Game Theory - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

differences between flat-out lying and so-called deception by omission—that is, the willful avoidance of divulging important information, either by changing the subject or by saying as little as possible. The Ultimatum Game To garner a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

PublicationsOvercoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a relational theory of how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2013
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The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little League baseball View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2013
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style game of asking yes-or-no questions about a group of faces pictured, half white and half African-American. The authors suggest that people's discomfort and avoidance of referring to race imposes costs in terms of information... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

04 Oct 2011
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story: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/53104 Toward a Theory of Extended Contact: The Incentives and Opportunities for Bridging across Network Communities Authors:Maxim Sytch, Adam Tatarynowicz, and Ranjay Gulati Publication:Organization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2010
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Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman Abstract We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2022
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Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

has enormous influence on the American social fabric. Knowing who likes you changes the game McFowland and his fellow researchers partnered with a large North American dating platform, dubbed monCherie.com, for a 2021 working paper titled... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

01 Jun 2015
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The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

guessing a higher-quality rating than the actual quality rating." That would explain why information doesn't "unravel" according to game theory predictions, and why companies don't voluntarily... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Apr 2016
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How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

missions. Three, it could have simply rejected the new national security mandate. In reality, it didn’t play out in any of those ways. “Nothing in prior theory led us to expect what we observed—in essence, structural ambidexterity... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Oct 2018
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Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

percent Latino and 0.6 percent Asian). When it comes to NBA coaches, however, the exact opposite is true: there are six black head coaches among 30 teams, or just 20 percent of the league. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

06 Sep 2004
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The Innovator’s Battle Plan

steadily solves unique problems, it builds the ability to do whatever is required to succeed in its context. When the incumbent has retreated into the highest tiers of its market and has to fight because there is no room for further retreat, it is at a competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

1992
Book

Two-Sided Matching: A Study in Game-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis

By: A. E. Roth and M. Sotomayor

Keywords: Game Theory

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The Price of Anarchy of Self-Selection in Tullock Contests

By: Hau Chan, David C. Parkes and Karim R. Lakhani

Crowdsourcing platforms operate by offering their clients the ability to obtain cost-effective solutions for their problems through contests. The top contestants with the best solutions are rewarded, and the submitted solutions are provided to the clients. Within the... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing Contests; Game Theory

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October 2020
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Collusion in Markets with Syndication

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry

Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial... View Details

Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂; Markets; Game Theory

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January 1982
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Bluffing at Poker II

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Game Theory

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Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details

Keywords: Decision Mechanisms; Game Theory; Economics

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15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne