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The Next Phase of Business Sustainability
(2018-01)
Business sustainability has come a long way. From the dawn of the modern environmental movement and the establishment of environmental regulations in the 1970s, it has now become a strategic concern driven by market forces. ...
Capacity Investment with Demand Learning
(2016-07)
We study a firm’s optimal strategy to adjust its capacity using demand information. The capacity adjustment is costly and often subject to managerial hurdles which sometimes make it difficult to adjust capacity multiple ...
Cognitive and Institutional Barriers to New Forms of Cooperation on Environmental Protection: Insights from Project Xl and Habitat Conservation Plans
(2001-10)
Many perceive the predominantly command-and-control structure of regulatory policy to be overly restrictive and inefficient in achieving our emerging environmental goals. In response, the U.S. government has introduced ...
Pros vs Joes: Agent Pricing Behavior in the Sharing Economy
(2016-08)
One of the major differences between markets that follow a “sharing economy” paradigm and traditional two-sided markets is that the supply side in the sharing economy often includes individual nonprofessional decision ...
The Role of Gender Diversity in Corporate Governance
(2018-12)
A number of studies show that companies with more women involved in leadership positions tend to outperform their sector in terms of return on equity, operating result, and stock price growth. A diverse board may signal ...
The Role of Problem Specification in Crowdsourcing Contests for Design Problems: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
(2018-10)
This paper studies the role of seekers' problem specification in crowdsourcing contests for design problems. Platforms hosting design contests offer detailed guidance for seekers to specify their design problems when ...
Adaptive Parametric and Nonparametric Multi-Product Pricing Via Self-Adjusting Controls
(2014-12)
We study a multi-period network revenue management (RM) problem where a seller sells multiple products made from multiple resources with finite capacity in an environment where the demand function is unknown a priori. The ...
Unbundling of Ancillary Service: How Does Price Discrimination of Main Service Matter?
(2015-09)
We consider a setting where the firm sells a main service (e.g., air travel) and an ancillary service (e.g., baggage delivery) to two types of consumers (e.g., business travelers and leisure travelers). We study how the ...
The Plight of Women in Positions of Corporate Leadership in the United States, the European Union, and Japan: Differing Laws and Cultures, Similar Issues
(2019-11)
Gender diversity in corporate governance is a highly debated issue worldwide. National campaigns such as “2020 Women on Boards” in the United States and “Women on the Board Pledge for Europe” are examples of just two ...
Bargaining in Supply Chains (Long Version)
(2015-03)
We study experimentally bargaining in a multiple-tier supply chain with horizontal competition and sequential bargaining between tiers. Our treatments vary the cost differences between firms in tiers 1 and 2. We measure ...