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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
young, and I started asking questions about his background and what he did, and he started asking me about how does he run a better operation, with this giant thing, because he had no experience. And we ended up talking for two and a half hours. I told him how to hire... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
result of equilibrium product differentiation when some facts are nonverifiable. We use the model to address several questions, including the impact of competition on bias, the incentives to report unpopular news, and the impact of owner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded based on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
one-year assignment following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The office was underfunded and had perverse incentives embedded throughout the system. Sullivan's new vision to rectify the challenges was not readily accepted by judges and lawyers... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility—the platform owner with smaller standalone... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Mawilmada helped secure a $1.25 billion investment for the line from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with two other 25-kilometer corridors prepped for public-private partnership funding. Buses are another piece of the puzzle, with the current View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose option–laden compensation... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are likely to reduce adverse selection in the choice of CLO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
has existed for decades claims to be impartial, there are different incentives and political systems that can come into play. Again, that’s not to say there isn’t a lot of great journalism out there; but at... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
says. "But you end up with this strange incentive to book through OpenTable, not because you love OpenTable, not because you needed a reservation, but because you want the dollar. It looks like free money, a rebate on a purchase that you... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10
are also consistent with SOX and regulatory actions reducing the incentives to sell ahead of privately known negative news. Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels Author:Anita Elberse Publication:Journal of Marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
diagnostic tests for screening. Screening games can apply to the cases where by-products, partner fidelity feedback, or host sanctions do not apply, therefore explaining the evolution of mutualism in systems where it is impossible for... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
show that the decline in auctions was not driven by changes in the type of sellers and items. Instead, seller incentives changed. We estimate the demand facing individual sellers at different points in time and document falling sale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-089.pdf Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
likely to expose their bank to higher risk levels when regulation protects the bank against default. Managerial equity incentives may, therefore, serve as a risk-reduction instrument. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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effectiveness Have the skills to build and manage effective incentive systems, whether based on monetary compensation or based on other forms of rewards, that tap into people's underlying motivations and promote value-creating behavior... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
large exchange pool (although the worst-case cost is very high), while the cost of failing to guarantee individually rational allocations could be large, in terms of lost transplants. We also identify an incentive compatible mechanism.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne