Publications

On October 23, 2025, Amazon and the Value Chain Innovation Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business co-hosted the inaugural Supply Chain Summit, bringing together close to 50 supply chain executives and academics for a day-long…

Research shows care coordination contributes to integrated care experiences. Yet evidence from system-level initiatives is lacking. Using a survey of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patients linked with clinical records, this nonrandomized,…

Abundant prior research has analyzed the mass public’s role in democratic backsliding. Comparatively little research has studied democratic restoration, the rehabilitation of democratic institutions following backsliding. We investigate this…

Over the years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has exempted foreign private issuers (FPIs)—foreign companies traded on U.S. exchanges—from certain U.S. securities laws in order to attract high-quality companies from companies…

Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsourced theory-informed behavioral interventions designed to promote public, political, and financial…

Though teacher expectations have been researched for decades, their significance and impact remain topics of debate. Across two studies, we use methodologies designed to address common criticisms of observational research on teacher expectations…

People often want to eat healthily but fail to do so. Sometimes people try and fail to exert control over unwanted food choices. But failing to eat healthily might also happen for a different, largely ignored reason: when encountering conflict…

Previous research suggests that the effect of CEO activism depends on its alignment with stakeholders’ political ideology. We examine when and why CEO activism can enhance corporate reputation across the ideological spectrum. Integrating…

Artificial intelligence (A.I.) will likely be the most important technology we have ever developed. Technologies such as electricity, semiconductors, and the internet have been transformative, reshaping economic activity and dramatically…

We analyze over 27,000 social media livestreams by Chinese mutual funds to investigate whether they achieve regulators’ goal of improving retail investment decisions. Our findings indicate that livestreams generate significant inflows, often…

How do partisan differences in mass behavior and attitudes vary across contexts? Using new individual-level panel data on the COVID-19 pandemic from 54,216 US adults between March 2020 and September 2021, we consider how partisan differences vary…

Completely randomized experiments, originally developed by Fisher and Neyman in the 1930s, are still widely used in practice, even in online experimentation. However, such designs are of limited value for answering standard questions in…

We report computational analysis with extensions of March’s (1991) genetic model of exploration and exploitation to further illuminate strategic exploitation challenges highlighted in field research about the transition from exploration to…

When a temporary team faces an unfamiliar task environment, it should particularly benefit from including members who have collaborated before. Although several studies have made this prediction, it has not been supported empirically. We…

We study how the assignment of intellectual property rights between inventors and their employers affects innovation. Incomplete contracting theories predict that stronger employer property rights reduce the threat that employee inventors hold up…

Antitrust laws mandate review of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) that exceed an asset size threshold based on accounting standards that exclude most intangible capital. We show that this exclusion leads to thousands of intangible-intensive M…

It is important to understand how persuasive the most-cited climate change messaging strategies are. In five replication studies, we found limited evidence of persuasive effects of three highly cited strategies (N = 3,216). We then…

Over the past several years, the utilization of liability-management exercises (LMEs) as financial restructuring strategies for overleveraged companies in the U.S. has exploded, taking share from conventional bankruptcies and workouts. The use of…

A seller posts a price for a single object. The seller’s and buyer’s values may be interdependent. We characterize the set of payoff vectors across all information structures. Simple feasibility and individual-rationality constraints identify the…