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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Reinhardt, and Robert N. Stavins. "Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33564, March 2025. Limited Accountability and Awareness of Corporate Emissions Target Outcomes... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Shaky Business: How Handshakes Win Negotiations

see whether handshaking might still help with negotiating deals. “ If your instinct is not to shake, it would be wise to think of sending another signal of cooperation” They found that shaking hands is a powerful gesture that creates a cooperative spirit and leads to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

organization is producing the two outcomes described above. If your organization is doing the above two activities in an informal, casual way, don't change. But if your organization does not have these outcomes—a clear sense of direction,... View Details
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Current Research

Professor Chung models the effect of incentive compensation to study its impact on the sales force. Using data from a Fortune 500 company, he has developed a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus-based compensation plan and examined how various... View Details

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The Power of Paradox: Some Recent Developments in Interactive Epistemology

This survey describes a central paradox of game theory, viz. the Paradox of Backward Induction (BI). The paradox is that the BI outcome is often said to follow from basic game-theoretic principles--specifically, from the assumption that the players are rational. Yet,... View Details
  • 2023
  • Article

Balancing Risk and Reward: An Automated Phased Release Strategy

By: Yufan Li, Jialiang Mao and Iavor Bojinov
Phased releases are a common strategy in the technology industry for gradually releasing new products or updates through a sequence of A/B tests in which the number of treated units gradually grows until full deployment or deprecation. Performing phased releases in a... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Mathematical Methods; Product Development
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  • March 2022
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Sensitivity Analysis of Agent-based Models: A New Protocol

By: Emanuele Borgonovo, Marco Pangallo, Jan Rivkin, Leonardo Rizzo and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used in the management sciences. Though useful, ABMs are often critiqued: it is hard to discern why they produce the results they do and whether other assumptions would yield similar results. To help researchers address such... View Details
Keywords: Agent-based Modeling; Sensitivity Analysis; Design Of Experiments; Total Order Sensitivity Indices; Organizations; Behavior; Decision Making; Mathematical Methods
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  • November 8, 2018
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Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care

By: Thomas W. Feeley and Namita Seth Mohta
In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already happening. Respondents report that a quarter of... View Details
Keywords: Payment Methods; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Transformation
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Changes in Negative Reciprocity as a Function of Age

By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Shelly Fiks
Standard economic models assume people exclusively pursue material self-interests in social interactions. However, people exhibit social preferences; that is, they base their choices partly on the outcomes others obtained in a social interaction. People care about... View Details
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  • 2012
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Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Spurred by the anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective compliance.... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Business and Government Relations
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  • November 2012
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Does Management Really Work?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In... View Details
Keywords: Best Practices; Consulting Firms; Corporations; Cost Control; Employee Training; Executive Ability (Management); Executives—training Of; Hospitals—administration; Industrial Management—research; Productivity Incentives; School Management Teams; Work Environment; Management; Research
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    Coming Through When It Matters Most

    All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details

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    Executive Education - Global

    big-picture approaches to run their organizations." Hala Matar Choufany President HVS Middle East and Africa, Dubai "I am now able to consider outcomes through a clearly articulated and structured process." Darshan Chandaria Director and... View Details
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    and Antoinette Schoar This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and... View Details
    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

    consequences disproportionately felt by one group of users. McFowland urges developers to be mindful when rolling out features with interpersonal ramifications. “Platforms have tremendous power when to change behavior and to help lead to better View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 31 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

    up saving the life of the potential victim The trigger for achieving the desired outcome: instilling the sense of fear in the subordinate. Accordingly, can an argument be made that at times and under certain circumstances fear might be the best way to achieve a desired... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 12 Nov 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

    Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun
    • 26 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior

    Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Erin L. Krupka & Roberto A. Weber
    • 11 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge

    Keywords: by Bo Becker, Daniel B. Bergstresser & Guhan Subramanian; Financial Services
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

      Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace