District of Columbia - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

United States. Along with Jiao Luo and Stephan Meier, both of Columbia Business School, Oberholzer-Gee collected data on several thousand oil and chemical spills (most of them,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

every Congressional district is the health industry. Private insurers should have a freer range of competitive options through legislation that enables them to sell across state lines in the individual and... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

Strategy at HEC Paris, and Andrea Prat, a professor of business at Columbia Business School. Why communication takes a dive The researchers analyzed millions of emails and... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

for public good is viewed with suspicion—in my view for very good reasons." Yet more than three dozen faculty and doctoral students from a variety of institutions gathered January 30 to give the idea serious consideration during the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

the ones who are the real experts, you know?" In the eventual field experiment, researchers launched two recruitment campaigns. Each targeted half of 48 randomly selected rural districts across the country.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

controlling for firm size, performance, accounting quality, location, and political contributions, among other factors. What's more, Heese learned these firms were even less likely to be convicted if they were headquartered in the View Details