The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

A focus on short-term stock prices induces publicly traded banks to increase risk relative to privately-held banks, according to this paper by Antonio Falato and David Scharfstein.

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

The regulatory system overseeing the financial technology industry is a tangle of multiple agencies and inconsistent rules. Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy propose a six-point plan to regulate online lending.

Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis, showing that distortionary taxation impacts the optimal scale and pricing of government programs.

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Many policymakers believe lliability laws need reforming so that medical device makers are free to innovate without threat of costly lawsuits. But new research by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso suggests innovation is not thwarted--just rechanneled.

How Newspapers Can Turn a Profit Online? That's Classified

How Newspapers Can Turn a Profit Online? That's Classified

Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture

This study by Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid argues that women's advancement is slowed because of social defenses at the organizational level, along with wider cultural beliefs that are resistant to change.

November 22, 2016

Résumé whitening ... Breakfast at the Paramount ... AnswerDash looks for answers.

Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870–1940

Research by Ai Hisano shows how food manufacturers, dye makers, and regulators co-created the food coloring business in the United States. Food-coloring practices became integrated into an entire strategy of manufacturing and marketing in the food industry.

Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

Wenxin Du and Jesse Schreger lay out a case for why a country might be more likely to default on its sovereign debt than allow inflation to eat it away.

November 15, 2016

Why gender inequality persists ... Is hiring best left to a hiring manager? ... Understanding brand portfolio strategy.

Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy

Mihnea Moldoveanu uses tools and models from computational complexity theory and the algorithmics of hard problems that are new to the strategy field in order to address how strategic process and structure adapt to the complex strategic scenarios and predicaments.

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don't Learn from Donald Trump

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don't Learn from Donald Trump

Managing Reputation: Evidence from Biographies of Corporate Directors

Ian D. Gow, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu analyze biographies of 12,895 board directors published in proxy statements to see how directors make strategic disclosure choices about their past and current experience in biographies.

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Donald Trump's upset election win offers six lessons for marketers looking to beat the odds and overcome powerful competitors, says John A. Quelch.

November 8, 2016

Winning the Chinese wine market ... Marketing food with color ... Using algorithmic models to study strategy.

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

Top executives who are inclined to reduce personal taxes might also benefit shareholders in their companies, concludes research by Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya M. Silva.

Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians

Do online communities such as Wikipedia segregate into separate conversations when contributing to contestable knowledge involving controversial, subjective, and unverifiable topics? Research by Shane Greenstein, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu.

You're Fired: Managing Gray-Area Decisions

You're Fired: Managing Gray-Area Decisions

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

Karen Mills looks at how financial technology and government policies can be used to pull small businesses away from the cash flow edge.

Patent Disclosures and Standard-Setting

This article explores firms' strategies in response to intellectual property (IP) disclosure requirements-in particular, the choice between specific and generic disclosures of IP-and the optimal response by standard setting organizations, including the royalty rate setting.

First Look - November 1, 2016

Luxury products that provide an alibi ... Selling a refrigerator to 80 percent of India ... Buying a product based on what's next to it.