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Examining Interdisciplinary Sustainability Institutes at Major Research Universities: Innovations in Cross-Campus and Cross-Disciplinary Models.
(2017-06)
This is a study of the distinctive characteristics, activities, challenges and opportunities of a specific type of sustainability institute, one that spans the many disciplines of the University and, to do so, reports to ...
Board to Death: How Busy Directors Could Cause the Next Financial Crisis
(2017-07)
This article argues that the directors of the United States’ largest financial institutions are too busy to execute their governance roles effectively. Most financial institution directors serve on the board of at least ...
U.S. Congressional Committees and Corporate Financial Misconduct
(2017-05)
We document that firms with powerful political representation on the two U.S. congressional committees that oversee the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are less likely to face regulatory enforcement against corporate ...
Does Corporate Social Responsibility Benefit Society?
(2017-02)
In short, it depends on the ownership type. We construct an event-based outcome measure of firm-level environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact for public and private firms globally from 2007 to 2015 using data ...
Modeling and Measuring Scale Attraction Effects: An Application to Charitable Donations
(2017-07)
Charities seeking donations typically employ an “appeals scale,” a roster of suggested amounts presented to potential donors, along with an “Other” category. Yet little is known about how the amounts comprising appeals ...
Locked in? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers
(2017-01)
We examine how the enforceability of covenants not to compete (CNCs) affects employee mobility and wages of high-tech workers. We expect CNC enforceability to lengthen job spells and constrain mobility, but its impact on ...
The Value of Measuring Customer Satisfaction
(2017-01)
A growing number of service firms now collect customer satisfaction ratings, along with objective service performance measures, for each service transaction. However, little is known about whether these two types of data ...
Barriers to Entry and Competitive Behavior: Evidence from Reforms of Cable Franchising Regulations
(2017-01)
Between 2005 and 2008, 19 of the 50 states of the U.S. reformed the franchising process for cable television, significantly easing entry into local markets. Using a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the ...
Competition-Based Dynamic Pricing in Online Retailing: A Methodology Validated with Field Experiments
(2017-01)
A retailer following a competition-based dynamic pricing strategy tracks competitors' price changes and then must answer the following questions: (1) Should we respond? (2) If so, respond to whom? (3) How much of a response? ...
Welfare Implications of Congestion Pricing: Evidence from SFpark
(2017-05)
Congestion pricing offers an appealing solution to urban parking problems. Charging varying rates across time and space as a function of congestion levels may shift demand and improve allocation of limited resources. It ...