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Frontiers in Social Innovation
Edited by Neil Malhotra
Social innovation is the process of developing and deploying effective solutions to challenging and systemic social and environmental issues in support of social progress. Over the past twenty years,…
Preventive Drugs for Huntington’s Disease: A Choice-Based Conjoint Survey of Patient Preferences
Introduction: This research examined the perspective of the Huntington’s Disease (HD) community regarding the use of predictive biomarkers as endpoints for regulatory approval of therapeutics to prevent or delay the onset of…
Are You Listening to Me? The Negative Link Between Extraversion and Perceived Listening
Extraverts are often characterized as highly social individuals who are highly invested in their interpersonal interactions. We propose that extraverts’ interaction partners hold a different view—that extraverts are highly social, but not highly…
Bayesian Meta-Prior Learning Using Empirical Bayes
Adding domain knowledge to a learning system is known to improve results. In multiparameter Bayesian frameworks, such knowledge is incorporated as a prior. On the other hand, the various model parameters can have different learning rates in real-…
Broadening Versus Deepening: Gender and Brokering in Social Networks
Do women and men differ in their brokering behavior? Integrating the literatures on gender, self-construal, and social networks, we theorize that gender differences in relational interdependence produce different patterns of helpful brokering…
Confidence Intervals for Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Analysis
In an empirical Bayes analysis, we use data from repeated sampling to imitate inferences made by an oracle Bayesian with extensive knowledge of the data-generating distribution. Existing results provide a comprehensive characterization of when…
Digital Currencies: The U.S., China, and the World at a Crossroads
This multidisciplinary report explores the economic and sociopolitical motives for China’s central bank digital currency and its implications for privacy, international security, and the leading role of the United States in global finance. Among…
A General Theory of the Stochastic Linear Bandit and Its Applications
Recent growing adoption of experimentation in practice has led to a surge of attention to multiarmed bandits as a technique to reduce the opportunity cost of online experiments. In this setting, a decision-maker sequentially chooses among a set…
Generating Authenticity in Automated Work
In an increasing number of domains, people interact with automated agents (such as algorithms, robots, and computers) instead of humans. Across five studies, we explore the role of authenticity in shaping people’s reactions to automated…
How do Private Equity Fees Vary across Public Pensions?
We study how investment fees vary within private-capital funds. Net-of-fee return clustering suggests that most funds have two tiers of fees, and we decompose differences across tiers into both management and performance-based fees. Managers of…
Net Operating Loss Carryforwards and Corporate Savings Policies
We examine the relation between corporate cash holdings and tax net operating loss carryforwards (NOLs). The literature demonstrates that firms should distribute cash to shareholders rather than retain it and generate passive investment income…
Patient-Level Clinical Expertise Enhances Prostate Cancer Recurrence Predictions with Machine Learning
With rising access to electronic health record data, application of artificial intelligence to create clinical risk prediction models has grown. A key component in designing these models is feature generation. Methods used to generate features…
The Influence of Cultural Tightness-Looseness on Cross-Border Acquisition Performance
A growing body of research in economics focuses on whether cultural differences in social norms affect economic outcomes. Here we examine how differences in the strength of social norms — or tightness-looseness (TL) — across countries can explain…
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Greedy Algorithms in Multi-Armed Bandit with Many Arms
We study a Bayesian k-armed bandit problem in many-armed regime, when k ≥ √ T, with T the time horizon. We first show that subsampling is critical for designing optimal policies. Specifically, the standard UCB…
Transparency on the Path to Net-Zero
We propose and describe a corporate carbon reporting framework intended to strengthen the credibility and transparency of the existing net-zero pledges. We refer to this framework as the Time-Consistent Corporate Carbon Reporting (TCCR…
Trends and Determinants of Retail Prescription Drug Costs
Objective: To characterize price trends and variation for US generic and branded drugs at the retail level as they relate to pharmacy acquisition costs and local market factors.
Data sources: …
The Spatial Representation of Leadership Depends on Ecological Threat: A Replication and Extension of Menon et al. (2010)
Since humanity’s first steps, individuals have used nonverbal cues to communicate and infer leadership, such as walking ahead of others. Menon et al., (2010) showed that the use of spatial ordering as cue to leadership differs across cultures:…
Uncovering Interpretable Potential Confounders in Electronic Medical Records
Randomized clinical trials (RCT) are the gold standard for informing treatment decisions. Observational studies are often plagued by selection bias, and expert-selected covariates may insufficiently adjust for confounding. We explore how…
Hiring Women into Senior Leadership Positions Is Associated with a Reduction in Gender Stereotypes in Organizational Language
Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions. This underrepresentation is at least partly driven by gender stereotypes that associate men, but not women, with achievement-oriented, agentic traits (e.g., assertive and decisive).…
Anticipating VA/Non-VA Care Coordination Demand for Veterans at High Risk for Hospitalization
U.S. Veterans Affairs (VA) patients’ multi-system use can create challenges for VA clinicians who are responsible for coordinating Veterans’ use of non-VA care, including VA-purchased care (“Community Care”) and Medicare. To examine the…