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- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
verify their gut with a more quantitative analysis. What type of investor are you? Neither approach is necessarily better, says Huang. Rather, both are investors’ ways of managing and rationalizing risk. Checklist investors deal with... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract— We develop a model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
increase in revenue for established schools whereas invitations to prestigious postseason bowl games play a big part for less-established schools. Furthermore, we find that student population and education quality dissipate the effect of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
order preservation, then all (pure strategy) Nash equilibria induce equal division. Next, we consider division rules satisfying efficiency, equal treatment of equals, and claims monotonicity. For claim games with at most three agents,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why buy something when you can get... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
organization. And finally they embrace inconsistency, allowing themselves the latitude to pursue multiple and often conflicting agendas. Read this article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-ambidextrous-ceo/ar/1 Working PapersBetter-reply Dynamics in Deferred Acceptance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: collusion may become easier as market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
work and how they perform. Yet most formal analytical models of operations assume that the people who participate in operating systems are fully rational or at least can be induced to behave rationally. Many other disciplines, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
Bazerman Abstract The optimal moment to address the question of how to improve human decision making has arrived. In recent research, judgment and decision-making scholars have moved beyond the concept of bounded rationality to recognize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
multiple assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single, fixed assortment—the retailer effectively conceals a portion of its full product catalog from consumers, injecting uncertainty into the consumer's relative product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
"claim" value individually and cooperative ones to "create" value jointly, as well as efforts to change perceptions of the game itself. Since advice to one side does not necessarily presume the full game-theoretic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
potential customer population when pricing at a level that, under the condition, can be shown to be an upper bound for a rational price choice for the firm irrespective of the prices chosen by its competitors. We show that under a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
single scenario among many that were likely—then I could discount the success scenario back to the present, and make a rational decision.’ So it’s really quite a different thought process, and it suggests answers to a whole bunch of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne