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- November 1976
- Article
Partial Equilibrium Approach to the Free-Rider Problem
By: Jerry R. Green, Elon Kohlberg and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Groves and others have shown that truthful answers concerning preferences for public goods can be elicited as dominant strategies if appropriate tax-subsidies rules are applied. This paper studies the statistical properties of the total revenues generated by one of the... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges
- February 1976 (Revised November 1983)
- Case
EG&G, Inc. (B)
Raises the dilemmas of making strategic decisions within an organizational construct. The divestment of a division of the company raises not only strategic issues but organizational and interpersonal ones as well. The decision is framed through the strategic planning... View Details
- January 1976 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
Contract and Consensus at General Motors--1900-1984
By: George C. Lodge
- January 1976
- Teaching Note
American General Films, Teaching Note
Keywords: Motion Pictures and Video Industry
- July 1975
- Background Note
Introduction to the Case Method
Guidelines to aid the student in analyzing a case situation by casting himself or herself in the role of protagonist, developing criteria for alternative decisions, and generalizing to other situations. View Details
Keywords: Cases
- March 1974
- Article
Generalized Mean-Variance Tradeoffs for Best Perturbation Corrections to Approximate Portfolio Decisions
By: Paul A. Samuelson and Robert C. Merton
- Article
Temporary General Equilibrium in a Sequential Trading Model with Spot and Futures Transactions
By: Jerry R. Green
The existence of an equilibrium is proven for a two-period model in which there are spot transactions and futures transactions in the first period and spot markets in the second period. Prices at that date are viewed with subjective uncertainty by all traders. This... View Details
- September 1972 (Revised February 1984)
- Case
Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall
Illustration of the two main types of errors resulting from use of the economic order quantity (EOQ) as a tool in production scheduling. Designed to permit class discussion to begin with a consideration of one common type of mistake, errors in calculation of the EOQ... View Details
- September 1971 (Revised July 1976)
- Case
American General Films
Keywords: Motion Pictures and Video Industry
- April 1971 (Revised April 1983)
- Case
General Electric Co.--1970
- 1971
- Working Paper
A Simple General Equilibrium Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
By: Jerry R. Green
- October 1969 (Revised April 1980)
- Case
General Public Utilities Corp. (B)
By: John H. McArthur and William E. Fruhan Jr.
Keywords: Utilities Industry
- November 1968 (Revised October 1970)
- Case
General Public Utilities Corp. (A)
By: John H. McArthur and William E. Fruhan Jr.
Keywords: Utilities Industry
- Research Summary
American Secretaries of State Project: Negotiation, Diplomacy, and Statecraft
With Nicholas Burns and Robert Mnookin, I co-lead a project to do background research on all living former American Secretaries of State, interview them extensively on video at Harvard (if possible) about their most challenging negotiations, and analyze this... View Details
- 2023
- Chapter
Analyzing Human Decisions and Machine Predictions in Bail Decision Making
By: Jon Kleinberg, Himabindu Lakkaraju, Jure Leskovec, Jens Ludwig and Sendhil Mullainathan
BOOK ABSTRACT: Oriented toward the introductory student, The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality
- Forthcoming
- Article
Comparing the Value of Perceived Human Versus AI-Generated Empathy
By: Matan Rubin, Joanna Z. Li, Federico Zimmerman, Desmond C. Ong, Amit Goldenberg and Anat Perry
Artificial intelligence (AI) and specifically large language models demonstrate remarkable social–emotional abilities, which may improve human–AI interactions and AI’s emotional support capabilities. However, it remains unclear whether empathy, encompassing... View Details