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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 ...
Learning in a Disruptive Customer Engagement Platform: An Empirical Analysis in the Banking Industry
(2016-07)
The shift in enterprise applications to disruptive mobile platforms calls for research to better understand the mechanisms and factors behind success in these new platforms. In this paper, we empirically study the learning ...
Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage
(2014-08)
The goal of this special feature is to explore Industrial Ecology (IE) concepts and tools as the basis for competitive advantage for business. Past studies of the relationship between business and IE exist but there is ...
Distribution-free Inventory Risk Pooling in a Multi-location Newsvendor
(2019-01)
With rapidly increasing e-commerce sales, firms are leveraging the virtual pooling of online demands across customer locations in deciding the amount of inventory to be placed in each node in a fulfillment network. Such ...
Communicating About Climate Change with Corporate Leaders and Stakeholders
(2016-02)
Within the corporate sector, climate change represents an unfolding market shift; one that is driven by policy, but also by pressures from a variety of market constituents such as consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance ...
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. ...
Risky Suppliers or Risky Supply Chains? An Empirical Analysis of Sub-Tier Supply Network Structure on Firm Performance in the High-Tech Sector
(2015-12)
Past research in supply chain risk management has focused on the interactions between buyers and their immediate suppliers and/or assumed independence of risks imposed by these suppliers. However, supply network structure ...
Manipulative Games of Gifts by Corporate Executives
(2016-02)
Executives use a variety of manipulative games to maximize the value of their gifts, including backdating, spring-loading, bullet-dodging and insider information. We find that executives exploit a legal loophole to backdate ...
Certainty Equivalent Planning for Multi-Product Batch Differentiation: Analysis and Bounds
(2015-12)
We consider a multi-period planning problem faced by a firm that must coordinate the production and allocations of batches to end products for multiple markets. Motivated by a problem faced by a biopharmaceutical firm, we ...