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A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings (with Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal)

The NCAA college football ratings, in which the so-called national champion is determined, has been plagued by controversies the last few years. The difficulty arises because there is a need to make a complete ranking of teams even though each team has a different... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community

By: Jevin D. West, Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon and Carl T. Bergstrom
In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and countries based on author-level citation data. Using the methods described herein, we... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Measurement and Metrics; Networks; Rank and Position; Research; Motivation and Incentives
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  • May 2024
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Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nick Short and Yuan Sun
We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Investment Banks; Information Technology; Regulation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Trends
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  • October 2023
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Innovation on Wings: When Do Nonstop Flights Matter for Global Innovation?

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Do Yoon Kim and Wesley Koo
We study whether, when, and how better connectivity through nonstop flights leads to positive innovation outcomes for firms in the global context. Using unique data of all flights emanating from 5,015 airports around the globe from 2005 to 2015 and exploiting a... View Details
Keywords: Nonstop Flights; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research and Development; Air Transportation Industry
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  • March 2016
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An Analysis of Firms' Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts

By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim
We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to analyze factors underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk.... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Corporate Performance; Growth; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Sustainability; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Performance; Sales
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  • 20 Jan 2011
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Testing Coleman’s Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia

Keywords: by Mikolaj J. Piskorski & Andreea Gorbatai; Publishing
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Extending the Role of Headquarters Beyond the Firm Boundary: Entrepreneurial Alliance Innovation

By: Jaeho Kim and Andy Wu
Prior research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) characteristics identifies the impact of CHQ location and composition on the innovation outcomes of internal subsidiaries. However, given that external strategic alliances with high-tech entrepreneurial firms represent a... View Details
Keywords: Alliance; Innovation; Corporate Headquarters; Geographic Proximity; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Alliances; Joint Ventures; Innovation and Invention; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Climate Change ; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Governing and Advisory Boards Citation Find at Harvard Register to Read Related Paine, Lynn S., and Suraj Srinivasan. "How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?" Harvard Business... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Adaptation ; Competitive Advantage ; Growth and Development Strategy ; Business Model Citation Find at Harvard Register to Read Related Liao, Jianwen, and Feng Zhu. "How to Avoid the Agility Trap." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 6... View Details
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Marketing - Faculty & Research

Akiko Kanno November 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Citation Educators Related Deshpandé, Rohit, Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "Grand Seiko — The Sleeping Lion." Harvard Business School Case 525-035, November 2024. Allurion: Competing in... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships

By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih
Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Firm Performance; Public-private Partnership Funding; Translational Research; Small And Medium Enterprises; Partners and Partnerships; Public Sector; Private Sector; Performance; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention
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Finance - Faculty & Research

Financial Markets ; Growth and Development ; Economic Sectors ; Financial Services Industry Citation Read Now Related Greenwood, Robin, David S. Scharfstein, and Robert Ialenti. "The Evolution of Financial Services in the United States."... View Details
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Strategy - Faculty & Research

structured management practices to grow larger, thereby potentially raising aggregate national income. Citation Register to Read Related Scur, Daniela, Scott Ohlmacher, John Van Reenen, Morten Bennedsen, Nick Bloom, Ali Choudhary, Lucia... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Bias ; Race ; Immigration ; Public Opinion Citation Read Now Related Bai, John (Jianqui), William R. Kerr, Chi Wan, and Alptug Yorulmaz. "Everyone Steps Back? The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators When... View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

building the right team, mobilizing resources and capabilities, and making big-bet decisions. Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy ; Leadership ; Innovation Strategy ; Consumer Products Industry Citation Find at Harvard Register to... View Details
  • November 22, 2022
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Is Novel Research Worth Doing? Evidence from Peer Review at 49 Journals

By: Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors conservative ideas over novel ones. We investigate the association between novelty and the acceptance of manuscripts submitted... View Details
Keywords: Research; Journals and Magazines
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Gender Inclusivity ; Politics ; Political Backlash ; Political Culture ; Conservatism ; Gender ; Government and Politics ; Equality and Inequality ; Prejudice and Bias ; Labor Citation Read Now Related Rettl, Paula, Diane Bolet, Catherine... View Details
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Hiring Organizations

Chaac Ventures Champagne Hospitality Character Biosciences ChargeLab Charlesbank Capital Partners Checkout.com ChenMed Cherry Ventures CIM Group Cirrus Nexus Cisco Citation Capital City of Boston - Office of the Mayor City of Cambridge... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

increase the return-on-investment in their well-being programs. Keywords: Organizational Culture ; Employees ; Well-being Citation Read Now Related Croft, Jazz, Acacia Parks, and Ashley Whillans. "Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t... View Details
  • 09 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

been using Clarivate Web of Science to collect citation and reference patterns from more than 12,000 works across 15 disciplines published as of 2015, with the goal of exploring the role of geographic proximity on the evolution of ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand