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Corporate Purpose and Financial Performance
(2017-03-23)We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of US companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance
(2012-11-09)In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?
(INFORMS, 2014)This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a ... -
Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality
(2015-04-06)An increasing number of companies make sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date however, the prior academic ... -
Cost Conscious? The Neural and Behavioral Impact of Price Primacy on Decision-Making
(2015)Price is a key factor in most purchases, but it can be presented at different stages of decision making prior to a purchase. We examine the sequence-dependent effects of price and product information on the decision-making ... -
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
(Elsevier BV, 2018-06)We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the ... -
Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-07)Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about ... -
Creating Reciprocal Value Through Operational Transparency
(2014-12-09)We investigate whether organizations can create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, ... -
Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
(2016-09-20)Though fundamental to innovation and essential to many industries and occupations, individual creativity has received limited attention as an economic behavior and has historically proven difficult to study. This paper ... -
Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
(University of Chicago Press, 2013)We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released from prison and individuals released from electronic monitoring. Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, ... -
The Cross Section of Expected Holding Period Returns and Their Dynamics: A Present Value Approach
(Elsevier, 2015)We provide a tractable model of firm-level expected holding period returns using two firm fundamentals—book-to-market ratio and ROE—and study the cross-sectional properties of the model-implied expected returns. We find ... -
Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations
(2016-08-22)Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, ... -
A Cross-Species Study of PI3K Protein-Protein Interactions Reveals the Direct Interaction of P85 and SHP2
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Using a series of immunoprecipitation (IP) – tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) experiments and reciprocal BLAST, we conducted a fly-human cross-species comparison of the phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K) interactome in a ... -
Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
(American Economic Association, 2016)The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire ... -
CSR as Reputation Insurance: Primum Non Nocere
(2011)We provide a theoretical framework showing how CSR activities can insure a firm against lost reputation in the face of adverse events. We offer evidence for this linkage through a case study and a multi-year analysis of ... -
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-06-06)Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact ... -
Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics
(2014-01-13)Recent calls for greater openness in our private and public innovation systems have particularly urged for more open disclosure and granting of access to intermediate works–early results, algorithms, materials, data and ... -
Curbing adult student attrition: Evidence from a field experiment
(2015-04-06)Roughly 20% of adults in the OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges offer fully government subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting ... -
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
(INFORMS, 2013)Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that ... -
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices - Appendix
(INFORMS, 2012-10-03)