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Manuscript Variations of Dabistān-i Maẕāhib and Writing Histories of Religion in Mughal India

By: Sudev J Sheth
A text that has found renewed interest among scholars of early modern India is the Persian compendium of religion called Dabistān-i Maẕāhib. Written between 1645 and 1658, the Dabistān presents a lively ethnographic and historical account of customs and habits of... View Details
Keywords: Manuscripts; Religion; History; India
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  • November 22, 2022
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Is Novel Research Worth Doing? Evidence from Peer Review at 49 Journals

By: Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors conservative ideas over novel ones. We investigate the association between novelty and the acceptance of manuscripts submitted... View Details
Keywords: Research; Journals and Magazines
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  • November 9, 2019
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Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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  • July 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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'Bugs' Burger Bug Killers

By: Ryan W. Buell and William Fulmer
In the height of its success, Bugs Burger Bug Killers (BBBK; Burger has a soft 'g' - it rhymes with merger) was the largest independent extermination company in America, growing at more than 20% per year. BBBK built its business on the promise of pest eradication,... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Service Industry
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The Politics of Food

By: Gunnar Trumbull
This project explores the origins and evolution of national food cultures, emphasizing the sources of variation in terms of quality, safety, and 'sophistication'. Comparing food cultures in postwar Italy, France, and America, I argue that distinctive national... View Details
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Works in Progress

"Hunkering Down and Venturing Out:  Network Activation in Response to the Uncertainty of Organizational Restructuring." Under Review.  Awarded Best Paper in Organizational Behavior:  2011 Trans-Atlantic... View Details

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By: Charlotte L. Robertson
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
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Self-Regulation by Japanese Trade Associations

Ulrike Schaede has recently finished a book manuscript on Japanese trade associations. As a results of recent deregulation and the recession of the 1990s, Japanese industries are assuming increasingly important regulatory functions. They do this through autonomous... View Details
  • March 2020
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The Role of Numbers in the Customer Journey

By: Shelle Santana, Manoj Thomas and Vicki Morwitz
At each stage in customers’ journeys, they encounter different types of numeric information that they process using different judgment strategies. Relevant numbers might include budgets, price, product attributes, product counts, product ratings, numbers in brand... View Details
Keywords: Numbers; Heuristics; Numerical Cognition; Pricing; Customer Journey; Information; Consumer Behavior
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Eddie Riedl's research focuses on two primary topics: fair value accounting, and international accounting settings. 

Regarding fair value accounting, his research examines both the critical reporting choices that managers make, as well as... View Details

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Dr. Sheth's research focuses on Indian political economy and social history from the sixteenth century to the contemporary, concentrating on the relationship between business households, financial capital, landed rights, and the dissolution and formation of states.... View Details
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The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression

By: Sophus A. Reinert
The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his... View Details
Keywords: H.P. Lovecraft; Society; Economics
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Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)

In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
  • 28 Feb 2022
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How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

terms of business outcomes, they're not developing the best customer relationships they could.” Companies that fix disparities in their service delivery are likely to boost customer satisfaction and loyalty, say Feldberg and Kim in the View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 26 Jun 2017
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How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
  • 29 Nov 2017
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How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

Cotrugli’s manuscript is not housed at Baker, guests had the opportunity to examine ledgers and other records in the collection from the same era. Although written 115 years earlier, Cotrugli’s treatise was not published until 1573, in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 29 Oct 2006
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The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Business School. Tedlow spent several years researching and interviewing Grove, to the point of inhabiting a small cubicle in Intel's Santa Clara, California headquarters. Although Grove participated with Tedlow, he did not review the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 07 Feb 2007
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Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

so detailed an investigation as would be necessary I would have to have a whole research staff working for me." To another friend, he wrote, "I am still a slave to my manuscript and for instance worried last night till 2 a.m..,... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

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