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Climate Science as Culture War
(2012-06)
The public debate around climate change is no longer about carbon dioxide and climate models. It is about values, culture, worldviews, and ideology. And the greater the efforts to present sophisticated data on climate ...
An Exploration of the Micro-Level Impacts of Shanzhai (Copycat) Products on the Originals in China
(2018-02)
Shanzhai (copycat), a product imitation strategy that is ubiquitous in many emerging economies, affects firms offering the original products. This phenomenon raises an important strategic question that we address using lab ...
Designing Incentives in Startup Teams: Form and Timing of Equity Contracting
(2017-06)
Entrepreneurial teams assign equity positions in their startups using a term sheet that details equity splits and conditions for being granted those splits. It is conventional wisdom in the entrepreneurial press that equal ...
Bill McKibben’s Influence on U.S. Climate Change Discourse: Shifting Field-level Debates Through Radical Flank Effects
(2017-09)
This paper examines the influence of radical flank actors in shifting field-level debates by increasing the legitimacy of pre-existing but peripheral issues. Using network text analysis, we apply this conceptual model to ...
Real-Time Dynamic Pricing for Revenue Management with Reusable Resources and Deterministic Service Time Requirements
(2016-07)
We consider the setting of a firm that sells a finite amount of resources to price-sensitive customers who arrive randomly over time according to a specified non-stationary rate. Each customer requires a service that consumes ...
Hybrid Organizations: The Next Chapter in Sustainable Business
(2011-10)
In this article, we describe how hybrid organizations are developing business models that are competitive and create positive social and environmental change. We discuss the distinctive characteristics of the hybrid business ...
Pricing of Conditional Upgrades in the Presence of Strategic Consumers
(2015-05)
In this paper, we study a conditional upgrade strategy that has recently become common in the travel industry. After a consumer makes a reservation for a product (e.g., a hotel room), she is asked whether she would like ...
The Link between Social Movements and Corporate Social Initiatives: Towards a Multi-Level Theory
(2016-02)
This article offers a first step towards a multi-level theory linking social movements to corporate social initiatives. In particular, building on the premise that social movements reflect ideologies that direct behavior ...
On (Re-Scaled) Multi-Attempt Approximation of Customer Choice Model and its Application to Assortment Optimization
(2016-06)
Motivated by the classic exogenous demand model and the recently developed Markov chain model, we propose a new approximation to the general customer choice model based on random utility called multi-attempt model, in which ...
Shipping Consolidation with Delivery Deadline and Expedited Shipment Options
(2017-02)
Problem definition: Shipment consolidation is commonly used to take advantage of the economies of scale by avoiding some of the shipping costs. However, when pending current orders are consolidated with future orders it ...