Opportunistic Managerial Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2011
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concurrent trades in these stocks by continuing fund managers. This behavior is observed regardless of fund characteristics and is stronger when new managers are external hires. The tendency of continuing fund managers to hold on to... View Details

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11%... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2011
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measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

being only one of three retailers to outperform Wal-Mart in both revenue and profit growth in that time. Life in a Dollar General store paints a vivid picture of the roots and historical focus of the company. Opportunistic buying has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2015
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serve as the glue across functions and business units. But without clarity about strategy and the ability to articulate strategy, people can only pick up random, disconnected cues about priorities, and alignment is then hit-and-miss, especially when it comes to linking... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

talent shortages. Anne Bonaparte sees it firsthand in her corporate customers: a lack of frontline security workers. “They’re not developers or data scientists,” she says. The workers they need range from entry level to managerial... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

21 Dec 2010
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with age. Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser, and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract Substantial evidence... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial incentives for social performance and suggest that CSR... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Feb 2011
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whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost Accounting: A View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

avoiding them. Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told By David Fubini, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior Wiley Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told delivers profound and rarely... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Robin Ely , Monique Burns Thompson Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure Entrepreneurial Management DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top B Area Faculty... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

University of Chicago Press, 1987. Merton, Robert C. , and R. D. Henriksson. "On Market Timing and Investment Performance Part II: Statistical Procedures for Evaluating Forecasting Skills." In Journal of Business 54 (October 1981). Merton, Robert C. , and T. A. Marsh.... View Details

15 Jan 2013
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http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2012
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PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the social psychology... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2012
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F. Ward, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (forthcoming) Abstract When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2009
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Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis Authors:Charles T. Horngren, George Foster, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav Rajan, and Chris Ittner Publication:13th ed. Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract Emphasizing the "different costs for different... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

successful), and the future (create the new model).This framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring the different sets of behaviors and activities,... View Details

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details