Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
The study by Laura Alfaro, Raffaella Sadun, and colleagues develops a simple model and provides new data to examine the relationship between vertical integration and delegation of decision-making, two...
View ArticleIdentifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
This economic study by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger finds evidence of allocative inefficiency and substantial variation in comparative advantage across hospitals, with the benefits from...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
What the best product managers have in common ... Seeing opportunity in long lines ... It's not always about gender.
View ArticleWorking for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
People who worked for a company guilty of malfeasance may see their future salary curtailed, even if they are guilty of nothing, according to research by Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, and George Serafeim.
View ArticleBrokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales
Marco Di Maggio and colleagues find that brokers tend to reveal the occurrence of a fire sale to their best clients, allowing them to generate significant profits by predating on the liquidating fund....
View ArticleA Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
The Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator aims to speed up the development and delivery of cancer therapies by improving the business processes that surround them.
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
Drawing the line on personalization ... What does a company owe its workers? ... The novel drug dilemma.
View ArticleIf the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May...
Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when the number is fully explained.
View ArticleWhen Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender
Gender discrimination in a typically male workplace is not necessarily driven by misogyny, according to research by Katherine B. Coffman, Christine L. Exley, and Muriel Niederle. Rather, employers are...
View ArticleWhy You Are Unhappy at Work
Sometimes the deck is stacked against you at work. Learn more about how you can overcome toxic co-workers, paycheck blues, and a job set up for failure.
View ArticleTransaction Costs and the Duration of Contracts
When buyers transact with sellers, they select not only whom to transact with but also for how long. Alexander MacKay develops a model of optimal contract duration arising from underlying supply costs...
View ArticleFirst Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Why is productivity declining? ... Angel investmernts around the world ... How do the children of employed moms turn out?
View ArticleHow to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues designed a field study to determine whether they could persuade people to develop a healthy habit through experimental interventions. Potentially at stake: the lives of...
View ArticleDo Banks Have an Edge?
Reliance on high leverage is one distinctive component of the bank business model. This study by Juliane Begenau and Erik Stafford suggests that the aggregate United States banking sector was...
View ArticleHow 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
Teams composed of people from across expertise areas can create solutions beyond what any one agency can deliver, says Amy Edmondson. Just ask several dozen Chilean workers rescued from a mine collapse.
View ArticleCredit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy
Using data for Spain between 2003 and 2013, Laura Alfaro and colleagues examine firms’ responses to credit supply shocks during times of boom (expansion) and bust (financial crisis and recession).
View ArticleJanuary 30, 2018
Blockchain firms look for more government clients ... What the rise of populism means for business ... Who protects online consumers?
View ArticleAmerican Idle: Employees Are Wasting Way Too Much Time
Workers across the country are spending far too much time doing nothing--and it's costing their companies $100 billion. Research by Teresa Amabile and Andrew Brodsky.
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