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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division

By: John W. Pratt
Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their entitlements if they receive nothing else. The "price" procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash... View Details
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Valuation; Price; Cost
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How Many Balance Functions Does It Take To Determine A Utility Function?

By: John W. Pratt
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

By: John W. Pratt
Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; Price
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Yardsticks of Management , 1952 John G. Bowes; William K. Bowes, Jr.; Charles W. Gardiner; Robert M. Halperin; Robert G. Hooker, Jr.; Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.; Bradford K. Kroha; Michael A. Loeb; William... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Yardsticks of Management , 1952 John G. Bowes; William K. Bowes, Jr.; Charles W. Gardiner; Robert M. Halperin; Robert G. Hooker, Jr.; Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.; Bradford K. Kroha; Michael A. Loeb; William... View Details
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Additional Harvard Funding | MBA

financial aid. George Leadership Fellowship Open to HBS students in the third year of the joint degree program with Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), the fellowship reflects the foundation's commitment to enhancing public service by investing in character formation and... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

underscored the importance of employee engagement, contributing to the community, and creating sustainable environment strategies. Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela In this video report, Senior Lecturer John Macomber visits the... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2009
  • News

Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The Johns Hopkins University Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., English,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Ideas: Books

Non-Government Organizations in the 21st Century by John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander (Thomson South-Western) Using twelve HBS cases, Professor Quelch and Laidler-Kylander (MBA ’92) examine how NGOs like Oxfam America, Doctors... View Details
Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

shape strategy. We excerpt a portion on advice for new CEOs, written with HBS faculty Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria. 3. Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? Professor Jim Heskett poses this provacative question to HBS Working Knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

New Releases

managerial formula. His book is designed to help managers understand that distinction and show them how to adapt and respond accordingly. The Service Profit Chain by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger (Free... View Details
  • Blog

Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond

Applied Sciences, are involved in sustainability. The Harvard Business School Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), led by Michael W. Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, is... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn (MBA ’06), and Curtis W. Johnson (McGraw-Hill) Taking a cue from Bill Gates’s 2005 critique of the American school... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • December 1979
  • Article

Evaluating and Comparing Projects: Simple Detection of False Alarms

By: John S. Hammond and John W. Pratt
Keywords: Performance Evaluation
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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library

Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the construction in honor of his father-in-law, Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island and chairman of the National Monetary Commission and the Federal... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Risk . New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Bernstein, Peter L. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street . New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 1992. Bertsimas, Dimitris, Leonid Kogan, and Andrew View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the Game

By: John Hillas, Elon Kohlberg and John W. Pratt
Noncooperative games are examined from the point of view of an outside observer who believes that the players are rational and that they know at least as much as the observer. The observer is assumed to be able to observe many instances of the play of the game; these... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory; Cooperation
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  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Getting Smart About Philanthropy

School's Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board. Among those included in the video series are HBS alumni Richard Atlas (MBA 1968), Josh Bekenstein (MBA 1984), Bill Draper (MBA 1954), George Kaiser (MBA 1966), Henry McCance (MBA 1966), and View Details
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From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice | Baker Library

From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice Portrait of Phyllis Cary, 1954. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-5-1 Jane Clifton completes field work at John Hancock Life... View Details
  • December 2007
  • Article

Fair (and Not So Fair) Division

By: John W. Pratt
Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The... View Details
Keywords: Price; Management Practices and Processes; Valuation
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