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Lp-Based Artificial Dependency for Probabilistic Etail Order Fulfillment
(2014-10)
We consider an online multi-item retailer with multiple fulfillment facilities and finite inventory, with the objective of minimizing the expected shipping cost of fulfilling customer orders over a finite horizon. We ...
Personal Liability of Directors and Officers in Tort: Searching for Coherence and Accountability
(2020-20)
The 21st century has been marred by corporate scandal after scandal, including financial fraud, pyramid schemes, international bribery, and decades of sexual harassment. This raises an important question regarding the role ...
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 ...
Linking Organizational and Field Level Analyses: The Diffusion of Corporate Environmental Practice
(2001-03)
This paper examines the diffusion of corporate environmental practice in the context of field level dynamics. It builds a conceptual model that makes links between (1) the complex constituency of the institutional field ...
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 ...