Publications

26 Jan 2025
News

Research Finds Goal-Oriented Individuals More Trustworthy

24 Apr 2014
News

Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals

Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for Americans who cannot afford to pay, helping them to file more than... View Details

09 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

Keywords: by Rafael M. Di Tella, Juan Dubra & Robert MacCulloch; Energy; Utilities

2003
Working Paper

Can Individual Investors Beat the Market?

By: Joshua D. Coval, David Hirshleifer and Tyler Shumway

1988
Chapter

From Individual Creativity to Organizational Innovation

By: T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation

November 2007 (Revised June 2016)
Background Note

Differences at Work: The Individual Experience

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This note presents some basic concepts and findings from social science research that can help you anticipate and manage some of the complexities of differences at work. View Details

Keywords: Demographics

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August 2009 (Revised February 2011)
Background Note

Managing Individual Human Capital: Research Resources

By: Boris Groysberg and Emilie Codega

This technical note provides a list of library resources for researching executives and a bibliography of books on managing one's own career. View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Human Capital; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Research

New research shows that employees derive individual value from AI when using the technology improves their sense of competency, autonomy, and relatedness. Likewise, organizations are far more likely to obtain value from AI when their workers do. This report... View Details

August 1972 (Revised September 1976)
Background Note

Understanding Another Person, Part I: The Individual Frame of Reference

By: Anthony Athos and John J. Gabarro

Personality theory. The individual frame of reference. View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Relationships; Identity

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2023
Working Paper

Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns

By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Shimon Kogan and Ran Xing

Despite positive and significant earnings announcement premia, we find that institutional investors reduce their exposure to stocks before earnings announcements. A novel result on the sensitivity of flows to individual stock returns provides a potential explanation.... View Details

Keywords: New Trading; Mutual Funds; Fund Flows; Limits To Arbitrage; Financial Constraints; Earnings Announcements; Institutional Investing; Stocks

SSRN

March 1990 (Revised April 1991)
Case

Chase Manhattan Bank (C): The Individual Bank

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

March 1990 (Revised May 1990)
Supplement

Chase Manhattan Bank (H): International Individual Bank

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Banking Industry

1 Aug 1983
Conference Presentation

The Cognitive-Affective Cross-Fire in Negative Self-Concept Individuals

By: R. Ely, W. B. Swann and J. Griffin

Research Summary

Individual Credit Constraints in Rural India (w/ Sendhil Mullainathan)

Credit access for the poor has recently been given center stage in the international policy arena. A plethora of reports and case studies have emphasized the enormous returns that micro-businesses face: the Year of Microcredit website notes that studies conducted in... View Details

April 1994
Article

Salesforce Compensation Plans: An Individual Level Analysis

By: R. Lal, D. Outland and R. Staelin

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits

Government bonds comove more strongly with bond-like stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on... View Details

2017
Article

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

2011
Working Paper

Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth

As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Market Participation; Marketplace Matching; Organizations; Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry