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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
Rank-Order Tournaments Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Constance E. Helfat, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti Abstract Economic analysis of rank-order tournaments has shown that intensified competition leads...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
deep into the tournament a team will go, because that will affect the number of over-the-air impressions that are generated for the brand. They must consider many other factors such as the global appeal of an opponent or of a particular...
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Garry Emmons
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Feedback in Tournament and Individual Performance Compensation Plans Authors:Lynn Hannan, Ranjani Krishnan, and Andrew Newman Publication: The Accounting Review 83, no. 4 (July 2008) Abstract This study investigates the effects of...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Glaeser, Kominers, and Harvard doctoral candidate Andrew Hillis further honed the algorithm to develop a tool for the City of Boston. After officials were asked to identify health violations of the most concern, the researchers and Boston ran an open View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
Embarrassing losses to the JVs have the varsity crew members dispirited and complaining about one another. Confidence is fading fast. The national rowing tournament is a week away. Should Coach P simply declare the JV boat to be the new...
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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
Publications February 2015 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
platform, Lakhani developed the NASA Tournament Lab to create contests that improve computer codes and data analytics solutions. With Harvard Medical School researchers, he designed a competition to break data bottlenecks and speed up DNA...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53958 Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating Managerial Discretion in a Geographically Dispersed Organization By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He is on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation and several AI-based startups. Sharing their research on hundreds of enterprises in the U.S.,...
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- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
awards, buildings, scholarships, a professorship, and even a hockey tournament bear McArthur’s name. In 2013, he received the Order of Canada, a prestigious civilian honor, and last year he accepted the Harvard Medal. Now 83 and retired,...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice crowdsourcing, including Data.gov, TopCoder, OpenIDEO, Google, Threadless, and Wikipedia. He serves as principal investigator of the NASA...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
another award for its use of social media to reach its fan base. As the organizer and host of “The Championships, Wimbledon,” the oldest of tennis's four Grand Slams, the AELTC prided itself on tradition and decorum. Widely regarded as the most prestigious professional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
tournament at Colonial Country Club. Ultimately, she didn't make the final cut, but her victory as a woman competing successfully in a male tournament carried so much interest and credibility the...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
"We're trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business," said Lakhani, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS and the Principal Investigator of the Harvard-NASA View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting experience across the country...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53787 Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance By: Cai, Wei, and Susanna Gallani Abstract—This study explores the effects of subjective adjustments of objective performance...
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- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
I’d recommend to other companies looking to bring new employees into the fold. For example, we had a Maverick-wide poker tournament (nothing like losing money that bonds you), and organized a wine tasting experience across the country...
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- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
American Youth Football National Championships in 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The tournament also presented leadership challenges as some of the team’s paperwork was mishandled by administrators. As a result, the team arrived in Orlando...
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