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- June 2023
- Article
Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations
By: Ranjay Gulati and Franz Wohlgezogen
As part of institutional changes toward more responsible capitalism, firms increasingly articulate a purpose beyond simply profit as a central tenet of their governance. Management scholarship has noted the potential advantages of such purpose-focus for stakeholder...
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Keywords:
Stakeholder Management;
Moral Identity;
Mission and Purpose;
Trust;
Corporate Governance;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Gulati, Ranjay, and Franz Wohlgezogen. "Can Purpose Foster Stakeholder Trust in Corporations." Strategy Science 8, no. 2 (June 2023): 270–287.
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Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making
By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Values and Beliefs;
Personal Characteristics;
Attitudes;
Motivation and Incentives;
Family and Family Relationships;
Health Care and Treatment
Haward, Marlyse F., Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz, and Baruch Fischhoff. "Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making." Pediatrics 129, no. 5 (May 2012): 891–902.
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Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution
By: Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra
This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute resolution processes and outcomes by examining a unique dataset consisting of over 150,000 pages of documents relating to 102 business disputes. We find that the level of contractual detail...
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Keywords:
Governance Controls;
Contracts;
Rights;
Negotiation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence
Lumineau, Fabrice, and Deepak Malhotra. "Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution." Strategic Management Journal 32, no. 5 (May 2011): 532–555.
- 28 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Serving Altruism? When Unethical Actions That Benefit Others Do Not Trigger Guilt
- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
connectivity plays a role in driving value even in decisions outside the C-suite, Nagle says. Researchers can use that data to identify more precisely where this influence matters. “We’re interested in digging deeper to understand when...
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by Ben Rand
- January 15, 2019
- Article
Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?
By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index...
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Keywords:
Ownership Type;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Strength and Weakness;
Competitive Advantage
Baron, Josh. "Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?" Harvard Business Review (website) (January 15, 2019).
- Research Summary
The Economics of Enterprise IT
Why do some organizations adopt new information systems while others do not? Why do some face high costs while others do not? Professor Greenstein has been pursuing this stream of research throughout his career, analyzing the factors shaping the costs of acquiring... View Details
- May 2018
- Article
The Economics of Patient-Centered Care
By: Guy David, Philip Saynisch and Aaron Smith-McLallen
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a widely-implemented model for improving primary care, emphasizing care coordination, information technology, and process improvements. However, its treatment as an undifferentiated intervention in policy evaluation obscures...
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Keywords:
Primary Care;
Accreditation;
Patient-centered Medical Home;
Health Care and Treatment;
Economics
David, Guy, Philip Saynisch, and Aaron Smith-McLallen. "The Economics of Patient-Centered Care." Journal of Health Economics 59 (May 2018): 60–77.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
By: Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency...
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Keywords:
Politician Identity;
Infant Mortality;
Primary Education;
India;
Muslim;
Fairness;
Religion;
Government and Politics;
India
Bhalotra, Sonia, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-102, June 2013. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19173, July 2013.)
- Article
Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?
By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1)...
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Keywords:
Market Intermediation;
Search;
Two-Sided Markets;
Platform Design;
Demand and Consumers;
Motivation and Incentives;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Distribution Channels;
Business Strategy;
Retail Industry
Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?" RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 337–362. (2012 Winner for Best Paper on Competition Economics, Association of Competition Economics.)
- 2008
- Text Book
Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases
By: Robert D. Austin, Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule
The 8th edition of Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases is written for students and managers who desire an overview of contemporary information systems technology management. This new edition examines how information...
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Austin, Robert D., Lynda M. Applegate, and Deborah Soule. Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases. 8th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Company, 1991–1999 Samuel M. ZemurrayUnited Fruit Company, 1938–1951 Vincent C. ZieglerGillette Company, 1965–1973 Adolph ZukorParamount Pictures, 1916–1966 Load More THE 20th CENTURY ZEITGEIST Six contextual factors deeply influenced the...
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- 29 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Eva Ascarza
Professor Ascarza’s research primarily focuses on providing researchers and marketers a better understanding of how to manage customer retention so as to reduce churn and increase firm’s profitability. She addresses these issues by building empirical models of customer...
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- 2018
- Chapter
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S.
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an incoherent attack on the neoclassical economic paradigm. This essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the...
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Keywords:
Economics;
History;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S." In New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 349–374. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- spring 1994
- Article
Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances
By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria
How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose...
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Keywords:
Management Style;
Partners and Partnerships;
Joint Ventures;
Management Practices and Processes;
Alliances;
Trust;
Game Theory
Gulati, Ranjay, Tarun Khanna, and Nitin Nohria. "Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances." MIT Sloan Management Review 35, no. 3 (spring 1994): 61–69.
- 2014
- Article
The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest
By: Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short interest, we document that the amount of capital devoted to value...
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Hanson, Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam. "The Growth and Limits of Arbitrage: Evidence from Short Interest." Review of Financial Studies 27, no. 4 (April 2014): 1238–1286. (Winner of the RFS Rising Scholar Prize 2014. Internet Appendix Here.)
- September 2013
- Article
Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials
By: Arnold K. Ho, Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Mahzarin R. Banaji
Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to both of their parent groups, but instead are seen as belonging more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the...
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Keywords:
Hypodescent;
Social Dominance Orientation;
Intergroup Threat;
Hierarchy Maintenance;
Equality and Inequality;
Race;
Rank and Position;
Attitudes;
Identity
Ho, Arnold K., Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Mahzarin R. Banaji. "Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 49, no. 5 (September 2013): 940–943.
- 2009
- Working Paper
A Decision-making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future
By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman
Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as well as a burgeoning interest in the field for both academics and practitioners. Researchers...
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Tsay, Chia-Jung, and Max H. Bazerman. "A Decision-making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-002, July 2009.
- December 2009
- Article
Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions
By: Yuhai Xuan
This article investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that, after CEO turnover, divisions not previously affiliated with the new CEO receive significantly more capital...
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Capital Budgeting;
Financial Management;
Managerial Roles;
Resource Allocation
Xuan, Yuhai. "Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 12 (December 2009): 4919–4948. (Online Appendix.)