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- 2008
- Working Paper
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level 2, candidates negotiate with domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review... View Details
Bowles, Hannah Riley, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-095, May 2008.
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
Literally millions of people have found dates through online match-making services, so who says the Internet is isolating? The problem for many users, however, is that initial matches are often imperfect—even frustrating—because the... View Details
- 20 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cooperative Strategic Games
By: Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman
We examine a solution concept, called the “value," for n-person strategic games. In applications, the value provides an a-priori assessment of the monetary worth of a player's position in a strategic game, comprising not only the player's contribution to the total... View Details
Keywords: Game Theory
Kohlberg, Elon, and Abraham Neyman. "Cooperative Strategic Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-075, February 2017.
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
responsibility than ever before. Capitalism has played a pivotal part in creating societal problems ranging from climate change to curtailment of civil liberties. The next generation View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
Illustration by Daniel Bejar The Chinese economy seems to have finally hit the brakes. Thanks to stalling real estate and export markets, this year China reported first and second quarter growth rates of 7 percent—its lowest numbers in... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
maybe this is just a checkbox. But honestly, I think doing purpose is hard work. It’s not some kind of change management exercise. You can’t just launch a purpose and then cascade it out into the... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
business practices with political savvy and a pioneering spirit, J.R.D Tata is remembered as one of India's most important and influential business leaders. Tata is an example of a 20th century business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Article
Analyzing Scrip Systems
By: Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi and Peng Sun
Scrip systems provide a nonmonetary trade economy for exchange of resources. We model a scrip system as a stochastic game and study system design issues on selection rules to match potential trade partners over time. We show the optimality of one particular rule in... View Details
Keywords: ＂Repeated Games＂; Stochastic Trust Game; Dynamic Program; P2P Lending; Scrip Systems; Artificial Currency; Non-monetary Trade Economies; Marketplace Matching; Currency; Operations; Game Theory
Johnson, Kris, David Simchi-Levi, and Peng Sun. "Analyzing Scrip Systems." Operations Research 62, no. 3 (May–June 2014): 524–534.
- 27 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
- 28 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Serving Altruism? When Unethical Actions That Benefit Others Do Not Trigger Guilt
- 15 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Legislating Stock Prices
- 2017
- Working Paper
Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any... View Details
Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo. "Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-055, January 2018.
- 24 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges
- October 1990 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
John Smithers at Sigtek
Describes an ill-fated effort to institute a total quality program. Using the vantage point of one of the managers selected to be a quality instructor, the case traces the rise and fall of the quality effort during its very brief existence over the course of six... View Details
Jick, Todd D. "John Smithers at Sigtek." Harvard Business School Case 491-035, October 1990. (Revised April 1998.)
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
organizational field, we will limit our attention to theories, models, and studies of cognition that have their root in the psychology of how people make decisions. The areas View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
theories of how social activists inspire changes in organizational norms, beliefs, and practices, we hypothesize that shareholder actions and regulatory threats are likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace