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  • 12 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda; Computer
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Structural Closure and Exposure: Formation of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Positional advantages arise when actors obtain rewards attached to positions they occupy, but these rewards are not merited by their performance. Existing theory suggests that in competitive markets there should be no positional advantages. This paper proposes a model... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Jobs and Positions; Managerial Roles; Performance Improvement; Alignment; Competitive Advantage; Equality and Inequality
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  • June 2008
  • Article

The Market for Mergers and the Boundaries of the Firm

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and David Robinson
We relate the property rights theory of the firm to empirical regularities in the market for mergers and acquisitions. We first show that high market-to-book acquirers typically do not purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Assets; Investment; Property; Mathematical Methods; Boundaries
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  • 04 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America

Keywords: by Marion Fourcade & Rakesh Khurana; Education
  • 20 Feb 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt & Isabel Tecu
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Nitin Nohria

    Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

    As Dean, building on... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; arts; biotechnology; emerging market private equity; energy; executive search; financial services; green technology; health care; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services
    • 21 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

    Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
    • Research Summary

    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
    • 2018
    • Book

    A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility

    By: Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Fragility; Economic Risk; Investor Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Financial Crisis; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Investment; Values and Beliefs; United States
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    • August 2017
    • Article

    The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

    By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
    We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a formal theory where founders may have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Entrepreneurship; Equity
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    • September 2023
    • Article

    A Pull versus Push Framework for Reputation

    By: Jillian J. Jordan
    Reputation is a powerful driver of human behavior. Reputation systems incentivize 'actors' to take reputation-enhancing actions, and 'evaluators' to reward actors with positive reputations by preferentially cooperating with them. This article proposes a reputation... View Details
    Keywords: Reputation; Behavior; Game Theory
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    • 25 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

    expectations with them. With the support of ambitious university presidents, they strove to make their new academic environments like those from which they had come. This internal drive was reinforced by external systems for accrediting,... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
    • 2017
    • Other Article

    Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

    By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
    The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
    Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time

    By: Jillian Berry Jaeker, Anita L. Tucker and Michael H. Lee
    We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work setting increases wait times due to additional services being provided to customers as a consequence of... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Demand and Consumers; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
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    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    was placed in receivership on the morning of March 10. HBS Working Paper Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables By: Michele Fioretti, Junnan He and Jorge Tamayo We show that when firms compete via supply... View Details
    • October 2007
    • Article

    The Art of Designing Markets

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
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    • 12 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

    Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

    promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as owners of the... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • December 2009
    • Article

    Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

    By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Alvin E. Roth
    The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability, and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences—ties—in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Secondary Education; Marketplace Matching; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Balance and Stability
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