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  • 2017
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Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals

By: Joshua W. Buckholtz, Uma R. Karmarkar, Shengxuan Ye, Grace M. Brennan and Arielle Baskin-Sommers
Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity rather than risk. While risk and... View Details
Keywords: Ambiguity; Neuroscience; Neuroeconomics; Choice; Psychology; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Health Disorders
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Buckholtz, Joshua W., Uma R. Karmarkar, Shengxuan Ye, Grace M. Brennan, and Arielle Baskin-Sommers. "Blunted Ambiguity Aversion During Cost-Benefit Decisions in Antisocial Individuals." Art. 2030. Scientific Reports 7 (2017).

    Building a Culture of Experimentation

    Why don’t organizations test more? After examining this question for several years, I can tell you that a central reason is culture. As companies try to scale up their experimentation capacity, they often find that the obstacles are not tools and technology but... View Details

    • 2008
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    The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis

    By: Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael and Alvin J. Silk
    The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study investigates the extent of such outsourcing and examines inter-industry variation in the use of... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Cost; Analytics and Data Science; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Service Operations; Creativity; Perception; Vertical Integration; Information Technology; Advertising Industry; United States
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    Horsky, Sharon, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-007, July 2008.
    • April 2022
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    The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates' Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits

    By: Dan Wang, Emily Cox Pahnke and Rory M. McDonald
    Past research has produced contradictory insights into how prior collaboration between organizations—their relational embeddedness—impacts collective collaborative performance. We theorize that the effect of relational embeddedness on collaborative success is... View Details
    Keywords: Inter-organizational Networks; Collaboration; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Organizations; Performance; Venture Capital
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    Wang, Dan, Emily Cox Pahnke, and Rory M. McDonald. "The Past Is Prologue? Venture-Capital Syndicates' Collaborative Experience and Start-Up Exits." Academy of Management Journal 65, no. 2 (April 2022): 371–402.

      Business of Platforms

      The Business of Platforms is an in-depth look at platform strategy and digital innovation.  In this book, we explore how a small number of companies have come to exert extraordinary influence over every dimension of our personal, professional and political... View Details

      • June 2016
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      Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

      By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds
      Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Employees; Health Care and Treatment
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      Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds. "Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics." Medical Care 54, no. 6 (June 2016): 578–583.
      • 15 Dec 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      John-Paul Ferguson, Stanford Graduate School of Business

      • 2015
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      Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement

      By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
      Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical... View Details
      Keywords: Online Word Of Mouth; Online Communities; Viral Marketing; Online Product Reviews; Quality; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Reference Programs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Digital Marketing; Analytics and Data Science
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      Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence

      By: Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang and Ali Yurukoglu
      Existing theories of media competition imply that advertisers will pay a lower price in equilibrium to reach consumers who multi-home across competing outlets. We generalize and extend this theoretical result and test it using data from television and social media... View Details
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      Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang, and Ali Yurukoglu. "Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30278, July 2022.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
      Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
      Keywords: E-commerce; Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Consumer Behavior; Price; Search Technology
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      Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira. "The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-080, January 2019.
      • 2012
      • Article

      The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis

      By: Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael and Alvin J. Silk
      This study investigates the extent to which U.S. advertisers use in-house rather than independent advertising agencies and examines inter-industry variation in such internalization. Contrary to the widely held impression that use of an in-house advertising agency is... View Details
      Keywords: Advertisers; In-house Advertising; Inter-industry Variation; Internalization; Scale Economies; Transaction Costs; Vertical Integration; Advertising Costs; Creative Industries; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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      Horsky, Sharon, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk. "The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis." Review of Marketing Science 10, no. 1 (2012).
      • November 2009 (Revised July 2011)
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      International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)

      By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
      This case explores company strategy, business-government relations, and collective action challenges associated with international and domestic lobbying regarding regulation of the chemical industry. In the fall of 2006, a five-year legislative process for a major new... View Details
      Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe
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      Daemmrich, Arthur A. "International Lobbying and The Dow Chemical Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-027, November 2009. (Revised July 2011.)
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      Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?

      By: Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly and Erick Gong
      We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Growth and Development; Adoption; Business Strategy; Cost; Cost Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Culture; Technology Industry
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      Comin, Diego A., Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong. "Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2, no. 3 (July 2010): 65–97.
      • December 2015
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      On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends

      By: Maurice H. Yearwood, Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner and Aleksandr Spectre
      Having international social ties carries many potential advantages, including access to novel ideas and greater commercial opportunities. Yet little is known about who forms more international friendships. Here, we propose social class plays a key role in determining... View Details
      Keywords: Friendships; Social Class; Internationalism; Wealth; Relationships; Globalization
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      Yearwood, Maurice H., Amy Cuddy, Nishtha Lambaa, Wu Youyoua, Ilmo van der Lowe, Paul K. Piff, Charles Gronin, Pete Fleming, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Dacher Keltner, and Aleksandr Spectre. "On Wealth and the Diversity of Friendships: High Social Class People around the World Have Fewer International Friends." Personality and Individual Differences 87 (December 2015): 224–229.
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

      By: Kristina S. McElheran
      This paper explores the relationship between market position and business process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Business Processes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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      McElheran, Kristina S. "Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-104, June 2010. (Revised April 2011, October 2012.)

        The Transparency Paradox

        2013 Winner of Academy of Management Awards for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior and Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory

        Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second... View Details

        • 19 Mar 2014
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms’ and Their Analysts’ Research Activities

        Keywords: by David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg & Paul M. Healy; Financial Services
        • August 2023
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        Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

        By: Tom Nicholas
        The influential Whitehall studies found that top-ranking civil servants in Britain experienced lower mortality than civil servants below them in the organizational hierarchy due to differential exposure to workplace stress. I test for a Whitehall effect in the United... View Details
        Keywords: Mortality; Status; Working Conditions; Rank and Position; Welfare; Well-being; Health
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        Nicholas, Tom. "Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?" Economic History Review 76, no. 3 (August 2023): 1191–1230.
        • December 2019
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        The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

        By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
        Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
        Keywords: Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Strategy; Price; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
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        Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira. "The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 56, no. 6 (December 2019): 944–959.
        • 2011
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        Incentive Compensation and the Likelihood of Termination: Theory and Evidence from Real Estate Organizations

        By: Christopher Parsons, G. Hallman and J. Hartzell
        We analyze two managerial compensation incentive devices: the threat of termination and pay for performance. We first develop a simple model predicting that these devices are substitutes: when termination incentives are low, optimal contracts provide stronger... View Details
        Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Real Estate Industry
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        Parsons, Christopher, G. Hallman, and J. Hartzell. "Incentive Compensation and the Likelihood of Termination: Theory and Evidence from Real Estate Organizations." Real Estate Economics 39, no. 3 (Fall 2011): 507–546.
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