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Leading with Values
As societies become more polarized, there is increasing pressure for business leaders to have a sense of purpose and to make moral decisions. Being a good leader requires both a keen understanding of the realities of human decision making as well…
Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards
Online discussion platforms (often referred to as discussion boards) are designed for facilitating remote discussions between users. To stimulate engagement (e.g., participation in the discussion), these platforms offer arriving users a ranked…
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Measuring memberships in light of developments in cognitive science and natural language processing
Miami Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
New York City Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…
On the Management of Premade Foods
This paper examines a grocery retailer’s management of a premade food product. The retailer’s goal is to maximize a weighted sum of direct profit and customer welfare. Multiple items of the product are produced in batches and displayed for sale.…
Pay-as-Bid Procurement Mechanisms for Differentiated Products
Problem definition: We consider the mechanism design problem of finding an optimal pay-as-bid mechanism in which the platform chooses an assortment of suppliers that balances the tradeoff between two objectives: providing enough…
Phoenix Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Portland Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Propaganda, Alternative Media, and Accountability in Fragile Democracies
We develop a model of electoral accountability with mainstream and alternative media. In addition to regular high- and low-competence types, the incumbent may be an aspiring autocrat who controls the mainstream media and will subvert democracy if…
Psychological Ownership as an Intervention: Improving the Government Benefit Participation Gap
SCP Annual Conference Best Competitive Paper Award, Runner Up, 2021
Quality Selection in Two-Sided Markets: A Constrained Price Discrimination Approach
Online platforms collect rich information about participants, and then share this information back with participants to improve market outcomes. In this paper we study the following information disclosure problem of a two-sided market: how much…
Real-Time Revenue and Firm Disclosure
We examine firm disclosure choice when information is received on a real-time, continuous basis. We use transaction-level credit and debit card sales for a sample of retail firms to construct a weekly measure of abnormal revenue for each firm. We…
"Reflections on an Accidental Career in Marketing" in Dawn Iacobucci (ed.) "Reflections of Eminent Marketing Scholars"
Riverside, CA Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Robust Bounds for Welfare Analysis
Economists routinely make functional form assumptions about consumer demand to obtain welfare estimates — often for convenience, tractability, or both. How sensitive are welfare estimates to these assumptions? In this paper, we answer this…
San Francisco Bay Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Seattle Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…
Sequential Procurement with Contractual and Experimental Learning
We study the design of sequential procurement strategies that integrate stochastic and strategic information. We consider a buyer who repeatedly demands a certain good and is unable to commit to long-term contracts. In each time period, the buyer…