Lazy Prices
The most comprehensive information windows that firms provide to the markets—in the form of their mandated annual and quarterly filings—have changed dramatically over time, becoming significantly...
View ArticleReverse the Curse of the Top-5
Scholars and those who evaluate them for promotion can overweight publications ranked in a discipline’s five top journals. This paper explains the origins of journal rankings, the errors and...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
A promising revenue model for US health care ... Peer pressure in credit policies ... Pro hockey team gets philanthropic.
View ArticleDemand Estimation in Models of Imperfect Competition
The study shows how knowledge about firm behavior can be modeled to better predict demand. Research by Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller
View ArticleMake Your Employees Feel Psychologically Safe
To do their best work, people need to feel secure and safe in their workplace. In a new book, Amy C. Edmondson details how companies can develop psychological safety.
View ArticleOn Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
Target is one big-brand retailer that seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape. What's its secret? Srikant Datar discusses the company's rigorous focus on data.
View ArticleWhat’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Addressing climate change is a massive undertaking for global society, involving local, national, and multinational entities. James Heskett asks how such an effort should be managed from an...
View ArticleHow Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
There is a connection between public sentiment about a company and how the market rewards its corporate social performance, according to George Serafeim.
View ArticleWork from Anywhere or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the...
Managers often ask whether worker productivity rises or falls with work-from-anywhere (WFA) policies. This study of a real firm presents robust econometric evidence that WFA regimes can have positive...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
Work-from-anywhere policies work—sometimes ... Hello? Who’s listening to earnings calls? ... The risk of doing business overseas.
View ArticleThe Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
Barriers to the diffusion of salary information have implications for a wide range of labor market phenomena. This study of employees of a real organization shows that individuals significantly...
View ArticleWhy Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
If you want to get your messages through to employees, be ready to confess your your own management shortcomings, counsels Alison Wood Brooks.
View ArticleOral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets
Oral history is a valuable resource to explore how businesses developed and functioned in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, regions with a growing share of global economic activity and the majority of...
View ArticlePlatform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
Since the early 2000s, online betting exchanges have had a new relationship with customers relative to traditional bookmakers, providing a platform to match individuals willing to lay and back the same...
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Platforms compete in UK betting industry ... Oral history sheds light on corruption ... Startup considers risks vs. rewards of new technology.
View ArticleFree Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
Global free trade is not the natural order of things, so it needs to be carefully tended to and maintained. Sophus Reinert and Dante Roscini discuss trade over time and what history teaches.
View ArticleWomen Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
Women caught in misconduct were 20 percent more likely to be fired and 30 percent less likely to find new employment in the financial services industry, reports new research by Mark Egan and colleagues.
View ArticleNew Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
The Orphan Drug Act impacts product development ... Go team! How team learning spurs firm success ... The rise of OYO Rooms in India.
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