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  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

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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First Look: Feb. 23

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
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

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
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 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
  • Article

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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  • 17 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • June 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Technical Note

Strategic Complements and Substitutes

By: Eric Van den Steen
The framework of strategic complements and substitutes can help companies anticipate competitors' responses. It is particularly helpful in deciding on price- or capacity-commitments (or pre-emption), but it can provide more general guidance for analyzing the potential... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Strategic Substitutes; Strategic Complements; Puppy Dog Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Game Theory; Strategy; Economics
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  • 2024
  • Dictionary Entry

Jerry R. Green (1946-)

By: Eddie Dekel, John Geanakoplos and Scott Duke Kominers
Jerry Green has a deep and long-standing connection to Harvard University, and in particular with its Economics Department. This paper begins by reviewing his intellectual background, and then turns to exploring how he has influenced scholars through his wide-ranging... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Microeconomics; Theory; History; Game Theory; Decision Choices and Conditions; Education Industry; North America; United States; Cambridge; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • May 2000
  • Article

Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Competing Complements

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff and David B. Yoffie
In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Revenue; Monopoly; Game Theory; Competition
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  • December 2010
  • Article

Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts

This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
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