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Delayed-Response Strategies in Repeated Games with Observation Lags

By: Drew Fudenberg, Yuhta Ishii and Scott Duke Kominers
We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that is, each player either observes an almost-perfect... View Details
Keywords: ＂Repeated Games＂; Folk Theorem; Private Monitoring; Observation Lag; Game Theory
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    Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance

    How does a firm's human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two... View Details
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    The timing of team leader coaching interventions

    People who coach teams – including team leaders, senior members of an organization, and external consultants – must observe team dynamics and diagnose opportune moments to intervene.  My dissertation, “The timing and type of team... View Details
    • 26 Mar 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer
    • January 2004
    • Article

    Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

    By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn
    We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry
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    • May 2017
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    Behavioral Processes in Long-Lag Interventions

    By: Dale T. Miller, Jennifer E. Dannals and Julian Zlatev
    We argue that psychologists who conduct experiments with long lags between the manipulation and the outcome measure should pay more attention to behavioral processes that intervene between the manipulation and the outcome measure. Neglect of such processes, we contend,... View Details
    Keywords: Field Experiments; Interventions; Behavioral Mediation; Theories Of Change; Longitudinal Studies; Behavior; Research; Change; Theory
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    • 04 Aug 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

    Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology
    • 31 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 31, 2009

    billion at the end of 2007. Lan is at an interesting point in history as the low-cost model was recently implemented. While early results have been strong, observers wonder if the airline can successfully manage three disparate business... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Free Software

    There can be a significant lag time between a company's investment and extraction of a profit. "People can be too quick to point fingers, saying that one company is stealing while another is giving something away. In fact, the whole... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    financial institutions, markets, and instruments contribute to this process. Our approach to research is distinguished by its unique combination of theory, empirical analysis, mathematical modeling, and field observations at companies.... View Details
    • 23 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

    When Apple launched its latest iPad, experts and nonexperts alike expected it to be dubbed "iPad 3," a natural follow-on to the second-generation iPad 2. Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: "the new iPad." View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 05 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

    Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
    • 12 Mar 2021
    • News

    My Favorite Case

    the service ended and the rest of the family started walking down the hill, I happened to turn around and saw that my son had lagged behind at the gravesite. I immediately knew exactly what he was going to do, and as everyone else turned... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Op-Ed

    Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

    WTO, World Bank, and the OECD. Or they could be related to lagging capabilities of domestic companies, either in understanding foreign markets or in their own products, services, or value chains. Another large body of thinking is devoted... View Details
    Keywords: by Christian Ketels
    • 28 Oct 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: October 28, 2008

    appearance of prejudice during social interaction is to avoid talking about race, or even acknowledging racial difference. Four experiments involving a dyadic task investigated antecedents and consequences of this tendency. Observed... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 14, 2007

    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... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 20 Apr 2020
    • Book

    Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

    enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and the offices with a lagging health story will lag.” To convey to managers the benefits of the healthy building... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
    • 04 Sep 2019
    • News

    Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives

    data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients around the world. “The majority of new cancer cases are in... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 21 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 21

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44789 If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged? By: Comin, Diego A., and Martí Mestieri Ferrer Abstract—We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Mar 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

    thinks they are important). The topic has reached the pages of the McKinsey Quarterly, especially its January issue, where Peter Bregman observes that "you can't get everything done, even if you follow the right system." He... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett