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  • March 1998
  • Article

An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar
We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Economic Reform; Efficiency Analysis; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Microeconomics; State Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; India
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

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      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • September 2022
    • Article

    Loneliness Versus Distress: A Comparison of Emotion Regulation Profiles

    By: Alyssa J. Tan, Vincent Mancini, James J. Gross, Amit Goldenberg, Johanna C. Badcock, Michelle H. Lim, Rodrigo Becerra, Ben Jackson and David A. Preece
    Loneliness, a negative emotion stemming from the perception of unmet social needs, is a major public health concern. Current interventions often target social domains but produce small effects and are not as effective as established emotion regulation (ER)-based... View Details
    Keywords: Emotions
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets

    By: Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari and Ugo Panizza
    This paper documents a set of new stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Debt; Financial Fragility; Firm-level Data; Large Firms; Emerging Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Financial Condition
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    Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

    Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
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    • February 2022
    • Article

    Sugar-sweetened Beverage Purchases and Intake at Event Arenas with and without a Portion Size Cap

    By: Sheri Volger, James Scott Parrott, Brian Elbel, Leslie K. John, Jason P. Block, Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia and Christina A. Roberto
    This is the first real-world study to examine the association between a voluntary 16-ounce (oz.) portion-size cap on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) at a sporting arena on volume of SSBs and food calories purchased and consumed during basketball games. Cross-sectional... View Details
    Keywords: Sugar-sweetened Beverages; Nutrition Policy; Obesity Prevention; Portion Sizes; Nutrition; Policy; Health; Behavior
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution

    By: Tommaso Giommoni, Gabriel Loumeau and Marco Tabellini
    We study the fiscal determinants of the French Revolution, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the salt tax—a large source of royal revenues and one of the most extractive forms of taxation of the Ancien Régime. Implementing a Regression Discontinuity... View Details
    Keywords: Extractive Taxation; Regime Change; French Revolution; State Capacity; Taxation; History; Government Administration; Attitudes; Public Opinion
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

    By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
    We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets

    By: Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and Zhiji Xu
    We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to higher operational costs through more product returns in the online retail industry. Dynamic pricing has been widely applied by many online retailers. Research has shown that, in response to dynamic pricing, some customers... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Cost Management; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry
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    • May 2010
    • Article

    Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels

    By: Anita Elberse
    Fueled by digital distribution, unbundling is prevalent in many information industries. What is the effect of this unbundling on sales? And what bundle characteristics drive this effect? I empirically examine these questions in the context of the music industry, using... View Details
    Keywords: Unbundling; Bundling; Digital Distribution; System-of-equations Modeling; Sales; Distribution Channels; Framework; Mathematical Methods; Revenue; Reputation; Internet and the Web; System; E-commerce; Information Industry; Music Industry
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis

    By: Juan Alcacer, Michelle Gittelman and Bhaven Sampat
    Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. However, it is well known that not all citations originate from applicants—patent examiners contribute to citations listed in issued patents—and that this could complicate... View Details
    Keywords: Citations; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; United States
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    • August 2019
    • Case

    Bark Gift Shop Ltd.

    By: Susanna Gallani, Jan Bouwens and Peter Kroos
    This case describes a setting in which the CFO of Bark Gift Shop Ltd., a gift items retailer, discovers an undesired pattern in the performance data suggesting that her shop managers that perform well during the first part of the year, purposely reduce their effort in... View Details
    Keywords: Data Analytics; Employees; Behavior; Performance; Management; Goals and Objectives; Motivation and Incentives; Analysis
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    • February 2015
    • Article

    The Great Recession, Insurance Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States

    By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan, Robert S. Huckman and Mark D. Hornstein
    Objective: To investigate the relationship between economic activities, insurance mandates, and the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the United States.

    Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Recessions; Medical Care; In Vitro Fertilization; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2009
    • Article

    Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric

    By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland

    Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details

    Keywords: Judgments; Food; Nutrition; Labels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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    • November 2024
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    A National Analysis of General Pediatric Inpatient Unit Closures and Openings, 2011–2018

    By: Carolyn San Soucie, Nancy D. Beaulieu, Jason D. Buxbaum, David Cutler, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Sarah C. McBride, Olivia Zhao and Alyna T. Chien
    OBJECTIVES: This paper provides an examination of: (1) the frequency and net rates of change for general pediatric inpatient (GPI) unit closures and openings nationally and by state; (2) how often closures or openings are caused by GPI unit changes only or caused by... View Details
    Keywords: Health Industry
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Generative AI and the Nature of Work

    By: Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng and Kevin Xu
    Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate a considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid... View Details
    Keywords: Generative Ai; Digital Work; Open Source Software; Knowledge Economy; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Labor
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    Effects of Description of Options on Parental Perinatal Decision-Making

    By: Marlyse F. Haward, Leslie K. John, John M. Lorenz and Baruch Fischhoff
    Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort care (CC) or intensive care (IC)-are presented or (b) their order of presentation. Methods: 309... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Family and Family Relationships; Health Care and Treatment
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
    A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences. In the median voter theorem, this outcome emerges as candidates strategically adjust their platform to get closer to their opponent. Despite its... View Details
    Keywords: Political Ideology; Political Elections; United States; France
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    • March 2022
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    Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinician Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Use

    By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, Mitchell Tang, Christopher Sharp, Christopher Longhurst and Robert S. Huckman
    Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic changed clinician electronic health record (EHR) work in a multitude of ways. To evaluate how, we measure ambulatory clinician EHR use in the United States throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Materials and Methods: We use EHR... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Electronic Health Records; Productivity; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; United States
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    Psychological Safety and Near Miss Events in Radiation Oncology

    By: Palak Kundu, Olivia Jung, Kathy Rose, Chonlawan Khaothiemsang, Nzhde Agazaryan, Amy C. Edmondson, Michael L. Steinberg and Ann C. Raldow
    Background: Near miss events, defined as harm averted due to chance, are learning opportunities in radiation oncology. Psychological safety is a feature of a learning environment characterized by interpersonal risk taking. We examine the effects of near miss type and... View Details
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