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- January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Rumo: Infrastructure for a Healthier Economy
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Mariana Cal, Ruth Costas and Natalie Kindred
Brazilian logistics company Rumo operated 13,500 km in railway networks, port terminals, and inland transshipment terminals, connecting major Brazilian ports to the agriculture hubs of Mato Grosso and São Paulo state. Controlled by Cosan, Brazil's leading sugar and...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Customer Relationship Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Logistics;
Rail Transportation;
Value Creation;
Rail Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Brazil
Reinhardt, Forest L., Mariana Cal, Ruth Costas, and Natalie Kindred. "Rumo: Infrastructure for a Healthier Economy." Harvard Business School Case 720-008, January 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- January 2020
- Case
The June Oven
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Christian Godwin
The June Oven was a smart oven which was capable of identifying food and cooking it accordingly. This type of smart oven represented the next step in the long history of oven and stove development. Due to the widespread use of traditional ovens, the market for the June...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Trends;
Customers;
Design;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation and Invention;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Demand and Consumers;
Distribution;
Product Development;
Sales;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Applications and Software;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Christian Godwin. "The June Oven." Harvard Business School Case 320-067, January 2020.
- January 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
What is the Purpose of the Corporation?
By: Rebecca Henderson, Nien-hê Hsieh and Erik Snowberg
Henderson, Rebecca, Nien-hê Hsieh, and Erik Snowberg. "What is the Purpose of the Corporation?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 320-070, January 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
- Winter 2020
- Article
'Tone at the Top' and the Communication of Corporate Values: Lost in Translation?
By: Alfredo Contreras, Aiyesha Dey and Claire Hill
Contreras, Alfredo, Aiyesha Dey, and Claire Hill. "'Tone at the Top' and the Communication of Corporate Values: Lost in Translation?" Seattle University Law Review 43, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 497–524.
- August 2021
- Article
(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement
By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman
In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Perspective;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Ergane, Seray, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement." Organization Studies 42, no. 8 (August 2021): 1319–1335.
- 2020
- Talk
[Invited Presentation]
- 2020
- Talk
[Invited Presentation]
- 2020
- Talk
[Invited Presentation]
- Winter 2020
- Article
A Noble Purpose Alone Won't Transform Your Company: Leadership Behaviors That Nurture Interpersonal Collaboration Are the True Drivers of Change
By: Robert Cross, Amy C. Edmondson and Wendy Murphy
Cross, Robert, Amy C. Edmondson, and Wendy Murphy. "A Noble Purpose Alone Won't Transform Your Company: Leadership Behaviors That Nurture Interpersonal Collaboration Are the True Drivers of Change." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 2 (Winter 2020).
- 2020
- Conference Presentation
A Performance-optimized Limb Detection Model Selectively Predicts Behavioral Responses Based on Movement Similarity
By: X. Zhao, J. De Freitas, L. Tarhan and G. A. Alvarez
- Article
A Theories-in-Use Approach to Building Marketing Theory
By: G. Zaltman, Valarie A. Zeithaml, Bernard Jaworski, Ajay K. Kohli, Kapil R. Tuli and Wolfgang Ulaga
This article’s objective is to inspire and provide guidance on the development of marketing knowledge based on the theories-in-use (TIU) approach. The authors begin with a description of the TIU approach and compare it with other inductive and deductive research...
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Keywords:
Building Theory;
Grounded Theory;
Theories-in-use;
Theory Construction;
Theory Development;
Marketing;
Knowledge;
Theory
Zaltman, G., Valarie A. Zeithaml, Bernard Jaworski, Ajay K. Kohli, Kapil R. Tuli, and Wolfgang Ulaga. "A Theories-in-Use Approach to Building Marketing Theory." Journal of Marketing 84, no. 1 (January 2020): 32–51.
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Beyond Emotional Similarity: The Role of Situation-specific Motives
By: Amit Goldenberg, David Garcia, Eran Halperin, Jamil Zaki, Danyang Kong, Golijeh Golarai and James J. Gross
It is well established that people often express emotions that are similar to those of other group members. However, people do not always express emotions that are similar to other group members, and the factors that determine when similarity occurs are not yet clear....
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Keywords:
Emotion Contagion;
Emotional Influence;
Motivation;
Group Dynamics;
Emotions;
Situation or Environment;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior
Goldenberg, Amit, David Garcia, Eran Halperin, Jamil Zaki, Danyang Kong, Golijeh Golarai, and James J. Gross. "Beyond Emotional Similarity: The Role of Situation-specific Motives." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 149, no. 1 (January 2020): 138–159.
- 2020
- Case
Brightline: Targeting a Successful Future with High Speed Rail
High-speed rail (HSR) is a high-performance transportation technology that is time competitive with airplanes and automobiles, and is an environmentally preferable alternative due to its low carbon dioxide emissions. Brightline is a Florida HSR system in Phase II of...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "Brightline: Targeting a Successful Future with High Speed Rail." William Davidson Institute Case 2-982-867, 2020.
- 2020
- Book
Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives
By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire from the nineteenth century until the present. It places the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative...
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Keywords:
Capitalism;
Corruption;
Business History;
Ethics;
Economic Systems;
Crime and Corruption;
Middle East;
Central Asia;
Turkey
Colpan, Asli M., and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Business, Ethics and Institutions: The Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- January 2020
- Article
Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay
By: Kevin J. Murphy and Tatiana Sandino
We provide fresh evidence regarding the relation between compensation consultants and CEO pay. First, firms that employ consultants have higher-paid CEOs—this result is robust to firm fixed effects and matching on economic and governance variables. Second, while this...
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Keywords:
Consultants;
Benchmarking;
Incentive Pay;
Executive Compensation;
Complexity;
Motivation and Incentives;
Governance
Murphy, Kevin J., and Tatiana Sandino. "Compensation Consultants and the Level, Composition, and Complexity of CEO Pay." Accounting Review 95, no. 1 (January 2020): 311–341.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing
By: Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley Larsen and Erik Brynjolfsson
We study the effects of occupational licensing on consumer choices and market outcomes in a large online platform for residential home services. We exploit exogenous variation in the time at which licenses are displayed on the platform to identify the causal effects of...
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Keywords:
Occupational Licensing;
Consumer Protection;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Consumer Behavior;
Decision Making;
Customer Satisfaction
Farronato, Chiara, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley Larsen, and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26601, January 2020.
- Article
Detecting Adversarial Attacks via Subset Scanning of Autoencoder Activations and Reconstruction Error
By: Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Victor Akinwande, William Ogallo, Komminist Weldemariam, Srihari Sridharan and Edward McFowland III
Reliably detecting attacks in a given set of inputs is of high practical relevance because of the vulnerability of neural networks to adversarial examples. These altered inputs create a security risk in applications with real-world consequences, such as self-driving...
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Keywords:
Autoencoder Networks;
Pattern Detection;
Subset Scanning;
Computer Vision;
Statistical Methods And Machine Learning;
Machine Learning;
Deep Learning;
Data Mining;
Big Data;
Large-scale Systems;
Mathematical Methods;
Analytics and Data Science
Cintas, Celia, Skyler Speakman, Victor Akinwande, William Ogallo, Komminist Weldemariam, Srihari Sridharan, and Edward McFowland III. "Detecting Adversarial Attacks via Subset Scanning of Autoencoder Activations and Reconstruction Error." Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 29th (2020).
- 2020
- Chapter
El problema de la productividad [The Productivity Problem]
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The weak performance of the Latin American region in terms of the growth of its GDP is largely due to its low productivity growth. In fact, the region's main problem has been its lack of efficiency in combining capital and labor to produce. In this chapter, we...
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Keywords:
GDP Growth;
Productivity Growth;
Efficiency;
Labor;
Capital;
Growth and Development;
Latin America
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "El problema de la productividad [The Productivity Problem]." Chap. 3 in El desafío del desarrollo en América Latina. Políticas para una región más productiva, integrada e inclusiva [The Challenge of Development in Latin America: Policies for a More Productive, Integrated and Inclusive Region], 85–123. Caracas, Venezuela: CAF – Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina, 2020, Spanish ed.
- 2020
- Chapter
El problemo de la productividad
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "El problemo de la productividad." In El desafío del desarrollo en América Latina: Políticas para una región más productiva, integrada e inclusiva, edited by Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF). Caracas: Development Bank of Latin America, 2020.
- 2020
- Article
Fast Exact Matrix Completion: A Unified Optimization Framework for Matrix Completion
By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
We formulate the problem of matrix completion with and without side information as a non-convex optimization problem. We design fastImpute based on non-convex gradient descent and show it converges to a global minimum that is guaranteed to recover closely the...
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Keywords:
Mathematical Methods
Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Fast Exact Matrix Completion: A Unified Optimization Framework for Matrix Completion." Journal of Machine Learning Research 21, no. 1 (2020).