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    • Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? 

      Ewens, Michael; Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset that tracks the performance ...
    • Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of Information Disclosure 

      Jin, Ginger; Luca, Michael; Martin, Daniel (2015-04-14)
      A central prediction of information economics is that market forces can lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products, yet little voluntary disclosure is observed in the field. In ...
    • Is the SEC captured? Evidence from comment-letter reviews 

      Heese, Jonas; Khan, Mozaffar; Ramanna, Karthik (2017-06-28)
      SEC oversight of publicly listed firms ranges from comment letter (CL) reviews of firms’ reporting compliance to pursuing enforcement actions against violators. Prior literature finds that firm political connections (PC) ...
    • Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns 

      Greenwood, Robin Marc; Hanson, Samuel Gregory (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)
      We show that the credit quality of corporate debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing ...
    • It doesn’t hurt to ask: Question-asking increases liking. 

      Huang, Karen; Yeomans, Michael H; Brooks, Alison Wood; Minson, Julia A; Gino, Francesca (American Psychological Association (APA), 2017)
      Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate ...
    • "I’ll Have One of Each": How Separating Rewards into (Meaningless) Categories Increases Motivation 

      Wiltermuth, Scott S.; Gino, Francesca (American Psychological Association, 2012-12-07)
      We propose that separating rewards into categories can increase motivation, even when those categories are meaningless. Across six experiments, people were more motivated to obtain one reward from one category and another ...
    • J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013) 

      Wageman, Ruth; Amabile, Teresa M. (American Psychological Association, 2013-08-05)
      When J. Richard Hackman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 8, 2013, psychology lost a giant. Six and a half feet tall, with an outsize personality to match, Richard was the leading scholar in two distinct areas: ...
    • Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Diversification in New Distant Knowledge Integration 

      Nagle, Francis; Teodoridis, Florenta (Wiley, 2019-10-15)
      We consider the role of individual‐level diversification as a mechanism through which skilled researchers engage in successful exploration—recognizing and integrating new knowledge external to one's domains of expertise. ...
    • The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective 

      Coles, Peter Andrew; Cawley, John; Levine, Phillip B.; Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E.; Siegfried, John J. (American Economic Association, 2010)
      This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market ...
    • Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program 

      Tucker, Anita Lynn; Singer, Sara Jean (2012-07-16)
      Service organizations frequently implement improvement programs to increase quality. These programs often rely on employees’ suggestions about improvement opportunities. Organizations face a trade-off with such ...
    • Knowledge about Tuberculosis and Infection Prevention Behavior: A Nine City Longitudinal Study from India 

      Huddart, Sophie; Bossuroy, Thomas; Pons, Vincent; Baral, Siddhartha; Pai, Madhukar; Delavallade, Clara (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-10-30)
      Background Improving patients’ tuberculosis (TB) knowledge is a salient component of TB control strategies. Patient knowledge of TB may encourage infection prevention behaviors and improve treatment adherence. The purpose ...
    • Labor Regulations and European Venture Capital 

      Bozkaya, Ant; Kerr, William Robert (2013-05-31)
      European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms ...
    • Laboratory Evidence on the Effects of Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women 

      Baldiga, Nancy R.; Coffman, Katherine Baldiga (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2018)
      Sponsorship programs have been proposed as one way to promote female advancement in competitive career fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a ...
    • Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China 

      Rithmire, Meg Elizabeth (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
      Despite common national institutions and incentives to remake urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of ...
    • Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring 

      Stanton, Christopher Thomas; Thomas, Catherine (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)
      Online markets for remote labour services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This article shows that agencies ...
    • 'Last-place Aversion': Evidence and Redistributive Implications 

      Kuziemko, Ilyana; Buell, Ryan Williams; Reich, Taly; Norton, Michael Irwin (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014)
      We present evidence from laboratory experiments showing that individuals are "last-place averse." Participants choose gambles with the potential to move them out of last place that they reject when randomly placed in other ...
    • Lazy Prices 

      Cohen, Lauren; Malloy, Christopher; NGUYEN, QUOC (Wiley, 2020-02-22)
      We explore the implications of a subtle "default" choice that firms make in their regular reporting practices, namely that firms typically repeat what they most recently reported. Using the complete history of regular ...
    • Leadership Is Associated with Lower Levels of Stress 

      Sherman, Gary D.; Lee, J. J.; Cuddy, Amy J. C.; Renshon, Jonathan; Oveis, Christopher; Gross, James J.; Lerner, Jennifer S. (2012-11-02)
      As leaders ascend to more powerful positions in their groups, they face ever-increasing demands. This has given rise to the common perception that leaders have higher stress levels than non-leaders. But if leaders also ...
    • Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery 

      KC, Diwas; Staats, Bradley R.; Gino, Francesca (INFORMS, 2013-09-03)
      Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the ...