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Coactive Vicarious Learning: Towards a Relational Theory of Vicarious Learning in Organizations
(2014-07)
Vicarious learning – a process of individual belief and behavior change that occurs through being exposure to, and making meaning of, another’s experience – has long been recognized as a key driver of individual, team and ...
Near-Optimal Bisection Search for Nonparametric Dynamic Pricing with Inventory Constraint
(2014-10)
We consider a single-product revenue management problem with an inventory constraint and unknown, noisy, demand function. The objective of the fi rm is to dynamically adjust the prices to maximize total expected revenue. ...
Supply Function Competition in Electricity Markets with Flexible, Inflexible, and Variable Generation
(2014-04)
In this paper we study the supply function competition between power-generation firms with different levels of flexibility. Inflexible firms produce power at a constant rate over an operating horizon, while flexible firms ...
Safer Ratios, Riskier Portfolios: Banks’ Response to Government Aid
(2014-02)
We study the effect of government assistance on bank risk taking. Using hand-collected data on bank applications for government assistance under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), we investigate the effect of both ...
Organizational Sets, Populations and Fields: Evolving Board Interlocks and Environmental NGOs
(2014-04)
In 2008, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the world’s wealthiest environmental non-governmental organization (ENGO) -- with over $3 billion in assets – hired Mark Tercek, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs to be its ...
The Benefits of Retail Therapy: Making Purchase Decisions Reduces Residual Sadness
(2014-01)
People often shop when feeling sad, but whether and why shopping reduces residual (lingering) sadness remains an open question. Sadness is strongly associated with a sense that situational forces control the outcomes in ...
Bridging Physical and Financial Business Water Risk: Watervar and Waterbeta Metrics for Equity and Portfolio Risk Assessment
(2014-05)
The impact of water as a constrained resource for business operations is becoming part of the investor discourse on equity water risk. A key challenge is the absence of metrics that relate physical risk to financial risk, ...
Supervising Across Borders: The Case of Multinational Hierarchies
(2014-08)
This paper examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) selectively assign supervisory responsibilities to units in countries with varying levels of institutional quality. Arbitraging across institutional contexts is an ...
The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges They Present to Corporate Sustainability
(2014-08)
Corporate sustainability has gone “mainstream”; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet, despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this paper, we examine how corporate ...
CEO Connectedness and Corporate Frauds
(2014-06)
We find connections CEOs develop with top executives and directors through their appointment decisions heighten the risk of corporate fraud. Appointment-based CEO connectedness in executive suites and boardrooms increases ...