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- October 2006
- Article
Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation
By: Juan Alcacer
There has been a recent revival of interest in the geographic component of firm strategy. Recent research suggests that two opposing forces—competition costs and agglomeration benefits—determine whether firms collocate in a given geographic market. Unexplored is (1)... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Sales; Research and Development; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Markets; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Telecommunications Industry
Alcacer, Juan. "Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation." Management Science 52, no. 10 (October 2006): 1457–1471.
- Article
Sole-Sourcing Versus Competitive Bidding: U.S. Government Agencies' Procedural Choices for Mainframe Computer Procurement
By: Shane Greenstein
Greenstein, Shane. "Sole-Sourcing Versus Competitive Bidding: U.S. Government Agencies' Procedural Choices for Mainframe Computer Procurement." Journal of Industrial Economics 43, no. 2 (June 1995): 125–140.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Production Cost Advantage
By: David F. Drake
Emissions regulation is a policy mechanism intended to address the threat of climate change. However, the stringency of emissions regulation varies across regions, raising concerns over carbon leakage—an outcome where stringent regulation in one region shifts... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Competition; Pollutants; Taxation; Environmental Sustainability; Globalized Markets and Industries
Drake, David F. "Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice and Foreign Production Cost Advantage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-021, August 2012. (Revised August 2017. Forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.)
- July 2017
- Article
The Impact of 'Display-Set' Options on Decision-Making
By: Uma R. Karmarkar
The way a choice set is constructed can have a significant influence on how individuals perceive and evaluate their options and make decisions between them. Here, I examine whether a “display set” of visible but unavailable options can exert these same types of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making Process; Heuristics; Similarity; Categorization; Marketing Insight; Marketing; Choice; Choice Architecture; Choice Sets; Display; Retail; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Decision Making; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Karmarkar, Uma R. "The Impact of 'Display-Set' Options on Decision-Making." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 30, no. 3 (July 2017): 744–753.
- January 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
The Choice to Cofound and Initial Control and Ownership Splits in Startups
By: Stig Leschly
Leschly, Stig. "The Choice to Cofound and Initial Control and Ownership Splits in Startups." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-095, January 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
- 1992
- Other Unpublished Work
By Choice or By Chance? Tracking the Values in Massachusetts' Public Spending
By: Dutch Leonard
- 07 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
- September 2004
- Article
Too Much of A Good Thing? The Role of Choice in Negotiation"
By: Michael Wheeler
Wheeler, Michael. Too Much of A Good Thing? The Role of Choice in Negotiation"." Negotiation 7, no. 9 (September 2004).
- 2006
- Article
Empowerment through Choice? A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Choice in Organizations
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and S Iyengar
Chua, Roy Y.J., and S Iyengar. "Empowerment through Choice? A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Choice in Organizations." Research in Organizational Behavior 27 (2006): 41–79.
- July 2005
- Article
Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality in Choice Behavior: The Impact of Self-Categorization
By: S. M. Garcia, A. Tor, M. Bazerman and D. T. Miller
Garcia, S. M., A. Tor, M. Bazerman, and D. T. Miller. "Profit Maximization versus Disadvantageous Inequality in Choice Behavior: The Impact of Self-Categorization." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 18, no. 3 (July 2005): 187–198.
- Article
When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?
By: Hanna Halaburda and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions
Halaburda, Hanna, and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. "When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?" Antitrust Chronicle 7, no. 2 (Summer 2010).
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Split Decisions: How Social and Economic Choices Affect the Stability of Founding Teams
By: Matt Marx and Noam Wasserman
- 2001
- Chapter
Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices
By: Shane Greenstein
Greenstein, Shane. "Commercialization of the Internet: The Interaction of Public Policy and Private Choices." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 151–186. MIT Press, 2001.
- 27 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Effect of Payment Choices on Online Retail: Evidence from the 2016 Indian Demonetization
- 2008
- Working Paper
Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice
By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee of a 401(k) plan. This affords the plan sponsor potential... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Conflict of Interests; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, and Breno Schmidt. "Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-054, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association 2006. Winner of the Society of Quantitative Analysts Award, Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, Western Finance Association 2007.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James Paron and Natasha Sarin
How are households exposed to interest-rate risk? When rates fall, households face lower future expected returns but those holding long-term assets—disproportionately the wealthy and middle-aged—experience capital gains. We study the hedging demand for long-term assets... View Details
Keywords: Portfolio Choice; Social Security; Interest Rates; Investment Portfolio; Equality and Inequality; Welfare
Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, James Paron, and Natasha Sarin. "Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios." Working Paper, October 2023. (Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review.)
- March 2021
- Article
Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Home-delivered prescriptions have no delivery charge and lower copayments than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home... View Details
Keywords: Active Choice; Defaults; Implicit Defaults; Incentives; Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Motivation and Incentives
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 163 (March 2021): 6–16.
- 3 Aug 2007 - 8 Aug 2007
- Conference Presentation
Strong leaders empower less? The curvilinear effects of empowerment through choice on leadership perceptions
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and S. S. Iyengar
- October 1994
- Article
When Worlds Collide: The Implications of Panel Data-Based Choice Models for Consumer Behavior
By: R. S. Winer, R.E. Bucklin, J. A. Deighton, J. Erdem, P.S. Fader, J.J. Inman, H. Katahira, Katherine N. Lemon and A. Mitchell
Winer, R. S., R.E. Bucklin, J. A. Deighton, J. Erdem, P.S. Fader, J.J. Inman, H. Katahira, Katherine N. Lemon, and A. Mitchell. "When Worlds Collide: The Implications of Panel Data-Based Choice Models for Consumer Behavior." Marketing Letters 5, no. 4 (October 1994).
- November 2019
- Article
When and Why Defaults Influence Decisions: A Meta-analysis of Default Effects
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Shannon Duncan, Elke U. Weber and Eric J. Johnson
When people make decisions with a pre-selected choice option—a “default”—they are more likely to select that option. Because defaults are easy to implement, they constitute one of the most widely employed tools in the choice architecture toolbox. However, to decide... View Details
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Shannon Duncan, Elke U. Weber, and Eric J. Johnson. "When and Why Defaults Influence Decisions: A Meta-analysis of Default Effects." Behavioural Public Policy 3, no. 2 (November 2019): 159–186.