Publications

Workplace stress is exacting an ever-higher physical and psychological toll. It adversely affects productivity, drives up voluntary turnover, and costs US employers nearly $200 billion every year in healthcare costs. Many companies are aware of…

We formulate a private learning model to study an intrinsic tradeoff between privacy and query complexity in sequential learning. Our model involves a learner who aims to determine a scalar value, v∗, by sequentially querying an external database…

We study the effect of imperfect memory on decision making in the context of a stochastic sequential action- reward problem. An agent chooses a sequence of actions which generate discrete rewards at different rates. She is allowed to make…

We consider a game-theoretical multi-agent learning problem where the feedback information can be lost during the learning process and rewards are given by a broad class of games known as variationally stable games. We propose a simple variant of…

The Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI), a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1998, seeks to gather perspectives on challenges facing patients and clinicians in clinical spaces from which ideas can be gleaned to focus further research and…

When it comes to driving social progress, good intentions and a big heart are not enough to guide good decisions. Moving the needle requires skilled professionals who have experience creating social change. Unfortunately, our research shows that…

People spend considerable effort managing the impressions they give others. Social psychologists have shown that people manage these impressions differently depending upon their personality. Facebook and other social media provide a new forum for…

We comment on Arthur S. Jago’s recent article in Academy of Management Discoveries on algorithms and authenticity. Jago documents a compelling — and even startling — new set of empirical findings. He finds that when encountering products…

Latino-owned businesses are a significant and growing force in the U.S. economy, with the five-year average growth rate of Latino firms doubling or tripling that of the national, non-Latino-owned business average for the past fifteen years. This…

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This research sought to examine the relationship of individuals’ perceptions about their level of physical activity with mortality outcomes at the population level.

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Culture is like the wind. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt. When it is blowing in your direction it makes for smooth sailing. When it is blowing against you, everything is more difficult. For organizations seeking to become…

It has been estimated that more than three-quarters of all jobs are found through social networks. This is known as referral-based hiring. As referrals have grown in popularity, so has the debate about their impact.

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Financial education programmes are sometimes dismissed by critics claiming ‘mixed evidence’ on their effectiveness. This column analyses a full set of available randomised controlled trials evaluating the causal impact of financial education…

Research has typically examined the link of activity patterns and affect among late middle-aged and older people, in the context of continuity and activity theory. The aim of this present research was to test continuity and activity theory among…

Remarkably, growth in the number of Latino-owned firms in the United States is outpacing growth in number among other firms. This high business creation rate is unique in the U.S. because the five-year average growth rate in the number of Latino…

Silicon Valley companies are making news these days for their efforts to fix the underrepresentation of women in tech. Many are focused on increasing the pipeline of women studying STEM in high school and college. But pipeline factors are…

In this paper, I examine the systemic effects of campaign spending, looking at outcomes at the level of the legislature rather than the individual seat. Using a difference-in-differences design, I show that state-level corporate campaign…