Filter Results:
(163)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (225)
- Faculty Publications (39)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (225)
- Faculty Publications (39)
Sort by
- July 28, 2022
- Article
DAO Governance Attacks, and How to Avoid Them
By: Pranav Garimidi, Scott Duke Kominers and Tim Roughgarden
Many web3 projects embrace permissionless voting using a fungible and tradable native token. Permissionless voting can offer many benefits, from lowering barriers to entry to increasing competition. Token holders can use their tokens to vote on a range of issues—from... View Details
Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Governance; Voting; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Organizational Structure; Digital Platforms
Garimidi, Pranav, Scott Duke Kominers, and Tim Roughgarden. "DAO Governance Attacks, and How to Avoid Them." a16zcrypto.com (July 28, 2022).
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
attracts female applicants Next, the research team recruited new participants on the research platform Prolific to participate in a follow-up experiment, again probing their willingness to apply for an “advanced opportunity.” Participants... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
protect firm value, helping their firm better withstand negative business shocks. We formally explore two parallel mechanisms for such protection: one of building moral capital (CSR Contributions) and another of improving investor... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
Overview
I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Overview
I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44724 Strategic Search Diversion, Product Affiliation and Platform Competition By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien Abstract—Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
of both mechanisms successfully generates a sizable secular increase. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Evidence from the Massachusetts Natural Experiment By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to understand the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
qualitatively confirm the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton. [Duranton, G., 2007. "Urban Evolutions: The Fast, the Slow, and the Still." American Economic Review 97, 197.221]. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
School, defines these multi-sided markets as platforms that serve two or more distinct groups of customers who value each other's participation. Examples: EBay provides markets for both buyers and sellers, dating club clients are both men... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
business practices, allowed businesses to connect with students at the individual level. At the same time, the creation of platforms for business-education learning brought system-level improvements. In particular, MCBRE's board of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
others. But it got to decide which components to "expose," and which to keep hidden, providing a mechanism through which its core intellectual property could be protected. As the company expanded, Microsoft formalized this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272712001028?v=s5 From Mind Perception to Mental Connection: Synchrony as a Mechanism for Social Understanding Authors:Thalia Wheatley, Olivia Kang, Carolyn Parkinson, and Christine E.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. 3) What investors look for. Each source has a different funding process and set of criteria that you need to understand before seeking funding from that source. 4) The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
Summing Up Is Wealth Distribution a Problem Cause or Symptom? The passion and thought that went into this month's questions about wealth redistribution suggest that the topic is of more than passing interest. Some cautioned against hasty changes. Many used the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace