Publications

This presentation is an overview of supply chain best practices that can improve health access and delivery in emerging economies.

People’s values provide a decision-making framework that helps guide their everyday actions. Most popular methods of assessing values show tenuous relationships with everyday behaviors. Using a new Amazon Mechanical Turk dataset (N = 767)…

Today’s multinational companies are held to myriad social, environmental, and ethical standards in their supply chains. But despite efforts at monitoring, buyers routinely face challenges when working with suppliers to meet and exceed standards.…

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing debate. One view suggests there are fundamental changes in the labor market that imply a long-term higher rate of unemployment,…

Over the past three decades, the earnings of workers with a college education have substantially increased relative to those with less education. In 1980, the average college graduate earned 38% more than the average high school graduate. By 2000…

Drawing on a large sample of publicly available curricula vitae, this paper traces the career transitions of federal and state U.S. banking regulators and provides basic facts on worker flows between the regulatory and private sectors resulting…

Depression is typically diagnosed as being present or absent. However, depression severity is believed to be continuously distributed rather than dichotomous. Severity may vary for a given patient daily and seasonally as a function of many…

Over the last few years, a growing number of companies have put increased attention on issues related to social and environmental responsibility. As part of this trend, they have been gradually moving away from sole reliance on audits, and…

Demographic lexica have potential for widespread use in social science, economic, and business applications. We derive predictive lexica (words and weights) for age and gender using regression and classification models from word usage in Facebook…

User generated content on social media sites is a rich source of information about latent variables of their users. Proper mining of this content provides a shortcut to emotion and personality detection of users without filling out questionnaires…

Efforts to bring promising health care care to resource-constrained regions of the world often falter — or even fail — because entrepreneurs underestimate the array of obstacles that loom in their path. But aspiring health innovators can benefit…

Sociological theory offers many possible contributions to strategic management, although most of these are not widely recognized as such. Sociological ideas about sustainable advantage among firms involve both capability-based and position-based…

Since 1950, 13 economies have grown at an average rate of 7 percent a year or more for 25 years or longer. At that pace of expansion, an economy almost doubles in size every decade. This report is about sustained, high growth of this kind: its…

Nike’s approach to managing supplier responsibility has greatly evolved since the 1990s, when the media uncovered claims of child labor, underpaid workers, and poor working conditions in several Asian countries. This report explores how Nike’s…

Despite multinational firms’ continued investments in factory audits and other practices aimed at tackling social and environmental issues in their supply chains, lapses in employee labor standards, health and safety standards and environmental…

The financial shock of September 2008 occurred five years ago. The effects are still with us. In this essay we draw on our experiences 2 in the Bush White House and our work and teaching since then to offer views on recent economic history. We…

An increasingly demanding business environment, combined with more complex and distributed supply chains, have led a growing number of companies to take steps to improve electronic communication capabilities and B2B collaboration. Part 2 of this…

Knowing users’ views and demographic traits offers a great potential for personalizing web search results or related services such as query suggestion and query completion. Such signals however are often only available for a small fraction of…

The vast majority of low-income, high-achieving students in the U.S. do not even apply to any selective colleges, in spite of the fact that attending those institutions would cost less than the ones the students do attend thanks to generous…