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Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
(2014-11-06)While a number of studies document that organizations go through numerous stages as they increase their commitment to sustainability over time, we know little about the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in ... -
Children Develop a Veil of Fairness
(American Psychological Association, 2012-12-07)Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a ... -
Children Develop a Veil of Fairness
(2012-07-25)Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a ... -
China’s “New Regionalism”: Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)The study of Chinese political economy has undergone a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to examining the origins of local economic ... -
Choosing To Be "Good": How Managers Determine Their Impact on Financial and Social Performance
(2015-07-29)We investigate the relationship between a manager’s influence on firm financial and social performance. To examine the mechanism governing the relationship between a manager’s investment decisions along both dimensions of ... -
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by ... -
The Climate Custodians
(2016-07-20)Can custody banks become key players in climate change? Custody banks joining the battle against climate change will signal a significant shift in governance ideology for this highly regulated industry so critical to the ... -
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
(2013-05-21)This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences ... -
Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards
(2014-10-28)Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs—like certification regimes and codes of conduct—that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under ... -
Collective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm’s Rhetorical History
(Academy of Management, 2012)Much organizational identity research has grappled with the question of identity emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins ... -
Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2012-09-04)We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School system of hospitals and research centers to understand how colocation impacts the likelihood of scientific collaboration. We introduce ... -
A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2017)Objective: Assess whether a commitment contract informed by behavioral economics leads to persistent virologic suppression among HIV-positive patients with poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Design: Single-center ... -
Communicating Frames in Negotiations
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Commuting with a Plan: How Goal-Directed Prospection Can Offset the Strain of Commuting
(2016-02-23)To get to work, employees need to commute. Across the globe, the average commute is 38 minutes each way per day. It is well known that longer commutes have negative effects on employees’ well-being and job-related outcomes. ... -
Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks
(2012)Government bonds comove more strongly with bond-like stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve ... -
A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-02-19)We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it ... -
Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis
(INFORMS, 2011)Platform competition is ubiquitous, yet platform market structure is little understood. Theory models typically suffer from equilibrium multiplicity—platforms might coexist or the market might tip to either platform. We ... -
Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com
(Wiley, 2018-08-28)Research Summary: Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces and compete against them. Using data from Amazon.com to study Amazon's entry pattern into third‐party sellers' product spaces, we find that ... -
Competing with Privacy
(INFORMS, 2014-10-24)We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding ... -
Complex Disclosure
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-05)We present evidence that unnecessarily complex disclosure can result from strategic incentives to shroud information. In our laboratory experiment, senders are required to report their private information truthfully but ...