positive behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

Greek companies to simulate growth in the economy, another mechanism to do this could have been foreign direct investment (FDI). Again, the news was not good, with no positive trends shown. Only the Greek government is to blame for this... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

previous research suggests increases such programs' positive impact on culture. The process generated a tick list of approximately 20 items, which was evaluated by the senior and unit leadership together in a debriefing. Is It A Priority?... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

position as market leader would deteriorate. Additionally, if Emirates NBD held back Tanfeeth's growth ambitions, some of the world-class talent Tanfeeth had been able to attract might leave. What was the best course of action for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

fairness for marriage markets in a similar fashion. We prove that there are marriage markets where no amount of money can guarantee the existence of a fair allocation. Checking Your Identities at the Door? Positive Relationships Between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

a number of unintended consequences can overshadow these positive effects for the retailer. First, loyalty programs can negatively influence the consumer's price perception of retailers. This conclusion directly follows from the arguments... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

earned on fixed costs), the brick-and-mortar retailer finds itself with shrinking margins. Online retailers' lower cost structures are driven by a variety of cost efficiencies. From an employee perspective, positions such as cashiers and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, and survival of firms as well as their follow-on fundraising. The positive impact of angel financing is independent of the level of venture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Accepting this position would be a move back into mainstream media but also a career shift from line positions to a corporate staff role. The case profiles Fili-Krushel's media experiences, and her use of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

rates for 2,159 infant patients, but only after two years. In the shorter term, using these activities is associated with worse performance. By the third year, the positive impact of using deliberate learning activities is similar to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

position is unreasonable, it may make little sense to be reasonable yourself. But if everyone routinely came to a dispute with a realistic starting position, the offers would be more or less aligned, and any negotiation that followed... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

emerge, control and protect one or more strategic bottleneck, and prevent others from gaining control of any system-wide strategic bottleneck. I use this framework to understand how IBM initially succeeded with the PC platform and then lost its View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

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