Agents - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

by asymmetric information—in other words, managers have a lot of information, and investors don’t know if they can trust them. We’re all engaged in a large information game where agents don’t always do what their principals want them to.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

some of the most urgent problems facing modern societies, we find American business schools propagating the doctrine of shareholder primacy and the paradigm of the manager as the mere agent of the company's "owners". Taken in... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

Web

Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

activate the developer, and a standard fixing agent (hypo). Another set of rollers squeezed the negative-positive sandwich out of the camera, and a dry positive print was peeled away from the negative. Traditional photographic processing... View Details

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

(shortcuts) when making these decisions. This behavioral approach (to distinguish it from a completely rational agent approach), however, introduces biases in the supply chain management decisions. We use the term bias here to represent... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law

Web

Harvard Business School

company's devices enable agents from the Department of Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection, and about sixty foreign governments to detect even the most cleverly concealed drugs, cash, and guns. Harris notes, “I... View Details

01 Jan 2014
News

To Spot Financial Trouble Early, Use Three Circles: A conversation with Blythe McGarvie of Harvard Business School

24 Apr 2014
News

Detection devices that outsmart the criminally minded

Anthony Harris (MBA 1979) is engineering a more secure world as president and CEO of Campbell Security Equipment Company (CSECO), the world’s leader in portable contraband-detection equipment. Devices made by the Alameda, California-based company enable View Details

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

money service grew to about 400 million subscribers. Lesson 3: Get agents on board Mobile money operators need to treat their sales agents well, providing financial incentives and making them feel strongly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

Network Effects Authors:Hanna W. Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally prefer a platform-limiting choice. We show that platforms that offer a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Alfred B. Dick

& Company evolved into an international company with 1,700 workers, branches in practically every major U.S. city, and sales agents throughout the world. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Madam C. J. Walker

known, not only for its hair care products, but also for its extensive agent system, in which well-trained black women traveled throughout black neighborhoods across the United States, promoting the products. Madame Walker was widely... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

LeRoy A. Petersen

customers and on building high quality products that came with a guarantee of equally high quality service and repair operations. He also expanded the firm internationally, acquiring stakes in other companies and erecting offices abroad, so that by the time he retired... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

Career Coach

Cathy Hutchinson

technology and entertainment/media sectors for the office. Cathy’s work experience includes roles in both the entertainment/media and technology industries and she’s available to work with students and alumni pursuing opportunities in those areas. Work Experience:... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Sports; Telecommunications; Technology

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

climate-controlled vaults. Here's why. Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World Mobile money agents in the developing world face a key inventory management challenge: How much... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

full time engineer. “SEAS and Harvard more broadly has been absolutely critical to HiHome,” Shu said. “Without SEAS and Harvard, HiHome probably wouldn’t exist right now.” Parker and Shu met by chance, but it didn’t take long for them to connect. Shu, A.B. ‘21, was a... View Details

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers... View Details