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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Ferriola Syracuse High School Syracuse, UT HI Ian Ferris Waipahu High School Waipau, HI Subjects: Participation in Democracy, Political Science NY Jennie Ferry Brooklyn Technical High School New York, NY TN Scott Field Blyth-Templeton... View Details

December 2012
Course Overview Note

Good Practices for Supervising an EC Independent Project

By: Ian W. Mackenzie

Spurred by the notion that Faculty Supervisors (FSs) can make a significant contribution to the educational value and overall success of Independent Projects (IPs) to students, this note offers a set of good practices which can be used to guide the policies and... View Details

Keywords: Independent Projects; Faculty Supervisor; Project Manager; Student Evaluation; Projects; Groups and Teams

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03 Sep 2013
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with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program. Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2013
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issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs faced View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2011
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PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2012
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Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2014
Working Paper

Linguistic Complexity in Firm Disclosures: Obfuscation or Information?

By: Brian J. Bushee, Ian D. Gow and Daniel Taylor

Prior research argues that the linguistic complexity of a firm’s disclosures reflects managerial obfuscation. However, complex language can be used either to obfuscate or to convey information, with the effect likely depending on the incentives of the source. We... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Financial Reporting

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun. Tiona W. Zuzul : Included as one of the “Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” by Poets & Quants in 2024. 2023 Bharat N. Anand : Winner of the 2023 Robert F. Greenhill Award for... View Details

October 2012
Teaching Note

Liberia (TN)

By: Eric Werker and Ian Cornell

From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict and economic decline are complex and intertwined, resting on over a century of discriminatory elite rule and twisted... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Economic Systems; War; Economy; Government and Politics; Liberia

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25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

coupon legality. We find that coupons increase branded sales by 60+ percent, entirely by reducing the sales of bioequivalent generics. During the five years following generic entry, we estimate that coupons... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2008
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we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Why Do Pro Forma and Street Earnings Not Reflect Changes in GAAP? Evidence from SFAS 123R

By: Ian D. Gow, Mary E. Barth and Daniel Taylor

This study examines how key market participants—managers and analysts—responded to SFAS 123R's controversial requirement that firms recognize stock-based compensation expense. Despite mandated recognition of the expense, some firms' managers exclude it from pro forma... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Employee Stock Ownership Plan

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02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting researchers use to draw causal inferences... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2016
Article

Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity's Largest Gathering

By: Ian Barnett, Tarun Khanna and Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the aggregation of microscopic behaviors of their constituent elements, but connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has traditionally been difficult. Manifestations of... View Details

Keywords: Familiarity; Demographics; Behavior; India

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) for Innovating in Health Care (Wiley, forthcoming). Hubert Joly : Named HEC Paris Person of the Year in 2020. Hubert Joly : Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in... View Details

27 Oct 2009
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and Karim R. Lakhani Publication: Organization Science (forthcoming). Abstract We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace