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  • January 2014
  • Article

Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization

By: Dan Iancu and Nikolaos Trichakis
This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto efficiency in the context of the popular robust optimization (RO) methodology for linear optimization problems. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the... View Details
Keywords: Robust Optimization; Pareto Optimality; Resource Allocation; Game Theory
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  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • November 2001
  • Supplement

An Interview with Heidi Roizen

By: Kathleen L. McGinn
Heidi Roizen being interviewed by MBA students, talks about the design to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of network development and maintenance. She focuses on the concept of an egocentric and personal network. View Details
Keywords: Design; Retention; Networks; Theory
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  • June 2008
  • Article

Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Overconfidence by Bayesian Rational Agents

By: Eric Van den Steen
This paper derives two mechanisms through which Bayesian-rational individuals with differing priors will tend to be relatively overconfident about their estimates and predictions, in the sense of overestimating the precision of these estimates. The intuition behind one... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics; Game Theory; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • February 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

RadioShack

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Youngme E. Moon and Marie Bell
Outlines the transformation of RadioShack stores from a parts and accessories business to a provider of high bandwidth Internet access. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Internet
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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

book deals with two of the biggest problems in business: Why do sane, smart leaders often refuse to accept the facts that threaten their companies? And how do they find the courage to resist denial when facing new trends, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity are Linked

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg
  • 19 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Policy; Taxation; Theory; United States
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  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

individual. This article offers a critical review of this rich yet disparate literature and guides research toward a multilevel theory of imprinting. We start with a definition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2004 (Revised January 2005)
  • Background Note

Principals, Agents, and Partners

By: Arthur I Segel, Armen Panossian and Jeff Mandelbaum
The establishment of the principal-agent relationship, the duties owed by the agent to the principal, and the principal's liability for illegal actions or representations made by the agent are all examined. Also covers the creation of partnerships and the duties of... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Agency Theory; Legal Liability
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  • 02 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 09 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

performance? What are principled choices its leaders must make if they are serious about building such a firm? What are the means for changing an average company into a HCHP company? What are the key design features View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1996 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

Vandelay Industries, Inc.

An ICS consultant considers issues at the start of a full-scale implementation of SAP software for a large client. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) software will integrate previously fragmented business processes and so must be supported by the entire client... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Software; Business Processes; Information Technology Industry
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  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA7), forthcoming Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel development. However, we lack a formal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

reflected on the firm's past phase of growth before meeting with the company's Chairman and founder to discuss how to further scale what they called the Mother Standard of Care and, in the process, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne