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- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and asked the political scientist Elinor Olstrom to provide some... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Mr. Smith do?" Today, as management has become more sophisticated, with a wider array of technical theories and tools, detailed analytical questions are the norm. Students still come to class with a recommended View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 2010
- Working Paper
Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others
By: Rafael Di Tella and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
In this paper we present the results from a "corruption game" (a dictator game modified so that the second player can accept a side payment that reduces the overall size of the pie). Dictators (silently) treated to have the possibility of taking a larger proportion of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Game Theory; Personal Characteristics
Di Tella, Rafael, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs about Others." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16645, December 2010.
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
physics to philosophy to math. But Wilson did meet Howard Raiffa, a renowned scholar in the field of game theory and decision analysis, and followed him to HBS. There, Wilson completed the obligatory MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
or coauthored 15 books as well as the now-classic 1977 Harvard Business Review article "Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" His latest book, Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations, explores motivation, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
organizations as well as customer pressure from individual investors are critical in mitigating free-rider problems among asset managers and sustaining engagement practices. Finally, I explore the limits and anticompetitive concerns to the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- June 1999
- Article
Projections onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA
By: F. Frei and P. Harker
Frei, F., and P. Harker. "Projections onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA." Journal of Productivity Analysis 11, no. 3 (June 1999): 275–300.
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
The most noteworthy message of the Enron trial is that corporate executives can be convicted in a court of law for a pattern of deception that may or may not be illegal. Left unaddressed in the trial were many financial transactions and accounting View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
The valuation of forecasted cash flows can be an inaccurate process, especially when the forecasts are created by optimists who neglect to consider worst-case scenarios. In this working paper, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance Richard Ruback View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract Abstract We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuations on low-price firms, managers will maintain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
about baseball and race, he's explored questions such as how much money motivates ministers, and how much financial journalists affect the stock market. "I am interested in what motivates people," he says, "and what causes them to make the View Details
- December 2010
- Article
Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts
This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
Cabrales, Antonio, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, and Giovanni Ponti. "Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts." American Economic Review 100, no. 5 (December 2010): 2261–2278.