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  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Exxon oil refinery and designed chemical plants for Chevron. “I had practical experience in the energy field, but as an engineer, I focused entirely on the quantitative,” explains Wulff. His wife, Louise,... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • News

And Now, a Word from Our Graduates

Keywords: alumni; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

make decisions. But it's not all about a cost/benefit comparison...It's change and it's new and you can't know everything about that. It's the future, so at some point you do rely on something beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

portfolio performance and generated strong returns for its investors—accomplishments attributed to its unique balance between operations and finance professionals. The firm made sure that, for every deal, it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being (A) and (B)

By: Ashley V. Whillans
This case describes the experiences of Michael Sanders—the Chief Executive of the What Works Center for Children’s Social Care—as he led the design and implementation of a program of research aimed at improving the social care system in the United Kingdom (UK) at the... View Details
Keywords: Non-cash Compensation; Behavioral Science; Employees; Well-being; Compensation and Benefits; United Kingdom
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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

they had never done so before? The credit card business included a popular loyalty program and GPS leadership was very focused on customer engagement and experience for program... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2022
  • Article

Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry

By: Young Hou and Dennis Yao
This paper exploits a natural experiment involving self-regulation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry to evaluate the performance impact of product repositioning. It then examines how a product's brand equity value declines with repositioning distance... View Details
Keywords: Positioning; Resources; Brand Equity; Competitive Dynamics; Non-market Strategy; Regulation; Repositioning; Product Positioning; Performance Evaluation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch
We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Reputation; Investment Banking; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Goodwill Accounting; Power and Influence; Banking Industry
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    Passion Penalizes Women and Advantages (Unexceptional) Men in High-Potential Designations

    High potential programs offer a swift path up the corporate ladder for those who secure a place on them. However, the evaluation of “potential” occurs under considerable uncertainty, creating fertile ground for gender bias. We document that men are more likely than... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

    By: Debora L. Spar
    This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details
    • May 2018
    • Article

    Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

    By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
    Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to test whether an... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Creativity; Performance
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    • 04 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

    with a warm communication style, both in a field experiment (Study 2) and in a laboratory experiment (Study 3). This was driven by the fact that offers delivered in tough... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Article

    When Seeking Help, Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Benefit from Explicitly Stating Their Identity

    By: Erika L. Kirgios, Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
    Receiving help can make or break a career, but women and racial/ethnic minorities do not always receive the support they seek. Across two audit experiments—one with politicians and another with students—as well as an online experiment (total n = 5,145), we test whether... View Details
    Keywords: Support; Marginalized Communities; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Identity; Race; Gender; Communication Intention and Meaning
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    • October 2010
    • Journal Article

    The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies

    By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
    This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel-dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Product; Markets; Competition; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Rank and Position; Organizational Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Change; Trade; United States
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Multiple Team Membership, Turnover, and On-Time Delivery: Evidence from Construction Services

    By: Hise O. Gibson, Bradely R. Staats and Ananth Raman
    Firms who want to compete in dynamic markets are finding that they must build more agile operations to ensure success. One way for a firm to increase organizational agility is to allocate employees to multiple project teams, simultaneously—a practice known as multiple... View Details
    Keywords: Multiple Team Membership; Turnover; Fluid Teams; Project Management; Groups and Teams; Projects; Management; Performance
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      Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

      Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by JAR, to test whether an information sharing system recording... View Details
      • 14 Oct 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

      people are chronically disappointed and frustrated by their experiences as consumers and employees. We no longer trust large organizations to serve our needs. On every level,... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 08 Dec 2021
      • Blog Post

      The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

      opportunity to strengthen his profile and built business development and startup experience through internships. Memme also continued crafting View Details
      • Web

      Power and Influence - Course Catalog

      designed to help you experience how people react to shifts in power over time. Final Paper Assignment The course ends with your final paper in which you apply the lessons of the course to your own situation. The final paper should be... View Details