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    • CSR as Reputation Insurance: Primum Non Nocere 

      Minor, Dylan Blu; Morgan, John (2011)
      We provide a theoretical framework showing how CSR activities can insure a firm against lost reputation in the face of adverse events. We offer evidence for this linkage through a case study and a multi-year analysis of ...
    • CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics 

      Lyon, Thomas P.; Delmas, Magali A.; Maxwell, John W.; Bansal, Pratima (Tima); Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Crifo, Patricia; Durand, Rodolphe; Gond, Jean-Pascal; King, Andrew; Lenox, Michael; Toffel, Michael; Vogel, David; Wijen, Frank (SAGE Publications, 2018-06-06)
      Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact ...
    • Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics 

      Boudreau, Kevin; Lakhani, Karim R (2014-01-13)
      Recent calls for greater openness in our private and public innovation systems have particularly urged for more open disclosure and granting of access to intermediate works–early results, algorithms, materials, data and ...
    • Curbing adult student attrition: Evidence from a field experiment 

      Chande, Raj; Luca, Michael; Sanders, Michael; Soon, Xian‐Zhi; Borcan, Oana; Linos, Elizabeth; Linos, Elizabeth; Kirkman, Elspeth; Robinson, Sean (2015-04-06)
      Roughly 20% of adults in the OECD lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges offer fully government subsidized adult education programs to improve these skills. Constructing a unique dataset consisting ...
    • Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices 

      Bennett, Victor Manuel; Pierce, Lamar; Snyder, Jason A.; Toffel, Michael Wayne (INFORMS, 2013)
      Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but that ...
    • Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices - Appendix 

      Bennett, Victor Manuel; Pierce, Lamar; Snyder, Jason A.; Toffel, Michael Wayne (INFORMS, 2012-10-03)
    • Cybersecurity Features of Digital Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Product Summaries 

      Stern, Ariel; Gordon, William J; Landman, Adam B; Kramer, Daniel B (BMJ, 2019-06)
      Objectives: To more clearly define the landscape of digital medical devices subject to US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, this analysis leverages publicly available regulatory documents to characterise the ...
    • 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 ...