Optimal Mechanism Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

technologies, services, and products available through the ecosystem. In doing this, niche strategies trade off risk with productivity. Strong economies can often be found by niche players by leveraging a single platform—for example, NVIDIA can View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

23 Apr 2008
Op-Ed

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

fundamental change in the regulatory structure is required for managing risk in the financial system. That said, there is still a fundamental gap in the recommended structure because it leaves some financial firms out of "prudential regulation," to use the... View Details

Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Banking; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components. But standards do not evolve... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

02 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain

comes from a sense of optimism and the sense that you can do anything. "At HBS, there is a sense of, 'If not you, then who?' It was so empowering and so exciting. It really made me feel—and has continued to make me feel—like 'I'm in the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; human trafficking; Government; National Security and International Affairs; Government

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

social programs or services, but with limited formal mechanisms for central control and few prescribed interactions between local sites and the center. Tight affiliates are quite similar to business franchises, where the central... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Mar 2018
News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks... View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

identify three major dimensions that characterize change in regulatory systems generally: priorities and incentives, bureaucratic alignment, and transparency and monitoring. Using these dimensions, we first unpack the mechanisms that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources

have the motivation that you are doing something that could be meaningful to the world helps you stick it out through the hard times." A mechanical engineer by trade who had worked in design for Honda... View Details

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

why integrated reporting could be a superior mechanism to perform these functions. We will also argue that integrated reporting can contribute to more effective corporate stewardship. Moreover, we discuss, through a series of case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

was ripe for innovation.” By graduation, the pair and a third cofounder, Dan Hunter, had launched Yoshi on the streets of Palo Alto. Hunter was the mechanic; he retrofitted his old pickup truck with extra fuel tanks. Alexander was the engineer; he View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

chain management and advanced planning and scheduling software embed more advanced algorithms than their predecessors and offer the possibility of optimizing decisions across an entire supply chain, as opposed to within single firms. 52... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

faculty chair of the IWA Project and author of the 2022 book Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. “It’s very hard to have accountability about those claims, both externally and internally, without a valuation mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808026 'Doer's Profile' Nelson Mandela (1918- ) Harvard Business School Case 808-040 Profile of Nelson Mandela designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Student-Profile

Anastassia Fedyk

am trying to better understand how psychological biases affect decision-making in organizations and financial markets. I have been long interested in optimal incentive design for employees subject to... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

diagnostics, consumer, and devices, collectively raising more than $150 million in funding. To further catalyze these new science-based businesses, the program provides fellows professional development in areas such as startup strategy, View Details

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

gift giving passed "title" to the gift on to receivers-such that receivers were free to decide what to do with the gift; in contrast, receivers believed that givers retained some "say" in how their gifts were used. Finally, an intervention View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

semester in undergrad of organic chemistry, I realized I didn’t love medicine enough to commit to the long training. What I did love was my introduction to mechanical engineering. I eventually pivoted to View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

ways in which technology can be used proactively to serve alumni. Possible projects include developing a strategy for "push" technology, designing a format for communicating regularly with graduates about faculty research and course... View Details

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