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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 ... -
I Own, So I Help Out: How Psychological Ownership Increases Prosocial Behavior
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020-07-20)This article explores the consequences of psychological ownership going beyond the specific relationship with the possession to guide behavior in unrelated situations. Across seven studies, we find that psychological ... -
The IKEA effect: When labor leads to love
(Elsevier BV, 2012)In four studies in which consumers assembled IKEA boxes, folded origami, and built sets of Legos, we demonstrate and investigate boundary conditions for the IKEA effect—the increase in valuation of self-made products. ... -
Immigrant Entrepreneurship
(2016-08-22)We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quanti.es immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide ... -
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence From the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
(Elsevier BV, 2020-04)We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned ... -
Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers
(2013-05-31)We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during ... -
Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods
(2016-03-09)Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply ... -
The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance
(2014-01-13)The quality of operational processes is an important driver of performance in hospitals. In particular, processes that reliably deliver both evidence-based and patient-centered care, which we call conformance and experiential ... -
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts' Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-07-18)We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost, due to the ... -
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
(INFORMS, 2014)We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies ... -
The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy
(Elsevier BV, 2020-01)There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades. This paper presents three main findings about the impact of mass shootings on gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single ...