Publications

January 2022 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Steem Versus Hive: Testing Blockchain Governance

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

This case examines a pivotal governance conflict that occurred in 2020 when Justin Sun, founder of the TRON blockchain, acquired Steemit Inc., the company behind a popular social media platform operating on the Steem blockchain. Steem, launched in 2016 by Daniel... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Mergers and Acquisitions; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Industry

June 2017
Case

Theranos: Small Volume Blood Testing (A)

By: John A. Quelch and Irene Lu

September 2015 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Merieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

August 1980 (Revised June 1983)
Supplement

Teradyne, Inc.--1979: Semiconductor Test Division (B)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

Customer orientation is a central tenet of marketing. However, less is known about how customer orientation varies across countries and time. Mintz, Currim, and Deshpandé (Eur. J. Mark., 56: 1014–1041, 2022) propose a country-level construct, national customer... View Details

Research Summary

Bodies at Risk: Chemicals Testing in the United States and Europe

This book project examines environmental regulation comparatively between the United States and Europe, with a focus on testing programs and controls on the manufacture of commodity and specialty chemicals. Findings thus far indicate that different relations among... View Details

October 2009
Journal Article

Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer

By: Oriol Carbonell and Diego A. Comin

This paper designs and implements an empirical test to discern whether the parties to a contract are able to commit not to renegotiate their agreement. We study optimal contracts with and without commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify... View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Research; Sports Industry; Spain

16 Mar 2016
Video

Testing Your Social Venture: Iterating Based on Market Feedback

29 Jan 2019
News

Howard Schultz Is Just Testing The Waters, Expert Says

Response

Kiva as a Test of Our 'Societal Creativity'

Response to "Kiva and the Birth of Person-to-Person Microfinance" by Matt Flannery (Innovations case discussion) View Details

Article

Organization Transformation as Punctuated Equilibrium: An Empirical Test

By: Michael Tushman and E. Romanelli

Keywords: Organizations; Transformation; Information

January 1984 (Revised January 1989)
Teaching Note

Teradyne, Inc.--1979: Semiconductor Test Division (A), Teaching Note

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Teaching Note for (9-581-023). View Details

Keywords: Semiconductor Industry

Research suggests that well-run boards take the process of self-evaluation quite seriously, often using a combination of director surveys and personal interviews to assess the functioning and effectiveness of the board, its committees, and its individual members.... View Details

March 2020
Case

Thingtesting: Launching a Brand Discovery and Testing Digital Community

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery

Thingtesting, a brand discovery and testing digital community devoted to uncovering and exploring direct-to-consumer brands, had just received seed funding and was contemplating a second year of growth. The new year brought many challenges, as founder Jenny Gyllander... View Details

Research Summary

Portfolio Betas Do Not Make for Better Asset Pricing Tests

Many papers claim that because using portfolios instead of individual stocks as test assets minimizes idiosyncratic volatility, their use also yields more precise estimates of risk premia. I show that while portfolio formation does lead to more efficient beta... View Details

03 Mar 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

Keywords: by Katherine L. Milkman, James Burns, David C. Parkes, Gregory M. Barron & Kagan Tumer; Web Services

2009
Other Book

A Test of a Company's Business Model

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Tatiana Sandino