Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Issue Date
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Jumping the Gun: Imperfections and Institutions Related to the Timing of Market Transactions
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Rents, Competition, and Corruption
(American Economic Association, 1999) -
Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams
(1999-06)This paper presents a model of team learning and tests it in a multimethod field study. It introduces the construct of team psychological safety-a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal ... -
Changes in the Work Environment for Creativity During Downsizing
(Academy of Management, 1999-12-01)This study examined the work environment for creativity at a large high-technology firm before, during, and after a major downsizing. Creativity and most creativity-supporting aspects of the perceived work environment ... -
Preferences over Inflation and Unemployment: Evidence from Surveys of Happiness
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Situated Knowledge and Learning in Dispersed Teams
(Wiley, 2002-09)This qualitative field study explores how geographically dispersed teams learn and accomplish challenging work by drawing on knowledge situated in the multiple physical locales they span. We propose the construct of situated ... -
Capture by Threat
(University of Chicago Press, 2003)We analyze a simple stochastic environment in which policy makers can be threatened by "nasty" interest groups. In the absence of these groups, the policy maker's desire for reelection guarantees that good policies are ... -
Disclosure Practices of Foreign Companies Interacting with U.S. Markets
(2004)We analyze the disclosure practices of companies as a function of their interaction with the U.S. markets for a group of 794 firms from 24 countries in Asia-Pacific and Europe. Our analysis uses the Transparency and ... -
Dynamic Scoring: A Back-of-the-Envelope Guide
(2005)This paper uses the neoclassical growth model to examine the extent to which a tax cut pays for itself through higher economic growth. The model yields simple expressions for the steady-state feedback effect of a tax cut. ... -
Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members
(2005)I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. ... -
Constraints and triggers: Situational mechanics of gender in negotiation.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2005)The authors propose two categories of situational moderators of gender in negotiation: situational ambiguity and gender triggers. Reducing the degree of situational ambiguity constrains the influence of gender on negotiation. ... -
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
(2007)Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This paper shows that the standard Utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis answers this question in the ... -
The Effect of Dividends on Consumption
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Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings
(2008)In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of ... -
"Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations."
(Academy of Management, 2008)Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature ... -
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
(University of Chicago Press, 2008) -
Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game
(Wiley, 2008-10)We propose taking a two-level-game (Putnam 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with household members. In order to ... -
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
(Elsevier, 2009)When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine ... -
Marginality and Problem Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search
(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 ...