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Large Steps toward Small Donations: Reputational Benefits of Nominal Corporate Generosity
(2017-04)
Cause marketing campaigns often highlight two attributes: the percent-of-proceeds from each purchase to be donated, and the maximum amount the company will donate. For example, a recent campaign by Chipotle pledged to ...
Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings from the Michigan Meeting
(2017-05)
This report and the conference it summarizes are an examination of how we, as academics, practice our craft; how we work to make it more relevant to broader publics and responsive to pressing societal problems. In May 2015, ...
Mentoring in Startup Ecosystems
(2017-11)
Effective mentoring programs are very difficult to structure and execute, even with the best intentions and reasonable budget. In this report we conduct a multi-institution empirical analysis of mentoring in startup ...
Government Intervention and Arbitrage
(2017-03)
We model and document the novel notion that direct government intervention in a market may induce violations of the law of one price (LOP) in other, arbitrage-related markets. We show that the introduction of a government ...
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 ...
Making Money: Commercial Banks, Liquidity Transformation and the Payment System
(2017-12)
We consider the interaction between the roles of a bank as a facilitator of payments in the economy and as a lender. In our model, banks make loans by issuing digital claims to an entrepreneur, who then uses them to pay ...
Is Analyst Output Informative? An Intraday Study of Analyst Comments
(2017-02)
Conventional wisdom suggests that the public release of financial analyst output is informative to traders about firm value. However, empirical tests of this mechanism have encountered difficulties in isolating the release ...
The Impact of Employment Law and Practices on Business and Society: The Significance of Worker Voice
(2017-10)
This paper argues that employers should adopt practices that provide employees with opportunities to exercise voice. Time and time again, we see corporate scandals that could have been avoided if employees were encouraged ...
Shipping Consolidation with Delivery Deadline and Expedited Shipment Options
(2017-02)
Problem definition: Shipment consolidation is commonly used to take advantage of the economies of scale by avoiding some of the shipping costs. However, when pending current orders are consolidated with future orders it ...