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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets

Seminars & Conferences Archive

Past NOM Seminars: 2010-2011

May 11, 2011 Strategy Choice in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma Guillaume Frechette, New York University Paper
May 4, 2011 Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Guhan Subramanian, HBS Abstract
Paper
Apr 27, 2011 Toward Information Accounting Robin Hanson, George Mason University Abstract
Apr 20, 2011 No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks Nava Ashraf, HBS Paper
Apr 13, 2011 Confidence and Overconfidence Don Moore, Berkeley Abstract
Mar 23, 2011 Examining Racial Diversity: Situational Influences and Strategic Concerns in Intergroup Interaction Sam Sommers, Tufts University Abstract
Dec 1, 2010 Market Design and Technology in Online Advertising Markets Joshua Gans, Melbourne Abstract
Nov 10, 2010 Sustainable Homeownership and Financial Literacy Laura Kray, Berkeley Abstract
Nov 3, 2010 How (and how much) do pharmaceutical sales representatives influence physician prescribing behavior? Evidence from a large-scale natural experiment Ian Larkin, HBS Abstract
Oct 20, 2010 Does Power Corrupt? Or Does Power Buffer Stress - For Better and For Worse? Dana Carney, Columbia Abstract
Oct 6, 2010 Rank Incentives: Evidence from Field Experiments Iwan Barankay, Wharton

Past NOM Seminars: 2009-2010

Mar 3, 2010 Incentives in the Liver Transplant Market Jason Snyder, UCLA Abstract with Paper
Mar 10, 2010 No Seminar
Mar 17, 2010 No Seminar - Spring Break
Mar 24, 2010 No Seminar - Faculty Meeting
Mar 31, 2010 Reputation, altruism, and the benefits of seller charity in an online marketplace Ray Fisman, Columbia Business School Abstract with Paper
Apr 7, 2010 Sustainable Homeownership and Financial Literacy Stephan Meier, Columbia Business School Abstract with Paper
Apr 14, 2010 Empowering the wolf in sheep's clothing: Why do people choose the wrong leaders? Robert Livingston, Kellogg Abstract Paper
Apr 21, 2010 Reputations for Recommenders Paul Resnick, Michigan Abstract Paper Additional Reading
May 12, 2010 Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover Kathleen McGinn, HBS Paper
Sep 23, 2009 Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008 Guhan Subramanian, HBS Download Summary
Sep 30, 2009 Pooling With Essential And Nonessential Patents Daniel Quint, University of Wisconsin-Madison Download Summary
Oct 7, 2009 On the descriptive value of loss aversion in decisions under risk" Eyal Ert, HBS Paper "Intermediation Reduces Punishment and Reward" Paper Lucas Coffman, HBS This will be a split presentation, shared for 45 minutes each by Eyal Ert and Lucas Coffman
Oct 14, 2009 The Power of Social versus Financial Factors in Behavior Change Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University Download Summary Background Reading
Oct 21, 2009 The social cognition of power: From abstract thinking to executive functions Pamela K. Smith, University of California, Rady School of Management Download Summary Paper
Nov 4, 2009 The Paradox of Meritocracy: Hidden Risks in Merit-based Performance Systems Emilio J. Castilla MIT Paper
Nov 11, 2009 Why do Firms use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence (with Stephen Leider) Ian Larkin, HBS Paper
Nov 18, 2009 CANCELLED

Past NOM Seminars: 2008-2009

Sep 24, 2008 Jim Sebenius, HBS What (and How) Can We Learn from the Great Negotiators?
Oct 1, 2008 Bettina Klaus, HBS Stochastic Stability for Roommate Markets
Oct 8, 2008 Ben Edelman Running Out of Numbers? The Impending Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It
Oct 22, 2008 Guhan Subramanian, HBS Negotiauctions: Applications to the Financial Crisis
Oct 29, 2008 Jennifer Richeson, Northwestern Negotiating Interracial Interactions: Costs, Consequence, & Possibilities
Nov 5, 2008 Adam Alter, Princeton Easy on the Mind; Hard on the Mind: Effects of Fluency on Valuation, Elaboration, and Construal
Nov 12, 2008 Nick Bloom, Stanford The organization of firms across countries
Nov 19, 2008 CANCELLED
Nov 26, 2008 No seminar
Dec 3, 2008 No seminar
Dec 10, 2008 CANCELLED
Feb 18, 2009 Lamar Pierce, Washington University Interpersonal Corruption: Market and Laboratory Evidence
Feb 25, 2009 No seminar
Mar 4, 2009 Stefano DellaVigna, UC Berkeley What Motivates Giving in the Field?
Mar 11, 2009 Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
Mar 18, 2009 No NOM Seminar (HBS faculty seminar meets instead)
Mar 19, 2009 CANCELLED
Mar 25, 2009 No NOM Seminar (Spring Break)
Apr 1, 2009 David Pennock, Yahoo! Inc Crowdsourcing Predictions
Apr 8, 2009 Richard Larrick, Duke Fuqua School of Business The Wisdom of Small Crowds
Apr 15, 2009 George Baker, HBS Developing Community-Scale Wind Power on the Coast of Maine
Apr 22, 2009 Paul J. Healy, Ohio State A Stress-Test of Behavioral Game Theory Models
Apr 29, 2009 Uri Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management Testing the effect of culture, norms and economic institutions on preferences

Past NOM Seminars: 2007-2008

Sep 12, 2007 Elizabeth Dunn, UBC Is the Emotional Imagination Too Rational?
Sep 14, 2007 (Friday) Mike Jensen & Werner Erhard Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality
Sep 19, 2007 No NOM seminar this week
Sep 27, 2007 (Thursday) Danny Oppenheimer, Princeton
Oct 3, 2007 Fuhito Kojima, HBS Incentives and market design in large matching markets
Oct 10, 2007 Steven Leider, HBS Contracts and Reciprocity
Oct 17, 2007 Robin Lee, HBS Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets
Oct 24, 2007 Ben Greiner, HBS Designing eBay's New Reputation System: Experimental and Empirical Evidence The online market platform eBay recently introduced changes to its feedback system. We study the reasons of this change and its effects on bidding behavior, seller trustworthiness and feedback behavior.
Oct 31, 2007 Jason Dana, Penn Altruism re-examined: Refusing information in economic games PDF
Nov 7, 2007 Emily Pronin, Princeton Drowning in Introspections: How it Compromises Judgment and Provokes Conflict PDF
Nov 14, 2007 Katy Milkman & John Beshears, HBS
Nov 15, 2007 Amy Cuddy, Kellogg [rescheduled from yesterday due to illness] Warmth and Competence: Fundamental--and Consequential--Dimensions of Social Judgement   PDF
Nov 28, 2007 Deborah Small, Wharton The Face of Need: Emotion Expression on Charity Advertisements
Dec 5, 2007 Guhan Subramanian Go-Shops vs. No-Shops: Evidence and Implications   PDF
Dec 12, 2007 No NOM Seminar this week
Dec 19, 2007 No NOM Seminar this week
Mar 5, 2008 Maurice Schweitzer, HBS, Visiting How Emotions Influence Trust   PDF #1   PDF #2
Mar 12, 2008 Greg Barron, HBS Underweighting rare events in experience-based decisions: Beyond sample error   PDF
Mar 19, 2008 Nava Ashraf, HBS No Margin, No Mission? Designing Incentives for Public Health Promotion
(joint with Bandiera & Jack)
Mar 26, 2008 Kathleen McGinn and Katherine Milkman, HBS Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Looking Up Before Exiting Law Firms (working title)
Apr 2, 2008 No NOM Seminar this week
Apr 9, 2008 Ido Erev On the fixed pie syndrome and other regarding preferences
Apr 16, 2008 Christian Zehnder, HBS Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence
Apr 23, 2008 No NOM Seminar this week
Apr 30, 2008 No NOM Seminar this week
May 7, 2008 Informal NOM Seminar - Work In Progress Deepak Malhotra, HBS

Past Market Design Workshops: 2009-2010

Mar 5, 2010 Creating the Online Marketplace for Prepared Meals Swaroop Samant, Founder - auntieChef, LLC

Market Design & Analysis for a P2P Backup System Sven Seuken, Harvard Computer Science

Apr 2, 2010 Open Innovation Institutions as Governance or Selection Mechanisms? Evidence from a Field Experiment on a NASA Space Life Science Problem Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School

Product Design in Ad Exchanges: Preliminary Explorations Maher Said, Olin Business School; Microsoft

May 14, 2010 An Auction Design for Sharing Wireless Spectrum Ian Kash, Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society

Concordance Among Holdouts Scott Kominers Harvard Business Economics [with E. G. Weyl, Harvard]

Past Market Design Workshops: 2008-2009

Oct 24, 2008 Ad Auctions: Competition and Mediators Itai Ashlagi abstract article 1 article 2 A Theory of School Choice Lotteries: Why Ties Should Not Be Broken Randomly Utku Unver abstract paper    

Past Market Design Workshops: 2007-2008

Sep 28, 2007 Andrei Hagiu Designing a Two-Sided Platform: When To Increase Search Costs? - article, discussion Alexander Westkamp Failures in the German College Admissions System - discussion
Oct 19, 2007 Eric Budish Primary-Market Auctions for Concert Tickets - discussion Sven Seuken Selfishness and Altruism in P2P Networks: A Large-Scale Economics Field Experiment (with David Parkes and Johan Pouwelse) - discussion
Nov 16, 2007 Hanna Halaburda Expecting Disappointment and the Business of Matchmaking - discussion Ben Edelman Running Out of Integers: The Coming Scarcity of IP Addresses and What Can Be Done About It - discussion
Dec 14, 2007 Yeon-Koo Che Columbia Expanding "Choice" in School Choice (joint with Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Yosuke Yasuda) Wolfgang Gick Dartmouth, Harvard Gatekeeper Organizations: Contract Design under Nested and Endogenous Information Structures
Mar 21, 2008 Greg Lewis Harvard Economics The College Admissions Problem with Uncertainty (w/Chade & Smith) Susan Athey, Harvard Economics
Apr 25, 2008 Andres Hervas-Drane Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona/Harvard Word of Mouth and Recommender Systems: A Theory of the Long Tail Michael Kremer Harvard Economics Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines (w/ Jonathan Levin and Chris Snyder
May 16, 2008 Lars Ehlers Université de Montréal/Harvard Controlled School Choice (w/ Atila Abdulkadiroglu) Fuhito Kojima, Harvard Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms (w/ Yeon-Koo Che)
Oct 24, 2008 Itai Ashlagi, Harvard Business School Utku Unver Boston College