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      Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
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      • January–February 2021
      • Article

      Cross‐firm Return Predictability and Accounting Quality

      By: Wen Chen, Mozaffar Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
      We test the hypothesis that if poor accounting quality (AQ) is associated with poor investor understanding of firms’ revenue and cost structures, then poor AQ stocks likely respond more slowly than good AQ stocks to new non‐idiosyncratic information that affects both...  View Details
      Keywords: Accounting Quality; Earnings Quality; Stock Returns; Investment Strategy; Accounting; Business Earnings; Quality; Investment Return; Investment; Strategy
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      Chen, Wen, Mozaffar Khan, Leonid Kogan, and George Serafeim. "Cross‐firm Return Predictability and Accounting Quality." Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 48, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2021): 70–101.
      • October 2020
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      Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

      By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
      How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work...  View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care And Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
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      KC, Diwas S., Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki, and Francesca Gino. "Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance." Management Science 66, no. 10 (October 2020).
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Minerva 2004: Discovery

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financing And Loans; Strategy; Decision Choices And Conditions; Biotechnology Industry
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Minerva 2004: Discovery." Harvard Business School Case 721-389, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Minerva 2010: Turbulent Times

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In 2010, amid a flurry of new discoveries, Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), raised $6.6 million to test her new cancer drugs in mice. It had been more than 6 years since she had announced that she and her small team at...  View Details
      Keywords: Biotechnology; Research; Product Development; Commercialization; Strategy
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Minerva 2010: Turbulent Times." Harvard Business School Case 721-390, September 2020.
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      The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

      By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
      Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care And Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations
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      Franklin, Brian, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris, and Eric Goralnick. "The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding." Annals of Emergency Medicine 75, no. 6 (June 2020): 704–714.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
      Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms....  View Details
      Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (wfh); Cannot Work From Home (cwfh); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; Covid-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Online Technology; Crisis Management
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      Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li. "Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-096, March 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
      • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
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      Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal
      The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe...  View Details
      Keywords: Aluminum; General Management; Cultural Change; Change Management; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Safety; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Bahrain; Middle East
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      Fuller, Joseph B., Gamze Yücaoğlu, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-056, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)
      • February 2020
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      Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (B)

      By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal
      The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe...  View Details
      Keywords: Aluminum Industry; General Management; Cultural Change; Change Management; Crisis Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Safety; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Bahrain; Middle East
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      Fuller, Joseph B., Gamze Yücaoğlu, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-057, February 2020.
      • September 2019
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      The Interpersonal Costs of Dishonesty: How Dishonest Behavior Reduces Individuals' Ability to Read Others' Emotions

      By: J.J. Lee, H. Hardin, B. Parmar and F. Gino
      In this research, we examine the unintended consequences of dishonest behavior for one’s interpersonal abilities and subsequent ethical behavior. Specifically, we unpack how dishonest conduct can reduce one’s generalized empathic accuracy—the ability to accurately read...  View Details
      Keywords: Dishonesty; Empathy; Ethics; Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Emotions; Perception
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      Lee, J.J., H. Hardin, B. Parmar, and F. Gino. "The Interpersonal Costs of Dishonesty: How Dishonest Behavior Reduces Individuals' Ability to Read Others' Emotions." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 9 (September 2019): 1557–1574.
      • September 2019
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      Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008

      By: Ryan Raffaelli
      In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had...  View Details
      Keywords: Technology Reemergence; Technology Cycles; Cognition And Market Redefinition; Legacy Technology Trajectories; Technology; Demand And Consumers; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Identity; Change; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
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      Raffaelli, Ryan. "Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008." Administrative Science Quarterly 64, no. 3 (September 2019): 576–618.
      • March–April 2019
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      A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands

      By: Budhaditya Gupta and Tarun Khanna
      Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in their home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal...  View Details
      Keywords: Recombination; Internationalization; Cross-cultural And Cross-border Issues; Multinational Firms And Management; Health Care And Treatment; India; Cayman Islands
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      Gupta, Budhaditya, and Tarun Khanna. "A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands." Organization Science 30, no. 2 (March–April 2019): 405–425.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices

      By: Ryan W. Buell, Shwetha Mariadassou and Yanchong Zheng
      We study how transparency into the levels and changes of relative sustainability performance affects consumer choices. Our work considers two forms of transparency: process transparency, in which customers receive information about the company's sustainability...  View Details
      Keywords: Relative Performance Tranparency; Process Transparency; Customer Transparency; Levels; Changes; Reflectiveness; Self-serving Attribution Biases; Sustainability; Consumer Choice
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      Buell, Ryan W., Shwetha Mariadassou, and Yanchong Zheng. "Relative Performance Transparency: Effects on Sustainable Choices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-079, January 2019.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers

      By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
      This paper studies the impact of the arbitrator selection process on consumer outcomes by examining roughly 9,000 consumer arbitration cases in the securities industry. Securities disputes present a good laboratory: arbitration is mandatory for all disputes,...  View Details
      Keywords: Arbitration; Financial Advisers; Financial Advisors; Brokers; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct; Fraud; Personal Finance; Conflict And Resolution; Information; Fairness
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      Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru. "Arbitration with Uninformed Consumers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-046, October 2018. (Revised May 2020. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 25150, October 2018)
      • September 2018
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      An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India

      By: Budhaditya Gupta and Stefan Thomke
      Recent research has studied innovation in emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; India; Product Development; Emerging Markets; Situation Or Environment; Medical Devices And Supplies Industry; India
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      Gupta, Budhaditya, and Stefan Thomke. "An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India." R&D Management 48, no. 4 (September 2018): 485–501.
      • 2019
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      Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation

      By: Giacomo Magistretti and Marco Tabellini
      We study whether economic integration fosters the process of democratization and the channels through which this might happen. Our analysis is based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with predicted trade constructed...  View Details
      Keywords: Democratization; Institutional Development; Economic Integration; International Trade; Trade; Global Range; Economics; Government And Politics
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      Magistretti, Giacomo, and Marco Tabellini. "Economic Integration and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-003, July 2018. (Revised January 2019. Available also from VOX.)
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      Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao
      Market imperfections are central to understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Integrated Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Nonmarket Strategy; Market Imperfections; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Dennis Yao. "Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage." Special Issue on Strategy and the Institutional Environment edited by Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis A. Yao. Strategy Science 3, no. 2 (June 2018): 463–480.
      • February 2018
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      Financial Disclosure and Market Transparency with Costly Information Processing

      By: Marco Di Maggio and Marco Pagano
      We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior information-processing ability and trade purely to exploit it. The disclosure of financial information induces a trade externality: if...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Disclosure; Information Processing; Liquidity; Market Transparency; Rational Inattention; Information; Financial Liquidity; Knowledge Use And Leverage; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Markets; Investment
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      Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano. "Financial Disclosure and Market Transparency with Costly Information Processing." Review of Finance 22, no. 1 (February 2018): 117–153.
      • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
      • Case

      AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

      By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
      By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that...  View Details
      Keywords: At&t; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Disruption; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation And Invention; Technological Innovation; Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      Gross, Daniel P., and William R. Kerr. "AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century." Harvard Business School Case 718-486, January 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
      • December 2017
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      Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions

      By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Nancy Rothbard and Steffanie Wilk
      Across multiple studies, we examine how identity conflict and enhancement within people affect performance in tasks that involve interactions between people through two mechanisms: role-immersion, operationalized as intrinsic motivation, and role-taking,...  View Details
      Keywords: Identity; Interpersonal Communication; Sales; Performance
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      Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Nancy Rothbard, and Steffanie Wilk. "Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions." Academy of Management Journal 60, no. 6 (December 2017): 2208–2238.
      • November 2017
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      Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival

      By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
      Emerging markets are characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69...  View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Markets; Institutional Voids; Reputation; Business History; Intangible Resources; Emerging Markets; Reputation; Business History
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      Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 11 (November 2017): 2147–2167. (Video Abstract.)
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