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      • 1 Aug 1990
      • Conference Presentation

      Mechanisms of Creativity

      By: Teresa M. Amabile
      Keywords: Creativity
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      Amabile, Teresa M. "Mechanisms of Creativity." Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, August 01, 1990.
      • March 1990 (Revised October 1999)
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      Turner Construction Company: Project Management Control Systems

      By: Robert L. Simons and Hilary Weston
      After providing a brief overview of Turner Construction Co.'s structure and project work, the case gives a detailed description of its project management control system, the IOR system. In addition to explaining the mechanics of the IOR system, the case identifies the... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Cost Management; Performance Evaluation; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Planning; Management Systems; Management Teams; Construction Industry
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      Simons, Robert L., and Hilary Weston. "Turner Construction Company: Project Management Control Systems." Harvard Business School Case 190-128, March 1990. (Revised October 1999.)
      • July 1989
      • Article

      Immunizing Children Against the Negative Effects of Reward

      By: B. A. Hennessey, T. M. Amabile and M. Martinage
      Two studies were conducted to examine the effect of intrinsic motivation training on children's subsequent motivational orientation and creativity in an expected reward situation. Past research has demonstrated the overjustification effect: Children who work on an... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Training; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Teaching
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      Hennessey, B. A., T. M. Amabile, and M. Martinage. "Immunizing Children Against the Negative Effects of Reward." Contemporary Educational Psychology 14, no. 3 (July 1989): 212–227.
      • March 1989 (Revised April 1998)
      • Case

      Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged)

      By: Richard S. Ruback
      Gives students the opportunity to explore how a company uses the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to compute the cost of capital for each of its divisions. The use of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) formula and the mechanics of applying it are stressed. View Details
      Keywords: Cost of Capital; Mathematical Methods
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      Ruback, Richard S. "Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 289-047, March 1989. (Revised April 1998.)
      • January 1987
      • Article

      Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      When a decision rule is implemented using a Bayesian incentive compatible mechanism in which the messages are publicly observable, the players' information is augmented by their observation of each others' strategies. In this paper we study the set of Bayesian... View Details
      Keywords: Incentives; Commitment; Mechanism Design; Decision Making; Information
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      Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Posterior Implementability in a Two-person Decision Problem." Econometrica 55, no. 1 (January 1987): 69–94.
      • September 1986 (Revised July 2001)
      • Case

      Eastern Electric Apparatus Repair Company (A)

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Harry Gruner
      As principals engaged in structuring leveraged buyouts for a well-capitalized risk arbitrage firm, Bob Meehan and George Schwartz are preparing to bid for the business and assets of a Westinghouse subsidiary. The case focuses on the value of the opportunity, methods of... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Bids and Bidding; Opportunities; Business Subsidiaries; Strategy; Valuation; Equity; Electronics Industry
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Harry Gruner. "Eastern Electric Apparatus Repair Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 287-023, September 1986. (Revised July 2001.)
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      Partially Verifiable Information and Mechanism Design

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      In a principal-agent model with adverse selection, we study the implementation of social choice functions when the agent's message space is a correspondence which depends on this true characteristic. We characterize such correspondence for which the Revelation... View Details
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      Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Partially Verifiable Information and Mechanism Design." Review of Economic Studies 53, no. 3 (July 1986): 447–456.
      • January 1986
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      Social Influences on Creativity: The Effects of Contracted-For Reward

      By: T. M. Amabile, B. A. Hennessey and B. S. Grossman
      Three studies, with 195 5–11 yr olds and 60 female undergraduates, tested the hypothesis that explicitly contracting to do an activity in order to receive a reward would have negative effects on creativity, but receiving no reward or only a noncontracted-for reward... View Details
      Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment
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      Amabile, T. M., B. A. Hennessey, and B. S. Grossman. "Social Influences on Creativity: The Effects of Contracted-For Reward." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 50, no. 1 (January 1986): 14–23.
      • November 1985 (Revised November 1987)
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      R&R

      By: Howard H. Stevenson
      Outlines alternative mechanisms for getting into business. Shows the means by which an experienced entrepreneur can gain control over the necessary resources in order to lower the fixed costs of business entry. Provides a mechanism for discussing the role of... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Entrepreneurship
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      Stevenson, Howard H. "R&R." Harvard Business School Case 386-019, November 1985. (Revised November 1987.)
      • April 1985 (Revised September 1986)
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      CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (B)

      By: William A. Sahlman
      Contains a description of some issues confronting management of CML Group as the company progresses toward making an initial public offering. Among the issues and topics addressed in the case are: considerations in choosing an underwriting team, the initial public... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Initial Public Offering; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Planning; Cost vs Benefits; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry
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      Sahlman, William A. "CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (B)." Harvard Business School Case 285-092, April 1985. (Revised September 1986.)
      • March 1985 (Revised November 1985)
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      Wilmington Tap and Die

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The general manager of a division manufacturing taps and dies must decide whether to continue a major capital investment program. The program was designed to replace aging mechanical machines with modern, electronically controlled equipment. A post-audit, after an... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Accounting Audits; Cost Management; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Production; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Manufacturing Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Wilmington Tap and Die." Harvard Business School Case 185-124, March 1985. (Revised November 1985.)
      • July 1983
      • Exercise

      Exercises in the Mechanics of Futures Contracts: Wheat Futures

      By: Ray A. Goldberg
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      Goldberg, Ray A. "Exercises in the Mechanics of Futures Contracts: Wheat Futures." Harvard Business School Exercise 584-001, July 1983.
      • 1982
      • Chapter

      Strategies and Mechanisms for Urban and Rural Subsidization: The Case of CONASUPO

      By: James E. Austin
      Keywords: Strategy; Policy; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Sovereign Finance; Mexico
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      Austin, James E. "Strategies and Mechanisms for Urban and Rural Subsidization: The Case of CONASUPO." In Nutrition Policy Implementation, edited by N. Scrimshaw and M. Wallerstein. Plenum Press, 1982.
      • 1978
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      An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      It is only recently that economic theorists have faced the fact that the proposed allocation mechanisms in economies with public goods might have bad incentive properties. In this paper we introduce a new planning procedure such that truthful revelation of the marginal... View Details
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      Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 80, no. 1 (1978): 20–33.
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      Satisfactory Mechanisms for Environments with Consumption Lower Bounds

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
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      Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Satisfactory Mechanisms for Environments with Consumption Lower Bounds." Journal of Economic Theory 19, no. 2 (December 1978): 359–375.
      • Fall 1978
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      Incentive Mechanisms for Priority Queuing Problems

      By: Robert J. Dolan
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      Dolan, Robert J. "Incentive Mechanisms for Priority Queuing Problems." Bell Journal of Economics (Fall 1978): 421–436.
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      Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods

      By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details
      Keywords: Decision Mechanisms; Game Theory; Economics
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      Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods." Econometrica 45, no. 2 (March 1977): 427–438.
      • November 1976
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      Partial Equilibrium Approach to the Free-Rider Problem

      By: Jerry R. Green, Elon Kohlberg and Jean-Jacques Laffont
      Groves and others have shown that truthful answers concerning preferences for public goods can be elicited as dominant strategies if appropriate tax-subsidies rules are applied. This paper studies the statistical properties of the total revenues generated by one of the... View Details
      Keywords: Problems and Challenges
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      Green, Jerry R., Elon Kohlberg, and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Partial Equilibrium Approach to the Free-Rider Problem." Journal of Public Economics 6, no. 4 (November 1976): 375–394.
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      The Nature of Stochastic Equilibria

      By: Jerry R. Green and Mukul Majumdar
      This paper formulates the notion of stochastic equilibria as invariant probability distributions consistent with the behavior patterns of individuals and the disequilibrium adjustment mechanism of the economy. Conditions for existence, uniqueness, and stability of such... View Details
      Keywords: Stochastic Equilibria; Econometric Models
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      Green, Jerry R., and Mukul Majumdar. "The Nature of Stochastic Equilibria." Econometrica 43, no. 4 (July 1975): 647–660.
      • August 1968
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      Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities

      By: R. M. Kanter
      Keywords: Organizations; Society
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      Kanter, R. M. "Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities." American Sociological Review 35 (August 1968): 499–517. (Sociology: Students and Society, by J. Rabow. Los Angeles: Goodyear, 1972; Currents of Unrest: An Introduction to Collective Behavior, by O.E. Klapp. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall (Tables); Social Psychology for Sociologists, by D. Field. London: Nelson, 1974; The Sociology of Religion, by S. Bruce. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1994.)
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