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The Effect of Price on Firm Reputation
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-07)Although a business’s reputation can affect its pricing, prices can also affect its reputation. To explore the effect of prices on reputation, we investigate daily data on menu prices and online ratings from a large rating ... -
The Effect of Prohibiting Deal Protection in Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from the United Kingdom
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-02)Since 2011, the UK has prohibited all deal protections—including termination fees—in M&A deals. Prior to 2011, the UK permitted termination fees up to 1% of deal value and there was no prohibition on other protection ... -
The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions
(Elsevier, 2012)Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An offer's probability of acceptance ... -
The Effect of Retaliation Costs on Employee Whistleblowing
(Elsevier BV, 2021-04)We use large increases in unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to study the effects of expected retaliation costs on employee whistleblowing. Increases in UI benefits reduce the costs that arise from a job loss, one of the ... -
The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around: A Randomized Field Study
(2014-07-18)Management-By-Walking-Around (MBWA) is a widely adopted technique in hospitals that involves senior managers directly observing frontline work. However, few studies have rigorously examined its impact on organizational ... -
Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence
(2017-01-23)Paid search has become an increasingly common form of advertising, comprising about half of all online advertising expenditures. To shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field ... -
The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior
(Elsevier BV, 2018-07)The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the ... -
The Effects of Quota Frequency on Sales Force Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2017-01-18)We collaborate with a Swedish retail chain to conduct a field experiment in which we change the sales force compensation scheme from a monthly to a daily quota plan. This intervention, along with a control group that did ... -
Eliminating Unintended Bias in Personalized Policies Using Bias-Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT)
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022-03-08)<p>An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to ... -
The Emergence of 'Us and Them' in 80 Lines of Code: Modeling Group Genesis in Homogeneous Populations
(SAGE Publications, 2014)Psychological explanations of group genesis often require population heterogeneity in identity or other characteristics, whether deep (e.g., religion) or superficial (e.g., eye color). We use game-theoretical agent-based ... -
Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem
(American Psychological Association, 2014-11-25)Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce—and demonstrate the benefits of—emodiversity: the variety and relative ... -
Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-12)What are the long-term consequences of compensation changes? Using data from an inbound sales call center, we study employee responses to a compensation change that ultimately reduced take-home pay by 7% for the average ... -
Enabling Versus Controlling
(2015-07-21)In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision of their services to clients. We study the tradeoffs that arise in choosing between a traditional mode (where ... -
Enabling Versus Controlling - Online Appendix
(2015-07-21)This online appendix contains the derivation of the closed form solutions for the examples used in the main paper. It also details the numerical analysis performed to check the robustness of the first part of Corollary 1 ... -
The energizing nature of work engagement: Toward a new need-based theory of work motivation
(Elsevier BV, 2017)We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for ... -
Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change
(2013)Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically ... -
Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Production
(2019-11)We consider how the cognitive similarity between knowledge-sharing partners affects the knowledge-production process, namely knowledge transfer, creation, and diffusion. We theorize that knowledge production is systematically ... -
Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research
(2016-02-23)This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers. I define relevant research papers as those whose research questions address problems ... -
Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization
(Elsevier, 2015)This article explores the role of entrepreneurial imagination on the international expansion of multinational enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The ... -
Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight
(Wiley, 2021-07)We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative ...