View Details
    • Web

    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy use of research subsidies as well as carbon taxes. We use the... View Details
    • 04 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

    discussions, they typically focus on specific issues, such as those mentioned in the campaign promises presented above. They then evaluate politicians based on how well the politicians' positions match their preferences on these key... View Details
    Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    (19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and View Details
    • 17 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

    typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you, 2) profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities, and 3) a methodology to identify and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
    • Web

    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    Sustainability, Innovation, Strategy, Supply Chain Management The case describes BMW's electrification and decarbonization strategy, and how the company measured carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of its vehicles and used tools like carbon abatement cost curves... View Details