Managing Managers' Reputations
How managers’ concern for their reputations influences their disclosure of earnings forecasts
Marketing
When Seeing Leads to Buying
Recent research indicates that seeing a new vehicle on the road can help sway some drivers to buy.
Marketing
Buying and Selling Seasonal Goods
Decoding the dual dilemmas faced by customers and retailers
Economics
What Gas Stations Tell Us about the Ups and Downs of Consumer Demand
How do industries react to demand shocks?
Finance & Accounting
How Bankruptcy Spreads
The bankruptcy of a single airline can reduce collateral values industry-wide
Is Wikipedia Biased?
Verifying the “neutral point of view”
Social Impact
The Price of Pollution
How much does environmental activism affect a corporation’s bottom line?
Operations
Outsourcing Contracts in Service Industries
A new model reveals a surprisingly simple pricing scheme for outsourced service contracts
Economics
All in the Family
Grantmaking of family and non-family foundations differ in predictable ways
Policy
Which Form of Government Is Best?
Democracies may not outlast dictatorships, but they adapt better.
Policy
Why Are Presidents Less Effective than Prime Ministers?
Using game theory to model political systems leads to surprising insights.
Finance & Accounting
The Risk of Risk Avoidance
Firms with high managerial ownership may invest too cautiously