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Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization
(INFORMS, 2016-05-06)We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, ... -
Anxiety, Advice, and the Ability to Discern: Feeling Anxious Motivates Individuals to Seek and Use Advice
(American Psychological Association, 2012)Across eight experiments, we describe the influence of anxiety on advice seeking and advice taking. We find that anxious individuals are more likely to seek and rely on advice than are those in a neutral emotional state ... -
Anxious and Egocentric: How Specific Emotions Influence Perspective Taking
(American Psychological Association, 2015)People frequently feel anxious. Although prior research has extensively studied how feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. ... -
The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors
(Oxford Journals, 2012)Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two ... -
Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
(2015-11-04)What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. ... -
Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production
(2013-04-18)We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The ... -
Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems
(Academy of Management, 2022-01)Gregory, Henfridsson, Kaganer, and Kyriakou (2020) highlight the important role of data and AI as strategic resources that platforms may use to enhance user value. However, their article overlooks a significant conceptual ... -
Assessing the Food and Drug Administration’s Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
(JMIR Publications Inc., 2020-10-26)BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, ... -
Assessing the Quality of Quality Assessment: The Role of Scheduling
(2017-06-28)Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. This paper explores how the scheduling of inspections risks introducing ... -
Asset Price Dynamics in Partially Segmented Markets
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-09)We develop a model in which capital moves quickly within an asset class but slowly between asset classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital ... -
Association of the Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program with Health Information Technology Venture Capital Funding
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2020-03)IMPORTANCE: Although the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has accelerated electronic health record (EHR) adoption since its passage, clinician satisfaction with EHRs remains low, ... -
Assortment Rotation and the Value of Concealment
(2017-03-22)Assortment rotation – the retailing practice of changing the assortment of products offered to customers – has recently been used as a competitive advantage for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. Fast-fashion ... -
Asymmetric Effects of Favorable and Unfavorable Information on Decision-making Under Ambiguity
(INFORMS, 2015-12-01)Most daily decisions involve uncertainty about outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical ... -
Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
(2012)We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest ... -
Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards
(2015-01-20)We examine how Big N auditors’ changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973–2006). We examine the influence of auditors’ lobbying incentives arising ... -
Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(Elsevier, 2014)Organizations often use non-monetary awards to incentivize performance. Awards may affect behavior through several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social ... -
Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors
(Elsevier, 2015)We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks ... -
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
(American Economic Association, 2013)Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the ... -
BATNAs in Negotiation: Common Errors and Three Kinds of "No"
(2017-01-20)The Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement ("BATNA") concept in negotiation has proved to be immensely useful. It is widely accepted that a more attractive BATNA (“walkaway option”) often increases one’s bargaining ...