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  • January 2021
  • Article

Chain Stability in Trading Networks

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
We show that in general trading networks with bilateral contracts, a suitably adapted chain stability concept (Ostrovsky, 2008) is equivalent to stability (Hatfield and Kominers, 2012; Hatfield et al., 2013) if all agents' preferences are fully substitutable and... View Details
Keywords: Matching; Trading Networks; Chain Stability; Stability; Competitive Equilibria; Full Substitutability; Laws Of Aggregate Supply And Demand; Contracts; Market Design; Balance and Stability
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  • November–December 2014
  • Article

Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization

By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records can track who clicked what ad—and often who saw what ad—to compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Fraud; Optimization; Incentives; Digital Marketing; Contracts; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Design
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  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 9

  Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2013
  • Article

Guidance from ARIN on Legal Aspects of the Transfer of Internet Protocol Numbers

By: Benjamin Edelman and Stephen Ryan
Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a challenge: most IP addresses have already been assigned to networks and organizations, leaving few left... View Details
Keywords: IP Addresses; Regulation; Market Design; Market Transactions; Rights; Contracts; Internet; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks
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  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

that the owners of the scarce resources are no longer only the shareholders but also the employees. The implications are profound. Top management must begin renegotiating both implicit and explicit contracts with key stakeholders,... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50571 February 2016 Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management Under Short-Term Take-or-Pay... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from Partner Integration:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

signed may sour. Risk Factors The most common causes of social contract problems are lack of awareness and benign neglect. The parties involved inevitably form expectations about how the deal will be carried out, whether they discuss them... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

strategy. Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Publication:Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a scalable, data-driven method for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

worth using. But today, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research collaborators, "not invented here" is becoming a badge of honor—and more than that, a source of competitive advantage. To design the 787... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

here as enterprise information technologies. Because complete contracts over IT assets are not possible, relationship specificity is an important consideration; scholarship on the theory of the firm yields a consistent prescription that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2006
  • Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

option practices remains unknown, this most recent scandal has deepened the sense in many quarters that option contracts given to managers distort behavior in destructive ways. The ability to play with, and respond to, the many variables... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
  • 29 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

emotions can play in negotiations. Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles Poorly designed leadership roles set up a family business for failure. John A. Davis offers a system that produces the decisiveness and unity needed for... View Details
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

shareholders have lost an "enormous" amount of wealth? Designing regulatory systems is very tricky and could result in the "unintended consequences" of slippery CEO pay efforts, he observed. "I think society pays... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

July 31, 2017 AIDS A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS By: Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

reports of their peers." Recruit’s performance appraisal system, Will-Can-Must, is designed to help employees build their future. Will asks employees what they want to do now and over the next three years; Can assesses employees’ current... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

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