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Reputational Costs of Receptiveness: When and Why Being Receptive to Opposing Political Views Backfires
A fast-growing body of research finds that receptiveness to opposing political views carries reputational benefits. A different body of research finds that opposing political views and the people who hold them are seen as repugnant. How could it…
Risk Information, Investor Learning, and Informational Feedback
This paper studies how public information regarding a firm’s riskiness affects investors’ incentives to acquire information about the firm and the firm’s ability to learn decision-useful information from its price. I find that risk information…
Social Drivers of Health Program Implementation in the Primary Care Setting of a Large Integrated Health System: A Qualitative Investigation of Clinician and Staff Perspectives
Introduction: Health systems are increasingly pursuing efforts to screen for and address social drivers of health (SDOH), the nonmedical factors that contribute to health outcomes and inequities. A large integrated health…
The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It - New and Expanded Edition
New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis — and that we’d never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The…
The Migration Decisions of Syrian and Ukrainian Refugees as Perceived by Their Receiving Communities
Discussions about refugee status often center around two assumed characteristics of their circumstances. One, that, because they fled their countries to seek safety, their migration decisions lacked choice. And two, that their migration will be…
The Temporal Dynamics of Goal Systems: How Goal Progress Changes the Drivers of Motivation
In this chapter, I introduce the temporally dynamic goal pursuit model and discuss how this model compliments and advances goal systems theory. This model proposes that goal pursuit is a dynamic process that spans from initiation to completion,…
The Venture Mindset
Inspired by venture capitalists’ unique way of thinking, The Venture Mindset offers a transformative playbook for delivering results in a rapidly changing world from a top Stanford professor and a technology executive.
The allure of consensus: People (over)seek consensus in selecting group persuasion strategies
How do people select targets when tasked with persuading a group of people? One approach would be to prioritize getting people in support of the persuader’s position to hold relatively extreme attitudes — an extremity strategy. An…
Understanding the Returns from Integrated Enterprise Systems: The Impacts of Agile and Phased Implementation Strategies
How do firms benefit from integrated enterprise systems (IES), and how does the IES implementation strategy influence the returns from IES? We investigated the implementation strategy that firms should follow to integrate multiple enterprise…
“When the Cruiser Lights Come On”: Using the Science of Bias & Culture to Combat Racial Disparities in Policing
In this essay, we highlight the interplay between individuals’ psychological processes and sociocultural systems in producing and maintaining racial bias. We use a conceptual tool we call the culture cycle to map these dynamics, and illustrate…
Will Large Language Models Replace Human Languages?
You versus we: How pronoun use shapes perceptions of receptiveness
In response to increasing societal divisions, an extensive literature has emerged examining the construct of receptiveness. This literature suggests that signaling receptiveness to others confers a variety of…
Capturing Value from Artificial Intelligence
In this AMD Guidepost essay, we document outstanding questions regarding how organizations can capture value from AI tools and outline pathways for future exploratory management and organizational research on AI. Specifically, we emphasize the…
Screening for Social Determinants of Health During Primary Care and Emergency Department Encounters
Introduction
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have mandated inpatient screening of selected social determinants of health (SDOH) needs starting in 2024.…
Feet to the Fire: How Should Companies Tie Executive Compensation to Climate Targets?
In recent years, many companies have made voluntary pledges to reduce their carbon footprint. In this Closer Look, we examine how some companies institutionalize their climate commitments through executive compensation contracts. We find…
Noise in Expectations: Evidence from Analyst Forecasts
Analyst forecasts outperform econometric forecasts in the short run but underperform in the long run. We decompose these differences in forecasting accuracy into analysts’ information advantage, forecast bias, and forecast noise. We find that…
2023 Survey of Investors, Retirement Savings, and ESG
In fall 2023, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hoover Institution Working Group on Corporate Governance at Stanford University, and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University jointly conducted a nationwide survey of…
Between Brand Attacks and Broader Narratives: How Direct and Indirect Misinformation Erode Consumer Trust
Misinformation can take various forms, from political propaganda and health-related fake news to conspiracy theories. This review investigates the consequences of both direct and indirect misinformation for brands and consumers. We review the…
Board Diversity and Shareholder Voting
The lack of diversity across gender and race of corporate boards has been one of the most significant issues in corporate board governance in recent years. Given the critical role that shareholders have in approving director appointments, we…
CEO Succession and The Walt Disney Company
CEO succession planning is a critical exercise for any organization. And yet, experience clearly demonstrates that many companies fail to successfully handle the transition from one CEO to the next. What are the causes of this breakdown? We…