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- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Purpose: Does Your Company ‘Live’ It, Or Just Pay Lip Service?
- 13 May 2021
- News
Paying with Cash? Retailers Must Take Your Dollars in These States
- 11 Aug 2015
- News
Will Paying Too Much For Your Wedding Ruin Your Marriage?
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Why not rent a sewing machine to the housewife and apply the rental fee to the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2021
- News
At This Tech Company, Workers Vote on Each Other’s Pay Raises
- March 2022
- Article
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
The vast majority of the pay inequality in an organization comes from differences in pay between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities? Are employees demotivated by this inequality? To address these questions, we conducted a... View Details
Keywords: Salary; Inequality; Managers; Career Concerns; Pay Transparency; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Perception; Behavior
Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons." Journal of Political Economy 130, no. 3 (March 2022): 766–822.
- July 2024
- Article
Whether to Apply
By: Katherine B. Coffman, Manuela Collis and Leena Kulkarni
Labor market outcomes depend, in part, upon an individual’s willingness to put herself forward for different opportunities. We use a series of experiments to explore gender differences in willingness to apply for higher return, more challenging work. We find that, in... View Details
Coffman, Katherine B., Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni. "Whether to Apply." Management Science 70, no. 7 (July 2024): 4649–4669.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Xiaosheng Mu and Alexander Peysakhovich
Human information processing is often modeled as costless Bayesian inference.
However, research in psychology shows that attention is a computationally costly and potentially limited resource. We study a Bayesian individual for whom computing posterior beliefs is... View Details
Kominers, Scott Duke, Xiaosheng Mu, and Alexander Peysakhovich. "Paying (for) Attention: The Impact of Information Processing Costs on Bayesian Inference." Working Paper, February 2016.
- February 2017 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details
Keywords: Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Advertising Industry; Mining Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
Esty, Benjamin C., Daniel P. Gross, and Lauren G. Pickle. "The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity." Harvard Business School Case 717-430, February 2017. (Revised May 2022.)
- 10 Jun 2022
- News
Consumer Responses to Corporate Bankruptcy
- 06 Jul 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Do All Your Detailing Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited
- November 7, 2019
- Article
WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay
While the WeWork saga has dealt another blow to already-low public confidence in business, it should also strengthen cries for fundamental changes to a system that offers supersized compensation for undersized performance. View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Change; Compensation and Benefits; Corporate Accountability; Initial Public Offering
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "WeWork’s Saga Is a Cautionary Tale about Golden Parachutes and CEO Pay." CNN.com (November 7, 2019).
- November 2013
- Article
Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies
By: Joseph Gerakos, Joseph Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan
This paper examines how different types of interactions with U.S. markets by non-U.S. firms are associated with higher level of CEO pay, greater emphasis on incentive-based compensation, and smaller pay gap with U.S. firms. Using a sample of CEOs of UK firms and using... View Details
Keywords: CEO Compensation; International Pay; Incentives; Cross-listing; United Kingdom; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Globalization; Corporate Governance; United Kingdom; United States
Gerakos, Joseph, Joseph Piotroski, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Which U.S. Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies." Management Science 59, no. 11 (November 2013).