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- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
interact, as if the couple is going to a museum together and chatting about the art work. "We wanted to give people something more specific to talk about, help them find common interests and points of divergence, and give them some content for discussion. Ideally... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
case: http://hbr.org/search/413127-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Exercise 713-804 Competition Simulator Exercise In the "Competition Simulator Exercise," students explore through trial and error... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
mentors and offering girls information about the returns to education), suggesting that negotiation skills themselves drive the effect. Further evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment, which simulates parents’ educational investment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
multiple categories would be better served by offering online product discounts to their most frequent customers. "Our results suggest that that's a safer and in the end more profitable way for the firm to reward loyal shoppers." Ngwe and Chen also used the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
search for low-level, operational choices, which in turn determine performance. Using a simulation model, we show that coupled search processes obscure the performance impact of high-level choices through two mechanisms: (1) a survivor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
simulate a risk management workshop based on the description of an innovative capital project in the energy sector. Students will discuss, assess, and vote on the riskiness of the Smart Meters project and experience the dynamics of a risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
people imagining imminent death. Study 1 revealed that blog posts of near-death patients with cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis were more positive and less negative than the simulated blog posts of nonpatients—and also that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance, demonstrating that the increase in extra life year gains by relaxing certain fairness constraints can be as high as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
sentiment, the researchers conducted six lab experiments in which participants answered questions about a simulated website of a fashion retailer selling T-shirts. The research also included a field study of sales figures at a real online... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
designs. At higher frequency, managers use designs to search for high-performing operational choices. The two searches are coupled: organizational design molds the choice among operational alternatives, and performance feedback from operational choices shapes design.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
Parasitic integration often occurs when only two or three firms exist in a small industry. In many of the negotiation simulations used in value-creation training seminars, students represent firms belonging to a small market. Through... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
and its subsequent market performance. The project revolves around data from the Hollywood Stock Exchange, a popular online market simulation where tens of thousands of people trade movie stocks every day. In another project, with Josh... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in a simulated power-asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
high-quality output. To evaluate this tradeoff, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net increases the number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
of the two. The company can also buy from the spot market. The students use a spreadsheet model with Monte Carlo simulation to analyze the contracting options. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/613065-PDF-ENG J.C. Penney's 'Fair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne