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Current Research: Issues in Corporate Governance

Effectiveness of shareholder voting
Reform of shareholder voting is a key component of legislation arising from the financial crisis of 2008. Professor Gow examines the effect of shareholder voting on corporate actions, particularly on... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through

By: Holly Dykstra, Shibeal O'Flaherty and A.V. Whillans
Behavioral interventions often focus on reducing friction to encourage behavior change. In contrast, we provide evidence that adding friction can promote long-term behavior change when behaviors involve repeated costly efforts over longer time horizons. In... View Details
Keywords: Friction; Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Outcome or Result
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The Global Networks of Multinational Firms (with Maggie Chen)

By: Laura Alfaro
In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We construct indices of network density at both pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a... View Details
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail

By: Chaoqun Chen and Donald Ngwe
Shipping fees are an important aspect of online retail for both consumers and sellers. A common fee structure is contingent free shipping, in which consumers are granted free shipping for basket sizes above a minimum value and are charged a flat fee for orders below... View Details
Keywords: Shpping Fee; E-commerce; Multi-category Demand; Search Costs; Shipping Membership; Spending; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry
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  • 04 Feb 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Anocha Aribarg, University of Michigan

  • 03 Mar 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Daniela Saban, Stanford

    Rational Habit Formation

    Regular handwashing with soap is believed to have substantial impacts on child health in the developing world. Most handwashing campaigns have failed, however, to establish and maintain a regular practice of handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests... View Details

    • June 30, 2020
    • Article

    Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution to Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With a Public Option

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard Boxer and James Wallace
    A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Financing; Public Option; Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management
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    • 19 Mar 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

    Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn
    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

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    Publications - Faculty & Research

    Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be View Details
    • 07 Mar 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

    begins to answer. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Why do traditional customer lifetime value formulas break down in a networked setting, and how does your model address those shortcomings? Sunil Gupta: Traditional models of CLV estimate a customer's... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
    • 12 Sep 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

    • 23 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami
    We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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    • February 2019
    • Article

    Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending

    By: David Cutler, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora Stern and David Wennberg
    There is considerable controversy about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Geographic Location; Values and Beliefs
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    • 12 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Accounting Information as Political Currency

    expected the accounting effect on election outcomes to be minor. When we ran the tests, we found that even a one standard-deviation change in our measure of earnings management could affect election outcomes in some cases. Q: Were you... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • August 2016
    • Article

    Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China

    By: Juan Ma and Tarun Khanna
    In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e. how they justify such dissent to public... View Details
    Keywords: Independent Directors; China; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; China
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    Get in Line: Chapter 11 Restructuring in Crowded Bankruptcy Courts

    This paper tests whether Chapter 11 restructuring outcomes are affected by time constraints in busy bankruptcy courts.  On average, total bankruptcy filings rise by 32% during economic recessions, leaving bankruptcy judges with far less time per case exactly when... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Financial Distress; Insolvency and Bankruptcy