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Historical Origins of Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s
(2014-01-13)This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies, Bayer and Henkel and traces the evolution of their ... -
Hospital Board and Management Practices are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics
(2015)National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, although crucial to driving ... -
Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia
(American Economic Association, 2014)We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether ... -
How Beliefs about Self-creation Inflate Value in the Human Brain
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015)Humans have a tendency to overvalue their own ideas and creations. Understanding how these errors in judgement emerge is important for explaining suboptimal decisions, as when individuals and groups choose self-created ... -
How Do Sales Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in the Nerlove–Arrow Framework
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-11)This paper evaluates the short- and long-term value of sales representatives’ detailing visits to different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide ... -
How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
(Elsevier, 2013)The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the ... -
How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2013-05-22)Weather is a key source of income risk for many firms and households, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper studies how an innovative risk management instrument for hedging rainfall risk affects production ... -
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
(American Economic Association, 2015)We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large ... -
How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking
(Academy of Management, 2022-10)How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a ... -
How Market Power Affects Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Car Dealerships
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-02)This paper investigates empirically the effect of market power on dynamic pricing in the presence of inventories. Our setting is the auto retail industry; we analyze how automotive dealerships adjust prices to inventory ... -
How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay
(2014-11-03)Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents’ estimates ... -
How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics
(INFORMS, 2015-10-06)Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past several decades. In this study, we investigate the short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning ... -
How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-in-Differences Estimates?
(Elsevier BV, 2022-05)We explain when and how staggered difference-in-differences regression estimators, commonly applied to assess the impact of policy changes, are biased. These biases are likely to be relevant for a large portion of research ... -
How Much to Make and How Much to Buy? Explaining Plural Sourcing Strategies
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09-03)While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice, firms often make and buy the same input—they engage in plural sourcing. We argue that explaining the mix of external procurement ... -
How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures
(2014-01-13)Hybrid organizations that combine multiple, existing organizational forms are frequently proposed as a source of organizational innovation, yet little is known about the origins of such organizations. We propose that ... -
How to Become a Sustainable Company
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How to Choose a Default
(Behavioral Science & Policy Association, 2022-06)We have developed a model for setting a default when a population is choosing among ordered choices—that is, ones listed in ascending or descending order. A company, for instance, might want to set a default contribution ... -
How to Tie Everyday Work to Strategy
(World Scientific Publishing, 2009)The paper describes how Harvard Business School's Knowledge and Library Services (KLS) leveraged collective knowledge of its employees in formulating, implementing, and evaluating strategy. The organization was faced with ... -
Humblebragging: A Distinct – and Ineffective – Self-Presentation Strategy
(2015-04-24)Humblebragging – bragging masked by a complaint – is a distinct and, given the rise of social media, increasingly ubiquitous form of self-promotion. We show that although people often choose to humblebrag when motivated ... -
Hurry Up and Wait: Differential Impacts of Congestion, Bottleneck Pressure, and Predictability on Patient Length of Stay
(2012-12-06)High work load, from high inventory levels, impacts unit processing times, but prior operations management studies have found conflicting results regarding direction. Thus, it is difficult to predict inventory’s effects ...