Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Title

Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

Becker, Bo; Ivashina, Victoria (Elsevier, 2013-11-25)

Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls ...

Cynicism in Negotiation: When Communication Increases Buyers’ Skepticism

Ert, Eyal; Creary, Stephanie; Bazerman, Max (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014-05)

The economic literature on negotiation shows that strategic concerns can be a barrier to agreement, even when the buyer values the good more than the seller. Yet behavioral research demonstrates that human interaction can ...

Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews

Simonsohn, Uri; Gino, Francesca (SAGE Publications, 2013)

Many professionals, from auditors and lawyers, to clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of ...

The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest

Gino, Francesca; Ariely, Dan (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

Subramanian, Guhan; Petrucci, Caley (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

Jones, Geoffrey G. (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

Alfaro, Laura; Kanczuk, Fabio (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

Schmidt, William; Buell, Ryan Williams (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)

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Heilbron, John Wendell (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

Cohen, Lauren Harry; Malloy, Christopher James; Pomorski, Lukasz (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

Fisher, Colin M.; Pillemer, Julianna; Amabile, Teresa M. (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

Fudenberg, Drew; Ishii, Yuhta; Kominers, Scott Duke (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

Barnhart, Cynthia; Fearing, Douglas Stephen; Odoni, Amedeo; Vaze, Vikrant (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

Ferreira, Kristine; Mower, Emily (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

Heese, Jonas; Krishnan, Ranjani; Ramasubramanian, Hari (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?

Horton, Joanne; Macve, Richard; Serafeim, Georgios (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 ...