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- June 2013
- Case
Hess Corporation
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
On January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer, which owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and... View Details
- 2013
- Article
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that... View Details
- November 2008
- Case
Associated Petroleum
By: John W. Rosenblum and Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Energy Industry
- 2008
- Working Paper
Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division
By: John W. Pratt
Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their entitlements if they receive nothing else. The "price" procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash... View Details
- 2008
- Book
Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory
By: John W. Pratt, Howard Raiffa and Robert Schlaifer
- December 2007
- Article
Fair (and Not So Fair) Division
By: John W. Pratt
Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Fair (and Not So Fair) Division
By: John W. Pratt
Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game
By: John Hillas, Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be able to observe many instances of the play of the game; these... View Details
- March 2007 (Revised February 2009)
- Background Note
How to Crack a Strategy Case
By: Stephen P. Bradley, David J. Collis, Kevin P. Coyne, Andrei Hagiu, Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Jan W. Rivkin and John R. Wells
Addresses a common concern among strategy students: "How should I tackle this case?" Describes a process for diagnosing a strategic situation, then generating, evaluating, and choosing among strategic options. View Details
- June 2005
- Supplement
Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (DVD)
By: John A. Davis, Dwight B. Crane, Kelly Mulderry and Jay W. Lorsch
- June 2005
- Supplement
Hancock Land Company and Hancock Lumber Company (VHS Video)
By: John A. Davis, Dwight B. Crane and Jay W. Lorsch
- June 2005 (Revised September 2008)
- Class Lecture
Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
By: Bharat N. Anand, Stephen P. Bradley, Pankaj Ghemawat, Tarun Khanna, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, Michael G. Rukstad, John R. Wells and David B. Yoffie
It's great to have a blockbuster quarter or a revolutionary product or service, but true business excellence demands sustainability. Maintaining your competitive advantage requires a strategy that makes your business unique and carries you forward as the world around... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
- December 2000
- Article
Efficient Risk Sharing: The Last Frontier
By: John W. Pratt
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
- July 1998
- Teaching Note
Hawthorne Plastics, Inc. TN
By: Paul W. Marshall, John S. Hammond and William L Berry
Teaching Note for (9-171-004). View Details
- 1997
- Manual
A Solution Manual to 'The Econometrics of Financial Markets'
By: Luis M. Viceira, Petr Adamek, John Y. Campbell, Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay
Keywords: Financial Markets
- 1997
- Article
Increasing Risk: Some Direct Constructions
By: John W. Pratt and Mark J. Machina
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty