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    • Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation 

      Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Starr, Evan; Agarwal, Rajshree (Wiley, 2020-08)
      The use of machine learning (ML) for productivity in the knowledge economy requires considerations of important biases that may arise from ML predictions. We define a new source of bias related to incompleteness in real ...
    • Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research 

      Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Allen, Ryan T.; Endres, Michael G. (Wiley, 2020-08-09)
      Supervised machine learning (ML) methods are a powerful toolkit for discovering robust patterns in quantitative data. The patterns identified by ML could be used for exploratory inductive or abductive research, or for ...
    • Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks 

      Campbell, John; Pflueger, Carolin; Viceira, Luis (University of Chicago Press, 2020-08)
      Our new model of consumption-based habit generates time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks from loglinear, homoskedastic macroeconomic dynamics. Consumers' first-order condition for the real risk-free bond generates ...
    • Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending 

      Aknin, Lara B.; Dunn, Elizabeth W.; Whillans, Ashley V.; Grant, Adam M.; Norton, Michael Irwin (Elsevier, 2013)
      When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the emotional benefits of spending money on others (prosocial spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. ...
    • Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability 

      Henderson, Rebecca M. (2015-04-06)
      Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term “sustainability”. Is it acting sustainably to ...
    • Making the Numbers? "Short Termism" & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster 

      Rahmandad, Hazhir; Repenning, Nelson P; Henderson, Rebecca M. (2014-11-06)
      Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on “managing the numbers” ―delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments―makes it difficult for firms to make ...
    • Making Transparency Transparent: The Evolution of Observation in Management Theory 

      Bernstein, Ethan S (2017)
      Observation is key to management scholarship and practice. Yet a holistic view of its role in management has been elusive, in part due to shifting terminology. The current popularity of the term “transparency” provides the ...
    • Management as a Technology? 

      Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John (2017-03-28)
      Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 ...
    • Management Practices Across Firms and Countries 

      Bloom, Nicholas; Genakos, Christos; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John (Academy of Management, 2012-02)
      For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, ...
    • Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors 

      Helper, Susan; Henderson, Rebecca M. (2014-04-24)
      General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. ...
    • Managerial Recognition as an Incentive for Innovation Platform Engagement: A Field Experiment and Interview Study at NASA 

      Gallus, Jana; Jung, Olivia; Lakhani, Karim (2019-11)
      Incentivizing employees to engage with novel innovation mechanisms and contribute to collective problem-solving can be difficult. We run a field experiment with NASA (N=11,192) to study two widely used classes of non-financial ...
    • Managers’ cultural background and disclosure attributes 

      Brochet, Francois; Miller, Gregory S.; Naranjo, Patricia; Yu, Gwen (2017-03-23)
      We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers ...
    • Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work 

      Bandiera, Oriana; Lemos, Renata; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-12-07)
      We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and ...
    • Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability 

      Brochet, Francois; Jagolinzer, Alan D.; Reidl, Edward J. (2012-08-31)
      This study examines whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered ...
    • Marginality and Problem Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search 

      Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Lakhani, Karim R (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2009)
      We examine who the winners are in science problem solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large R&D intensive ...
    • Market Competition, Earnings Management, and Persistence in Accounting Profitability Around the World 

      Healy, Paul Murray; Serafeim, Georgios; Srinivasan, Suraj; Yu, Gwen Gwen (2014-11-25)
      We examine how cross-country differences in product, capital, and labor market competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 ...
    • Market Culture: How Rules Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance 

      Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E. (American Economic Association, 2009)
      Many markets encounter difficulty maintaining a thick marketplace because they experience transactions made at dispersed times. To address such problems, many markets try to establish norms concerning when offers can be ...
    • Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure 

      Grewal, Jyothika; Riedl, Edward J.; Serafeim, Georgios (2015-09-15)
      This paper examines the equity market reaction to events associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure, which affected firms listed on EU exchanges or ...
    • Market Segmentation Trees 

      Aouad, Ali; Elmachtoub, Adam N.; Ferreira, Kristine; McNellis, Ryan (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2023-03)
      Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees ...
    • Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions: Reply to Priest (2010) 

      Roth, Alvin (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
      This note describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college ...