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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment

By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Education; Marketplace Matching; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • 11 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

    Abstract

    Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details

    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Book

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

    I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been called... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 23 Oct 2019
    • News

    Training Principals to Build Great Schools

    Picture two schools with the same demographics—rural middle schools, for example, that serve equally high-need populations. Both use the same state-mandated curriculum taught by certified teachers. Why is one View Details
    Keywords: University Collaborations
    • Web

    Courses | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Benjamin N. Roth; Associate Professor Natalia Rigol Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) (Fall Q1Q2) Professor Kash Rangan; Associate Professor Benjamin N. Roth; Associate Professor Natalia Rigol Changing the World: Life View Details
    • 01 Dec 2007
    • News

    How Business Schools Lost Their Way

    or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
    • 17 Apr 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

    • 25 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

    The joint degree program with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) proved to be the right choice for Janina. “It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or... View Details
    • 09 Nov 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Robert A. Miller, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

    • Web

    Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    The practice of investment is changing. A rapidly growing share of assets around the globe are making investment choices targeting not just return, but also sustainability, values-alignment or impact. An active community of faculty are... View Details
    • 14 Nov 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Lindsey Cameron, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

    • 16 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

    such as nuances in personality types and their respective implications in business and social environments.    Summer Internship   A big question at business school is what type of summer internship one should pursue. While there are lots... View Details
    • 14 Jun 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

    Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux; Education
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

    interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Web

    K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective course focused on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This multiyear... View Details
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp

    By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
    In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Design
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    • 06 Mar 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

    In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
    • September–October 2013
    • Article

    The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics

    By: Doug J. Chung
    I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the "Flutie Effect." I treat athletic success as a stock of goodwill that decays over... View Details
    Keywords: Choice Modeling; Entertainment Marketing; Heterogeneity; Panel Data; Structural Modeling; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Higher Education; Ethics; Consumer Behavior; Advertising; Sports; Advertising Industry; Education Industry
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