Publications

Educators

2010
Working Paper

Who Selected Adjustable-Rate Mortgages? Evidence from the 1989-2007 Surveys of Consumer Finances

We find evidence that households selecting adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) during the recent decade were disproportionately those who were less suspicious or who may have had difficulty understanding complicated ARM features that became commonplace prior to the... View Details

Keywords: Household; Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Personal Finance

December 2014
Article

Selecting the Best? Spillover and Shadows in Elimination Tournaments

By: Jennifer Brown and Dylan B. Minor

We consider how past, current, and future competition within an elimination tournament affect the probability that the stronger player wins. We present a two-stage model that yields the following main results: (1) a shadow effect—the stronger the expected future... View Details

Keywords: Elimination Tournament; Dynamic Contest; Contest Design; Effort Choice; Betting Markets; Competitive Advantage; Game Theory

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Surgical Procedures: by selected patient characteristics and procedure categories

the topic. HCUP Statistical Briefs: Procedures and Treatments Overview covers statistics about a variety of procedures performed in US hospitals. Additional resources: Procedures by selected patient characteristics also from the... View Details

Article

Productivity and Selection of Human Capital with Machine Learning

By: Aaron Chalfin, Oren Danieli, Andrew Hillis, Zubin Jelveh, Michael Luca, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Selection and Staffing; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Policy

October 7, 2014
Blog Post

How to Select Sales Managers Who Can Actually Manage.

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Sales

January 2005
Supplement

Selected Exhibits from Lamoiyan Corporation of the Philippines (CW)

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Philippines

February 1987 (Revised February 1991)
Case

American Arbitration Association and the FMCS: On Selecting Arbitrators

February 1974
Journal Article

Natural Selection of Life History Attibutes: An Analytical Approach

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Howard M. Taylor, Robert Gourley and Charles Lawrence

06 May 2024
News

Indigenous Professionals Selected for Prestigious Harvard Business School Program

May 1992 (Revised July 1995)
Teaching Note

CFS Site Selection at Shell Canada Ltd., Teaching Note

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

2014
Article

Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection

By: Boris Groysberg and Eric Lin

We use proprietary data capturing compensation levels of executives placed by a global search firm to investigate how executives evaluate rewards and risks of human capital investment choices. Our findings suggest that more isolated industries with lower opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career

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September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
Case

Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg

By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia

The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Auctions; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Strategy; Education Industry; Sports Industry; United States

Educators

2010
Working Paper

Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions

By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz