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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Danielle Abstract—Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
holdings of securitizations of nonprime mortgages in the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2007-2009. They find evidence that suggests that fund managers’ personal experiences were highly determinate of both the quantity and...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
personal relationships and the preferences of a few key decision makers. Informal rules get made on how the system operates. Then one day when a firm has grown enough, it discovers that it has a channel footprint. Whether this organically...
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- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
marketplaces. The way marketplaces and intermediaries rank offers from sellers or service-providers can be thought of as an incentive system. Economists are well positioned to analyze issues such as short-term user behavior and the View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents, and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability of...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
commons where the equilibrium is not a stable one, and incentives to deviate are high for individual actors (profitability strikes again!). Consequently, a lot of the game theory we studied actually comes into action there. Moreover, the...
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- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career changes. When your career suddenly...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
people, and it provides skills and good wages in a country where the average person makes from $90 to $100 per year. Equally important is the project's catalytic impact on future investment. The sponsors are considering adding a second...
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by Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
from NBER Working Paper No. 6011, April 1997, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 98-024, 1997) Abstract We model the equilibrium price and quantity of risk transfer between firms and financial intermediaries. Value-maximizing firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
firm's investment opportunities. We apply Perfect Bayesian equilibrium solution concepts and confirm that over a range of reasonable model parameters the firm's investment decision does not maximize expected profits. Surprisingly, this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
2013 European Business Review Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers' View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
several features of the data, including equilibrium dividend policies similar to a Lintner partial-adjustment model; modal dividend changes of zero, stronger market reactions to dividend cuts than increases, relative infrequency and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a theoretical tension for group decision-making between the benefits of information...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize equilibrium information provision, disclosure levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
faces decisions on the expatriation status of four of his firm's talented executives. Each decision will impact the candidate's professional and personal life and will have implications for effective management and growth in Solvay's...
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Martha Lagace