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Jillian has an interest in understanding the effect of high worker autonomy and uncertainty on operational metrics. Her research attempts to empirically explore the relationship between efficiency, resource utilization, and quality in hospital settings.... View Details

  • 2022
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline M. Elkins
Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation’s cultural superiority, but what legacy did... View Details
Keywords: Imperialism; Violence; Colonialism; History; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Race; Policy; United Kingdom
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An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation

The purpose of this research is to detect the presence of sophisticated economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of... View Details
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Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

    National Customer Orientation: An Empirical Test across 112 Countries

    Customer orientation is a central tenet of marketing. However, less is known about how customer orientation varies across countries and time.  Mintz, Currim, and Deshpandé (Eur. J. Mark., 56: 1014–1041, 2022) propose a country-level construct, national customer... View Details
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    The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

    • 20 Sep 2017
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    Lessons from Yelp’s Empirical Approach to Diversity

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    My research examines approaches to improving the performance of our health care delivery system with a primary focus on health information technology. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of my program, my dissertation draws upon theories and insights from... View Details

    • 2025
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    An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

    By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
    This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
    Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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    • December 2011
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    Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, David Dranove, Frank Limbrock and Fiona Scott Morton
    We compare four datasets that researchers might use to study competition in the health insurance industry. We show that the two datasets most commonly used to estimate market concentration differ considerably from each other (both in levels and in changes over time),... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Analytics and Data Science; Market Participation; Insurance Industry
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    • June 2020
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    How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections

    By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
    Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could introduce bias that erodes... View Details
    Keywords: Assessment; Bias; Inspection; Scheduling; Econometric Analysis; Empirical Research; Regulation; Health; Food; Safety; Quality; Performance Consistency; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • 18 May 2007
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    An Empirical Approach to Understanding Privacy Valuation

    Keywords: by Luc Wathieu & Allan Friedman
    • 2011
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    Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

    By: Michael Beer
    The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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    By: Rakesh Khurana
    I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
    • 2018
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    How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections

    By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel
    Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. Inspection accuracy is critical to inspections being a useful input to assessing risks, allocating quality... View Details
    Keywords: Assessment; Bias; Inspection; Scheduling; Econometric Analysis; Empirical Research; Regulation; Health; Food; Safety; Quality; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry
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    • 1972
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    The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Some Empirical Tests

    By: Fischer Black, Michael C. Jensen and Myron Scholes
    Keywords: Capital; Asset Pricing; Mathematical Methods
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    • December 2019
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    Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility

    By: Alfred Galichon, Scott Duke Kominers and Simon Weber
    We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching with imperfectly transferable utility and unobserved heterogeneity in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and... View Details
    Keywords: Sorting; Matching; Marriage Market; Intrahousehold Allocation; Imperfectly Transferable Utility; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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    • 19 Sep 2013
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    U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
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    Research Resources - Doctoral

    large-scale statistical databases, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments, and theoretical and empirical models. Support is available for methodological and statistical consultation, data procurement and analysis, programming,... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2006
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    Faculty Research Online

    which athletes won and lost in Turin, but what about the companies and individuals looking for business gold? Professor Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser looks at the results and the possibilities ahead for the Summer Games in China. New View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services