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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

19 Oct 2017
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Games of Threats

Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Education

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary: They just... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

2021
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'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback

By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Jennifer Abel, Juliana Schroeder and Francesca Gino

People often avoid giving feedback to others even when it would help fix a problem immediately. Indeed, in a pilot field study (N=155), only 2.6% of individuals provided feedback to survey administrators that the administrators had food or marker on their faces.... View Details

Keywords: Feedback; Helping; Prosocial Behavior; Relationships; Social Psychology; Theory; Perception

January 1994
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Salesforce Compensation Plans: Managerial Insights from Recent Theoretical Developments

By: R. Lal

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Management; Theory

November 2001
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An Interview with Heidi Roizen

By: Kathleen L. McGinn

Heidi Roizen being interviewed by MBA students, talks about the design to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of network development and maintenance. She focuses on the concept of an egocentric and personal network. View Details

Keywords: Design; Retention; Networks; Theory

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2009
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Institutional Work and the Paradox of Embedded Agency

By: Julie Battilana and Thomas D'Aunno

Keywords: Working Conditions; Agency Theory; Organizations

05 Sep 2013
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Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani & Michael E. Menietti.

12 Sep 2007
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The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

December 2006
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How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and a Case Study

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product; Theory; Information

2004
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Mergers and Acquisitions: An Experimental Analysis of Synergies, Externalities and Dynamics

By: R. Croson, A. Gomes, K. L. McGinn and M. Nöth

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Theory

01 Jun 2003
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Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes

What do men want? The conventional theory — the so–called compensatory consumption thesis — has held that men are torn between responsibility and domesticity on the one hand and a desire to live the untethered, exciting life of the rebel... View Details

Keywords: Douglas; Holt; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 May 2014
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‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure

Keywords: by Christopher G. Myers, Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino

06 Sep 2007
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Why We Aren’t as Ethical as We Think We Are: A Temporal Explanation

Keywords: by Ann E. Tenbrunsel, Kristina A. Diekmann, Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni & Max H. Bazerman

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

Summing Up Whether or not this month's respondents represent a self-selected sample of enthusiasts for the book, The Wisdom of Crowds, they agree that the findings it presents have strong implications for leaders, particularly those in large, compartmentalized... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2022
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Probing GNN Explainers: A Rigorous Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of GNN Explanation Methods.

By: Chirag Agarwal, Marinka Zitnik and Himabindu Lakkaraju

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly employed in real-world applications, it becomes critical to ensure that the stakeholders understand the rationale behind their predictions. While several GNN explanation methods have been proposed recently, there has... View Details

Keywords: Graph Neural Networks; Explanation Methods; Mathematical Methods; Framework; Theory; Analysis

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Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

By: Christopher Stanton and Catherine Thomas

Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers... View Details

Keywords: Marketplace Matching; Agency Theory