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December 01, 2001
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Where Stock Market Psychology and Pricing Intersect
The emerging field of behavioral finance analyzes how deviations from standard rational assumptions may have important effects on stock prices.
November 01, 2001
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Short Selling May Affect Stock and Bond Prices
A finance scholar explores short selling's impact on markets, including when it's thwarted.
November 01, 2001
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Tax Shield May Make Convertible Bonds Attractive
Research suggests that companies are issuing these newly popular securities with more than raising capital in mind.
November 01, 2001
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Using Hedge Funds as Alternative Investment Vehicles
A seminar provides an inside look at hedge fund managers' strategic challenges, and why the offset risk can be attractive to investors.
October 15, 2001
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Robert Sutton: How to Promote, Manage, and Sustain Innovation
In his new book, a scholar offers "weird" ideas for managers to boost creativity and performance, each backed by research and real-world success.
August 01, 2001
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Are Auditors Biased?
A ground-breaking study suggests that accounting firms' consulting business impairs an auditor's independence.
August 01, 2001
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Reshaping Industries with Internet Supply Chains
In an excerpt from their book, Garth Saloner and Michael Spence explore the ways managers can use technological innovations to add value.
August 01, 2001
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Why Do Companies Continue to Use Stock Option Incentives?
A study says they're lousy motivators, but can serve as salary buffers to keep workers from leaving when compensation rises in the labor market.
July 01, 2001
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Virtual Prototypes Can Cheaply Test More Ideas
Research shows that Internet-based prototypes can predict consumer choice nearly as accurately as physical ones.
June 01, 2001
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Cultural Lenses Change Business Focus
How can firms understand and appreciate the cultural background of employees, partners, and customers without overemphasizing or stereotyping it?
May 01, 2001
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Is Reducing Inflation Good for an Economy?
An economist suggests the better question is: Do the long-term benefits of reducing inflation outweigh the short-term costs?
May 01, 2001
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Why Most Analysts Don’t Rock the Boat
Research suggests they fear a “sell” warning would reduce their status with top sources.
November 01, 2000
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Game Theory: A New Tool for Economists
In the last 25 years, many if not most significant innovations in economics have been driven by this methodological innovation.
November 01, 2000
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Managing Supply Chain Key Link to Growth
Successful businesses will be the ones who can adapt to changes from globalization, greater product variation, and shorter production cycles.
November 01, 2000
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Peter Löscher: Siemens Needed a New Corporate Ethic
The Siemens AG CEO explains how he helped the company recover from one of the worst scandals in corporate history.
August 01, 2000
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Is Hospital Competition Socially Wasteful?
A study finds that competition was good for a group of acutely ill patients, in part because of managed care efficiencies.
February 01, 2000
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Principles of Internet Marketing
In a new book, an economist explains how the internet's immediacy can cause a company to rethink its entire marketing organization.
November 01, 1999
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Diversity and Work Group Performance
Research shows that informational diversity stirs constructive debate around the task at hand.
November 01, 1999
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Managed Care: What Went Wrong? Can It Be Fixed?
In a Mayo Clinic lecture, a scholar explains the challenges to stemming out-out-of-control healthcare costs.
November 01, 1999
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The Knowing-Doing Gap
Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton explore how companies can turn talk into action, and why promoting internal competition may not help.
June 01, 1999
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Stock Options, It's all in the Timing
Researchers examine how compensation incentives affect executives' decisions to disclose information.
March 01, 1999
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Sharing Information to Boost the Bottom Line
Research looks at how much supply chain data should be kept secret.
August 01, 1998
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John Jost: Women Undervalue Themselves in Setting Pay Rates
In one startling study, women paid themselves 18% less than the men paid themselves for identical work.
September 01, 1997
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A Statistical Solution to Testing the Blood Supply for HIV
A Stanford GSB scholar devises an advanced model that allows inexpensive, accurate testing by pooling blood samples.