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The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote ... -
Deals in the Time of Pandemic
(2021-06)The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new attention to the period between signing and closing in M&A transactions. Transactional planners heavily negotiate the provisions that govern the behavior of the parties during this ... -
Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective
(2014-01-13)This working paper examines the evolution of concepts of the responsibility of business in a historical and global perspective. It shows that from the nineteenth century American, European, Japanese, Indian and other ... -
Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-06)In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves ... -
Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements
(2014-11-06)We explore how individuals make decisions in an operations management setting when there is information asymmetry between the firm and an outside investor. A common assumption in the signaling game literature is that beliefs ... -
Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 - 1974)
(2017-03-21)American Honda was founded in 1959 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company to facilitate sales and distribution in the United States. The details of American Honda’s early history have long served as evidence ... -
Decoding Inside Information
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trading. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading ... -
Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain
(2017-11-07)How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized ... -
Delayed-response strategies in repeated games with observation lags
(Elsevier BV, 2014)We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that ... -
Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation
(Springer, 2012)This paper summarizes research trends and opportunities in the area of managing air transportation demand and capacity. Capacity constraints and resulting congestion and low schedule reliability currently impose large costs ... -
Demand Learning and Pricing for Varying Assortments
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2023-07)Problem definition: We consider the problem of demand learning and pricing for retailers who offer assortments of substitutable products that change frequently, for example, due to limited inventory, perishable or ... -
The Department of Justice as a Gatekeeper in Whistleblower-initiated Corporate Fraud Enforcement: Drivers and Consequences
(Elsevier BV, 2021-02)We examine drivers and consequences of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight of whistleblower cases of corporate fraud against the government. We find that the DOJ is more likely to intervene in and conduct longer ... -
‘Deprival Value’ vs. ‘Fair Value’ Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the ‘Revenue Recognition’ Conundrum?
(Informa UK Limited, 2011-12)Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when ... -
Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
(University of Chicago Press, 2014)This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, ... -
Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals
(2014-05-13)Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, ... -
Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance
(2017-06-28)The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of ... -
Designing Online Marketplaces: Trust and Reputation Mechanisms
(2017-01-23)Online marketplaces have proliferated over the past decade, creating new markets where none existed. By reducing transaction costs, online marketplaces facilitate transactions that otherwise would not have occurred and ... -
Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices
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Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted
(Wiley, 2022-01)The COVID‐19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government‐imposed restrictions that temporarily shuttered millions of American businesses. We use a nationwide survey of thousands of small business ... -
Development of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Periapical Disease Detection in Dental Radiographs
(MDPI AG, 2020-06-24)Periapical radiolucencies, which can be detected on panoramic radiographs, are one of the most common radiographic findings in dentistry and have a differential diagnosis including infections, granuloma, cysts and tumors. ...