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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
farm system, good scouting, shrewd free agent signings, and human judgment are as critical to a team’s success as fat contract offers. “ ‘Money ball’ is in vogue right now,” he adds, “and being here in Silicon Valley, of course we use... View Details
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Business School and Harvard University, and its and their officers, governing board members, faculty, employees, agents and representatives, from and against any present or future claims, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses for injury... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
as they struggled to understand why the protagonists acted as they did, they might soon be getting the answer firsthand. Consistently, Sahlman tried to focus on what he calls the “fomenting attack”—that is, the agent of change that was... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
agents (e.g. federal and subnational governments, or politicians and bureaucrats) enable better policy decisions? And what are the consequences of globalization for the economic growth and stability of emerging market countries?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
second election or, in rare cases, require the company to negotiate with the union as sole bargaining agent for the employees. Most companies will deny a union’s request to represent its employees on the basis of signed authorization... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
supporting the things that you believe in? If you're in an organization, whether you're a leader of that organization or aspire to be in a leadership position, be that value change agent in your business. You know what's coming—help your... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
recombination. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52166 Firms and Within-Country Migration: Evidence from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—While prior literature on within-country migration is focused on... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to good agents. I apply the model to online advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
more in this Q&A, as well as the motivation behind his working paper "Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud." Martha Lagace: How prevalent is fraud... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
prepared for changes that come your way—especially those you did not see coming. You can do this by broadening your knowledge and skills so you can draw on new information. It is easier to learn about AI agents and its impact on humanity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
means “May”—is told by undercover SB agents and student informers; some of it is misinformation planted by Maj through friends who pretended to cooperate with the SB to avoid arrest or the beatings for which its officers were infamous. In... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
agents, imitation or substitution by third parties, and the withdrawal of IP by agents or third-party owners. For each threat, we consider the impact of modularity in the presence or absence of an effective legal system. The models permit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp07-107 Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity Authors:Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard Abstract There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
(2) Which job offer should he accept? (3) What set of principles and practices should he adopt that will enable him to remain true to his values and sustain his capacity to be a true agent of change, yet not undermine his ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
the Health Connector, which acts not as an insurance company but as a purchasing agent for small employers or individuals.” A final piece of the puzzle, Pozen says, was redirecting the funds in an existing “free-care pool” to subsidize... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912037-PDF-ENG Ponce de Leon: Confidential Instructions for Newman Knight, Elaine Bennett's Agent Ian LarkinHarvard Business School Case 912-038 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel