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09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

PublicationsMediators in Position Auctions Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, and Moshe Tennenholtz Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract A mediator is a reliable entity, which can play on behalf of agents in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Generative AI for Business Leaders - Course Catalog

a production scale Gen AI application using a no code platform. The HBS digital transformation (DTX) team will assist in the delivery fot he project. Learn about the basic foundations of the technology as well as the latest developments such as View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Turning Point: Dream Weaver

priority to help as many people as I could while working at MGM. Creative Artists Agency was still very new, and their agents had restricted expense accounts, so I always made sure to invite my friends at CAA to screenings so they could... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

their ascent against the odds: serendipity, competence, social ties, maneuvers, and aggressive action. We demonstrate the role that social class origins play in shaping the career narratives of these high achieving women. Women from lower social class backgrounds... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2017
News

How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

Initiative encourages future, current, and former students alike to engage in a meaningful, research-based conversation about diversity and inclusion and to act as change agents in their own organizations and lives. View Details

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FERPA Information | HBS Online

academic, research, staff support or other duties. "Harvard officials" include: faculty; administrators; clerical employees; professional employees; other employees and agents of the University; independent contractors, consultants,... View Details

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

intentions of the customer." Retailers that deploy effective loyalty schemes do just that. "I think Nordstrom is a great example of a retailer that's doing it well," says Alvarez. "Nordstrom looks at the rewards program from the perspective of how... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

around the topic of extortion. "The Shakedown" looks at the conflicts faced by the owner of a software development center in Kiev. Pavlo Zhuk, the U.S.-based co-owner, is notified by his partner that their Kiev office has been visited by Ukraine Tax Authority... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

March 2006; and "Aggregation, Precision, and Contracting with a Long-Horizon Agent in a Multi-Task Setting," a HBS Working Paper from April 2006. Ann Cullen: How did you get interested in this topic? Romana Autrey: Career... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Dec 2019
News

The Race Against Resistance

ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system should spend dollars on a... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

advisors. Educational Objectives The focus of this course is the leader as a strategist, architect, decision maker, and change agent in a turnaround or transformation environment. This course will present situations where you can analyze... View Details

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I... View Details

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

fulfilled? A: Many managers will express opinions about whether it is possible to hire talent or not, just as many football fans can argue whether signing expensive free agents is likely to improve their teams' prospects. What our work... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

31 Oct 2019
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Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

Bend’s rebranding over its 100-year history, and its Spirit of the Silver Lining Award, which celebrates independent insurance agents for outstanding service to nonprofit organizations in their communities, and includes grant money to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

leverage over a country's government. In the case of the Panama Canal, for example, the United States was concerned enough about maintaining political stability in the country during the construction of the canal to install a fiscal agent... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

to helping the combined companies compete with rivals such as Disney and Cap Cities/ABC. To get the deal done, however, Michael Ovitz, talent agent turned unorthodox corporate matchmaker, kept the parties mostly apart during the process,... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

game-theoretical agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and find robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrate in-group cooperation and out-group defection, even... View Details