Duke - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

a folding chair across the court to protest a referee's call. Mike Krzyzewski, also known as Coach K, leads the men's basketball program at Duke University. Instead of fear, Krzyzewski relies heavily on positive reinforcement, open and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

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Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

they’re more likely to be investing in capital. So, it would increase returns, but those returns are going to the capital owners.” “Compensation and income inequality are very relevant to managers” In the paper Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality, Rouen and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

21 Apr 2021
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The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

message has been received? How will you know if you are getting all the relevant information you need? What has and has not worked in your communication strategies thus far? Draw a literal picture. Everyone is overwhelmed with text. Visual aids can be extraordinarily... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

16 Oct 2017
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The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

investment of a founder’s time" Koning’s working paper, released in May, is titled Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem. The coauthors were Aaron Chatterji and Sharique Hasan, both of Duke... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

April 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Raksul

By: Scott Duke Kominers, Masahiro Kotosaka, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

Raksul, 2018 Forbes Japan "Startup of the Year," ran an e-commerce platform drawing upon thousands of individual suppliers. Launched as a business-to-business printing services marketplace, Raksul had recently expanded to operate both a logistics/delivery marketplace... View Details

Keywords: Marketplace Design; B2B; Platform Strategy; Printing; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Logistics; Advertising; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; E-commerce; Web Services Industry; Japan

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05 Jun 2020
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How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

Impact-Weighted Accounts Projects at HBS; Fanele Mashwama, a research associate at HBS and Harvard University; and Heather McPherson, MBA candidate at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Sean Silverthorne: What is an anchor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

2018, Averaging Probability Forecasts: Back to the Future. Grushka-Cockayne, on loan from University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, joined with Darden colleague Casey. Lichtendahl; Bob Winkler of Duke University’s Fuqua School... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. He partnered on the research with HBS doctoral student Kala Viswanathan and Duke University professor Matthew Johnson. Widespread adoption, but does the standard work? Some 2.8... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

March 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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LooksRare: The Decentralized, Tokenized, NFT Marketplace

By: Scott Duke Kominers, Shai Bernstein and George Gonzalez

LooksRare launched a decentralized and anonymous organization to compete against NFT marketplace leader OpenSea. By launching its own cryptocurrency, LooksRare attempted to lure users with a digital rewards program. The nature of the organization and its business... View Details

Keywords: NFTs; Alternative Assets; Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Customer Relationship Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business Model; Marketing

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2018
Working Paper

Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers

We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in... View Details

Keywords: Patent Trolls; NPEs; PAEs; Innovation; Patents; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Finance

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30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

Time. Scott Duke Kominers: Pop music and poetry I have the habit of reading three books at a time: a biography, some other non-fiction, and a work of fiction. For biographies, I’ve been on a music kick: I recently finished Fred Schruers’s... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

February 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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Online Marketing at Big Skinny

By: Benjamin Edelman and Scott Duke Kominers

Describes a wallet maker's application of seven Internet marketing technologies: display ads, algorithmic search, sponsored search, social media, interactive content, online distributors, and A/B testing. Provides concise introductions to the key features of each... View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry

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18 Nov 2013
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Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

functioning of the team. Together with Leigh Plunkett Tost of the University of Michigan and Richard P. Larrick of Duke University, Gino explores this question in When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Mar 2018
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Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

Despite the promise that electronic health records would cut billing costs, savings have yet to materialize, according to a major new study by researchers at Harvard Business School and Duke University. “The theory was that part of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

client, the Enron Corporation. “They needed the collapse of Enron,” Bazerman says. “There’s an issue of managerial outlets not being interested in good ideas until they have become obvious.” Harvard Business School’s Michael I. Norton and View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. The desire for certainty about the future price of carbon is not new, and it's not unique to small or green-leaning businesses. Duke Energy argues that renewable and clean... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

December 2024
Article

Respect for Improvements and Comparative Statics in Matching Markets

By: Scott Duke Kominers

One of the oldest results in the theory of two-sided matching is the entry comparative static, which shows that under the Gale–Shapley deferred acceptance algorithm, adding a new agent to one side of the market makes all the agents on the other side weakly... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods; Market Design

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