Filter Results
:
(652)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(652)
- People (1)
- News (119)
- Research (448)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (266)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(652)
- People (1)
- News (119)
- Research (448)
- Events (8)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (266)
- 2021
- Article
ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation
By: Chuang Gan, Jeremy Schwartz, Seth Alter, Damian Mrowca, Martin Schrimpf, James Traer, Julian De Freitas, Jonas Kubilius, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Nick Haber, Megumi Sano, Kuno Kim, Elias Wang, Michael Lingelbach, Aidan Curtis, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Dan Gutfreund, David Cox, Antonio Torralba, James J. DiCarlo, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Josh H. McDermott and Daniel L.K. Yamins
We introduce ThreeDWorld (TDW), a platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation. TDW enables simulation of high-fidelity sensory data and physical interactions between mobile agents and objects in rich 3D environments. Unique properties include: real-time...
View Details
Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Platform;
Interactive Physical Simulation;
Virtual Environment;
Multi-modal;
AI and Machine Learning
Gan, Chuang, Jeremy Schwartz, Seth Alter, Damian Mrowca, Martin Schrimpf, James Traer, Julian De Freitas, Jonas Kubilius, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Nick Haber, Megumi Sano, Kuno Kim, Elias Wang, Michael Lingelbach, Aidan Curtis, Kevin Feigelis, Daniel M. Bear, Dan Gutfreund, David Cox, Antonio Torralba, James J. DiCarlo, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Josh H. McDermott, and Daniel L.K. Yamins. "ThreeDWorld: A Platform for Interactive Multi-Modal Physical Simulation." Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Datasets and Benchmarks Track 35th (2021).
- 2016
- Working Paper
Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Xiaosheng Mu and Alexander Peysakhovich
Human information processing is often modeled as costless Bayesian inference.
However, research in psychology shows that attention is a computationally costly and potentially limited resource. We study a Bayesian individual for whom computing posterior beliefs is...
View Details
Kominers, Scott Duke, Xiaosheng Mu, and Alexander Peysakhovich. "Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference." Working Paper, February 2016.
CSML: Leading Change
School leaders are key change agents for their schools and are tasked with improving practice while navigating an increasingly challenging school environment. Driving change requires a strong foundation of knowledge and skills to effectively manage improvement and... View Details
- December 2008 (Revised February 2015)
- Case
A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star
By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Nicole Shae Bennett
General Manager Luke Kolville, of the Los Angeles Spartans, struggles with the best approach to negotiate a long-term contract for his star quarterback. The agent for Washington is relatively new to the industry and has his sights set particularly high. Kolville needs...
View Details
Keywords:
Retention;
Human Capital;
Contracts;
Managerial Roles;
Negotiation;
Groups and Teams;
Sports Industry;
Los Angeles
Wasynczuk, Andrew, and Nicole Shae Bennett. "A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star." Harvard Business School Case 909-033, December 2008. (Revised February 2015.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix
By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between...
View Details
Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright. "Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-004, July 2015. (Revised July 2016.)
- August 2020
- Article
Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any...
View Details
Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo. "Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria." Social Choice and Welfare 55, no. 2 (August 2020): 215–228.
- January 2009 (Revised June 2009)
- Case
Distribution at American Airlines (A)
By: Benjamin Edelman
American Airlines sought to reduce the fees it pays to global distribution services (GDSs)—such as SABRE—to reach travel agents. But GDSs held significant tactical advantages. For example, GDSs had signed long-term exclusive contracts with the corporate customers who...
View Details
Keywords:
Price;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Distribution;
Service Operations;
Competition;
Air Transportation Industry;
Travel Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "Distribution at American Airlines (A)." Harvard Business School Case 909-035, January 2009. (Revised June 2009.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- December 2013
- Supplement
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the...
View Details
Keywords:
Negotiation;
Bargaining;
Hard Bargaining;
KGB;
Espionage;
Spying;
War;
National Security;
Alliances;
Ethics;
Negotiation Tactics;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Participants;
Negotiation Offer;
Cambridge;
Moscow;
Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-028, December 2013.
- 2022
- Article
The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning
By: Michael Prinzing, Julian De Freitas and Barbara L. Fredrickson
The desire for a meaningful life is ubiquitous, yet the ordinary concept of a meaningful life is poorly understood. Across six experiments (total N = 2,539), we investigated whether third-person attributions of meaning depend on the psychological states an agent...
View Details
Keywords:
Experimental Philosophy;
Folk Theories;
Meaning In Life;
Moral Psychology;
Positive Psychology;
Moral Sensibility;
Satisfaction
Prinzing, Michael, Julian De Freitas, and Barbara L. Fredrickson. "The Ordinary Concept of a Meaningful Life: The Role of Subjective and Objective Factors in Third-Person Attributions of Meaning." Journal of Positive Psychology 17, no. 5 (2022): 639–654.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery
By: Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott S. Lee
We study how career incentives affect who selects into public health jobs and, through selection, their performance while in service. We collaborate with the Government of Zambia to experimentally vary the salience of career incentives in a newly created health worker...
View Details
Ashraf, Nava, Oriana Bandiera, and Scott S. Lee. "Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Selection, and Performance in Public Service Delivery." Working Paper, March 2015.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any...
View Details
Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke Kominers, and Ross Rheingans-Yoo. "Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-055, January 2018.
- 28 Nov 2022
- News
Here’s the Latest on the FTX Collapse
- November 2017 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Redfin: Redefine Real Estate
By: Hong Luo and Huafeng Yu
Founded in 2004, Redfin envisioned a light-touch model in which clients self-served using the digital platform in exchange for a significantly lower fee than traditional agents. Realizing the narrow appeal of its initial model, Redfin had made significant changes to...
View Details
Keywords:
Adaptation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Real Estate Industry;
North America
Luo, Hong, and Huafeng Yu. "Redfin: Redefine Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 718-430, November 2017. (Revised December 2019.)
- Article
A Collective Biological Processing Algorithm for EKG Signals
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
We establish and explore an analogy between hunting by packs of agents and signal processing. We present a version of adaptive ‘Hunting Swarm’ algorithm (HSA), apply it to EKG signals, and investigate the influence of the model parameters on the filtering of stationary...
View Details
Teodorescu, Mike Horia. "A Collective Biological Processing Algorithm for EKG Signals." Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing 4th (2011): 413–420. (IEEE BIOSIGNALS 2011.)
- Article
Multilateral Matching
By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
We introduce a matching model in which agents engage in joint ventures via multilateral contracts. This approach allows us to consider production complementarities previously outside the scope of matching theory. We show analogues of the first and second welfare...
View Details
Keywords:
Matching;
Stability;
Competitive Equilibrium;
Core;
Networks;
Competition;
Joint Ventures;
Balance and Stability;
Groups and Teams;
Entrepreneurship
Hatfield, John William, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Multilateral Matching." Journal of Economic Theory 156 (March 2015): 175–206.
- February 2011 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
RentJuice
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Liz Kind
RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a subscription software service—sold via phone and live online webinars—that allowed real estate professionals like brokers and agents to manage and market rental listings, communicate with clients, and complete transaction...
View Details
Keywords:
Renting or Rental;
Product Launch;
Applications and Software;
Property;
Business Startups;
Salesforce Management;
Product Marketing;
Real Estate Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Liz Kind. "RentJuice." Harvard Business School Case 811-069, February 2011. (Revised December 2014.)
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
How to Save Major League Baseball from Itself
- November 2001 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
International Management Group (IMG)
By: Bharat N. Anand and Kate Attea
In 2001, International Management Group (IMG) is the dominant company in the sports management industry. Its founder and CEO, Mark McCormack, is credited with having created the industry of sports management in the early 1960s. Over the next 40 years, IMG's expansion...
View Details
Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Finance;
Organizational Structure;
Planning;
Relationships;
Conflict of Interests;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Sports Industry
Anand, Bharat N., and Kate Attea. "International Management Group (IMG)." Harvard Business School Case 702-409, November 2001. (Revised September 2002.)
- June 2019 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Roger Federer's TEAM8: Launching the Laver Cup
By: Anita Elberse
Roger Federer, widely regarded as the best tennis player in the history of the sport, walked onto the court to thunderous applause during in the second edition of the Laver Cup in September 2018. Named after tennis legend Rod Laver, the Cup pitted many of the greatest...
View Details
Keywords:
Superstars;
Tennis;
Tournaments;
Entrepreneurship;
Sports;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Sports Industry
Elberse, Anita. "Roger Federer's TEAM8: Launching the Laver Cup." Harvard Business School Case 519-093, June 2019. (Revised May 2022.)
- Article
Participation Constraints in the Vickrey Auction
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Economic agents are characterized by two privately observable parameters: their willingness to pay for an item being auctioned, and their reservation utility level which must be exceeded, in expectation, to induce them to participate in this auction. This creates a...
View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Participation Constraints in the Vickrey Auction." Economics Letters 16, nos. 1-2 (1984): 31–36.