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  • December 2020
  • Case

PG&E and the First Climate Change Bankruptcy
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
In early 2020, the California-based utility PG&E filed a second amended plan of reorganization. PG&E had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the face of more than $30 billion of legal claims brought against it for its alleged role in causing California wildfires. The...  View Details
Keywords: Chapter 11; utilities; Liabilities; Restructuring; Insolvency And Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Climate Change; utilities Industry; United States
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

How Do CEOs Make Strategy?
By: Mu-Jeung Yang, Michael Christensen, Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and Jan Rivkin
We explore the critical question of how executives make strategic decisions. Utilizing a new survey of 262 CEO alumni of Harvard Business School, we gather evidence on four aspects of each executive’s business strategy: its overall structure, its formalization, its...  View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Ceo; Strategy; Management; Decision Making; Surveys; Business Education
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt
By: Grant E. Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Stephen Bush, Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
Many consumers struggle to repay their credit card debt, in part because paying small portions of large bills often feels fruitless. We introduce a novel credit card payment option—repayment-by-purchase—and examine its influence on both the amount consumers’ repay and...  View Details
Keywords: Consumer Debt; Goal Pursuit; Goal Progress; Financial Decison-making; Personal Finance; Credit Cards; Borrowing And Debt; Goals And Objectives; Motivation And Incentives; Decision Making
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  • November–December 2020
  • Article

Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can...  View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Best Practices; Employment; Health Pandemics; Geographic Location; Opportunities; Problems And Challenges
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  • October 2020
  • Supplement

Essent: From a State-Owned Utility to a Commercial Company (B)
By: Ananth Raman and Elena Corsi
Keywords: Lean Management; Operation Management; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Energy Industry; Netherlands
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  • August 2020
  • Article

Lone Wolves in Competitive Equilibria
By: Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers and Ross Rheingans-Yoo
This paper develops a class of equilibrium-independent predictions of competitive equilibrium with indivisibilities. Specifically, we prove an analogue of the “Lone Wolf Theorem” of classical matching theory, showing that when utility is perfectly transferable, any...  View Details
Keywords: Indivisibilities; Matching; Lone Wolf Theorem; Marketplace Matching; Theory
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds
By: Malcolm Baker, Daniel Bergstresser, George Serafeim and Jeffrey Wurgler
We study green bonds, which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates assets...  View Details
Keywords: Green Bonds; Pricing; Bonds; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Markets; Price; Ownership; United States
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  • August 2020
  • Article

Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report
By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton
Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage...  View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending
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  • Article

Matching in Networks with Bilateral Contracts: Corrigendum
By: John William Hatfield, Ravi Jagadeesan and Scott Duke Kominers
Hatfield and Kominers (2012) introduced a model of matching in networks with bilateral contracts and showed that stable outcomes exist in supply chains when firms' preferences over contracts are fully substitutable. Hatfield and Kominers (2012) also asserted that in...  View Details
Keywords: Matching With Contracts; Substitutability; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

A Little Help from My Friends: How Receiving Assistance Affects Participation in Online Knowledge-Sharing Communities
By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah
Online knowledge-sharing communities are important arenas for the development and exchange of knowledge; both firm participation and sponsorship in communities are increasing, as is scholarly interest in understanding how interactions between members shape subsequent...  View Details
Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation And Invention; Interpersonal Communication
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  • July–September 2020
  • Article

Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation
By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the...  View Details
Keywords: Contest; Innovation; Employee Engagement; Organizational Learning; Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Innovation And Invention; Organizations; Learning; Employees; Perception; Health Care And Treatment
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  • 2020
  • Article

Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help
By: Amar Bhidé
Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing on concise, universal propositions verified through decisive tests. This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility...  View Details
Keywords: Economic Methodology; Simulations; Banking; Regulation; Judgment; Economics; Policy
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Psychosocial Impacts of Forced Idleness
By: Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane and Fatima Zahra
Social scientists have long posited that employment may deliver psychological utility beyond the value of income alone. Existing literature, however, suffers from problems of selection into employment and an inability to disentangle the pecuniary and non-pecuniary...  View Details
Keywords: Psychosocial Wellbeing; Employment; Refugees; Social Psychology
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  • June 2020
  • Article

Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions
By: Ron Adner, Jianqing Chen and Feng Zhu
We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that...  View Details
Keywords: Compatibility; Platform Competition; Profit Foci; Two-sided Platforms; Competition; Profit; Decision Making
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver
COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) therapy is currently a leading treatment for COVID-19. At present, there is a shortage of CCP relative to demand. We develop and analyze a model of centralized CCP allocation that incorporates both donation and distribution. In order...  View Details
Keywords: Covid-19; Convalescent Plasma; Vouchers; Health Pandemics; Health Care And Treatment; Resource Allocation; Market Design
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  • 2020
  • Article

The Upside to Feeling Worse Than Average (WTA): A Conceptual Framework to Understand When, How, and for Whom Worse-Than-Average Beliefs Have Long-Term Benefits
By: Ashley V. Whillans, Frances Chen and Alex Jordan
Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are shaped in critical ways by our beliefs about how we compare to other people. Past research has predominantly focused on the consequences of believing oneself to be better than average (BTA). Research on the consequences of...  View Details
Keywords: Worse Than Average; Better Than Average; Social Cognition; Self-perception; Social Comparisons; Identity; Perception; Personal Characteristics
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Costly External Financing and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Emily Williams
I provide new evidence that large and small banks have different external financing costs, which generates cross sectional variation in a deposits market pricing power channel of monetary policy transmission. I do so by exploiting a natural experiment using anti-trust...  View Details
Keywords: External Financing; Monetary Policy Transmission; Experiment; Banks And Banking; Financing And Loans; Interest Rates
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  • Article

History-informed Strategy Research: The Promise of History and Historical Research Methods in Advancing Strategy Scholarship
By: Nicholas Argyres, Alfredo De Massis, Nicolai J. Foss, Federico Frattini, Geoffrey Jones and Brian Silverman
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the use of history and historical research methods in strategy research. This article discusses how and why history and historical research methods can enrich theoretical explanations of strategy phenomena. The article...  View Details
Keywords: Methodology; Strategy; Business History; Research; History
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  • 2020
  • Chapter

Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one's own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge...  View Details
Keywords: Immigrants; Networking; Advice; Entrepreneurs; Inventors; Start-up Employees; Venturing; Co-working; Agglomeration; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Innovation And Invention; Social And Collaborative Networks
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  • Guest Column

Who's Afraid of 100%?
By: Jurgen Weiss
The articles describes 100% renewable/clean energy systems and argues that they may be less costly and easier to achieve than is often argued in the industry.  View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Green Technology; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry
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