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Emerging Research

Focus On:

David Weil's "Expanding Homeownership While Reducing Consumer Default Risk"
R. Albuquerque wins European Corporate Governance Institute’s “best finance paper” prize

Faculty on Film & Podcast:

Marshall Van Alstyne on IP and open vs. proprietary systems

Susan Fournier hosts conference on brand community

Zvi Bodie talks risk, retirement, and investments for today’s turbulent times

Jim Post on defense contractors and charitable contributions

Select New Faculty Publications:

Books, Articles & Chapters, Working Papers & Teaching Cases

Emerging Research eNews Archive

Focus On:

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You

Expanding Homeownership While Reducing Consumer Default Risk

Professor David Weil
Everett V. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Finance and Economics Department, Boston University School of Management

Banks, investors, regulators, Congress, and the public continue to disentangle the costs of the subprime mortgage debacle. As they do, attention must also turn to how we might achieve the twin aims of increasing homeownership among groups historically excluded from those markets while reducing the risk of future lending meltdowns. One important answer is transparency. Read more>>

Rui Albuquerque wins European Corporate Governance Institute’s “best finance paper” prize

Winning paper titled “Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing”

Boston University School of Management’s Rui Albuquerque, Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics, has been awarded The Standard Life Investments Finance Prize by the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) for best paper in their 2008 Finance series. Read more>>

Faculty on Film & Podcast:

Marshall Van Alstyne on intellectual property and open vs. proprietary systems

In this podcast, join Boston University School of Management Associate Professor of Information Systems Marshall Van Alystyne, as he discusses intellectual property in the global, wired economy. Along the way, he touches on a wide range of issues, from Google mashups to remixes, and Jacki Chan to venture capital. Listen in>>

Susan Fournier hosts conference on brand community

In partnership with the Marketing Science Institute and with support from Boston University's Executive Leadership Center, Susan Fournier, associate professor of marketing and dean’s research fellow at Boston University’s School of Management, hosted Engaging Communities for the Company and the Brand. Watch video>>

Zvi Bodie talks risk, retirement, and investments for today’s turbulent times

Zvi Bodie, Boston University School of Management’s Norman and Adele Barron Professor of Management, advises how to invest safely today through TIPS. He also addresses why it's the role of the universities to educate the public about investment options like these. Watch video>>

Jim Post on defense contractors and charitable contributions

Do the "big ten" give big? Recently, James Post, School of Management Professor of Strategy and Policy, commented on the charitable donations given by the "big ten" defense contractors for WBZ News Radio. Listen in>>

Select New Faculty Publications:

Books

finance & economics

Zvi Bodie: The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing. Research Foundation of the CFA Institute (October 2007) - see online.

Marketing

C.B. Bhattacharya, N. Craig Smith, David Vogel and David Levine: Global Challenges in Responsible Business. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Organizational Behavior

Karen Golden-Biddle & K. Locke: Composing Qualitative Research. Sage Publications (2007).

Brad Harrington & Douglas T. Hall: Career Management & Work/Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers. Sage (2007).

Strategy & Policy

Jeffrey F. Beatty and Susan S Samuelson: The Essentials of Business Law. Third Edition. Thomson (2007).

Beth Goldstein: The Ultimate Small Business Marketing Toolkit. McGraw Hill (2007).

Articles & Chapters

Accounting

Krishnagopal Menon: “Management Turnover Following Auditor Resignations.” Contemporary Accounting Research (2008).

Lloyd Tanlu, Laarni Bulan, & Narayanan Subramanian: “On the Timing of Dividend Initiations.” Financial Management (2007).

Finance & Economics

Jacob Oded and Allen Michel: "Stock Repurchases and the EPS Enhancement Fallacy." Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming).

Zvi Bodie, Doriana Ruffino, and Jonathan Treussard: “Contingent Claims Analysis and Life-Cycle Finance.” American Economic Review (forthcoming 2008).

Zvi Bodie and Paula Hogan: “The Emerging New Model for Wealth Management.” Private Wealth Management (March 2008) – see online.

David Weil:” Mighty Monolith or Fractured Federation? Business Opposition and the Enactment of Workplace Legislation.” In The Gloves Off Economy: Problems and Possibilities at the Bottom of the Labor Market. Edited by Annette Bernhardt, Heather Boushey, Laura Dresser, and Chris Tilly. Labor and Employment Research Association (forthcoming July 2008).

Rui Albuquerque and Enrique Schroth: "Block trades and takeover regulation: An evaluation of the Mandatory Bid Rule vs. the Market Rule." Vox (April 2008) - see online.

Israel Shaked, Paul D’Arezzo and David Plastino: “Company Valuation: How Good is Goodwill?” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal (April 2008).

Zvi Bodie: "On Financial Literacy: What Every Retail Investor Should Know." In Innovations in Investment Management: Cutting-Edge Research from the Exclusive JOIM Conference Series. Bloomberg Press (Spring 2008).

Rui Albuquerque: “Agency Conflicts, Investment, and Asset Pricing.” Journal of Finance (February 2008).

Mark Williams: “Societe Generale: Textbook Case in Lax Risk Controls.” American Banker (February 2008).

Mark Williams: “Subprime Market Debacle.” Forbes.com (February 2008).

Jerome Detemple: “Simulation for Optimal Portfolios.” In Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science. Volume 15. Edited by J. Birge and V. Linetsky. Elsevier (2008).

Zvi Bodie: "Pension Guarantees, Capital Adequacy and International Risk Sharing.” In Frontiers in Pension Finance. Edited by Dirk Broeders, Sylvester Eijffinger and Aerdt Houben. Edward Elgar (2008).

Israel Shaked, Paul D’Arezzo and David Plastino: “Liquidity and Control: Valuation Discounts/Premiums and the Bankrupt Firm.” American Bankruptcy Institute Journal (December/January 2007/08).

Yrjo Koskinen, Arturo Bris, & Mattias Nilsson: “The Euro and Corporate Valuations.” Review of Financial Studies (2007).

Allen Michel & Jacob Oded: "Avoiding Distortion in Corporate Valuation Litigation: An Application of Discounted Cash Flow." Journal of Forensic Economics (2007).

Jacob Oded & Allen Michel: "Reconciling DCF Valuation Methodologies." Journal of Applied Finance (2007).

Michael Salinger: “The Legacy of Matsushita.” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal (Spring 2007).

Steven Segal, Thomas Boulton, Kenneth Lehn, Robert E. Litan, & Yasuyuki Fuchita: “The Rise of the U.S. Private Equity Market.” In New Financial Instruments and Institutions. Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute Of Capital Markets Research (2007).

Jonathan Treussard: “Life-Cycle Consumption Plans and Portfolio Policies in a Heath-Jarrow-Morton Economy.” ICFAI Journal of Financial Risk Management (2007).

Jonathan Treussard, Zvi Bodie , & Paul Willen: “The Theory of Optimal Life-Cycle Saving and Investing.” In Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing Conference Volume. CFA Institute (2007).

David Weil & Carlos Mallo: “Regulating Labour Standards via Supply Chains: Combining Public / Private Interventions to Improve Workplace Compliance.” British Journal of Industrial Relations (December 2007).

Information Systems

B. Zhu and H. Chen: “CommunicationGarden System: Visualizing a Computer Mediated Communication System to Facilitate Knowledge Management.” Decision Support Systems (forthcoming 2008).

Mark Gaynor, D. Myung, Joseph Restuccia, and S Moulton: “Designing
Infrastructure to Exchange Electronic Medical Records with Web Services.” International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations (forthcoming).

Carlos Ferran and Stephanie Watts: “Videoconferencing in the Field: A Heuristic Processing Model.” Management Science (forthcoming 2008).

Lihui Lin, Lucia Silva Gao, and Nalin Kulatilaka: “Coordination Mechanisms in the Development of Complementary Technologies.” International Journal of Management and Network Economics (forthcoming 2008).

Fernando Suarez: “Considerations for a Stronger First Mover Advantage Theory.” Academy of Management Review (January 2008)

Lihui Lin: “Impact of Users' Skills and Network Effects on the Competition between Proprietary and Open Source Software.” Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (forthcoming).

Jintae Lee, George Wyner, & Brian T. Pentland: “Process Grammar as a Tool for Business Process Design.” MIS Quarterly (forthcoming)

B. Zhu and H. Chen: “Information Visualization for Decision Making.” In Handbook on Decision Support Systems. Edited by Frada Burstein and Clyde W. Holsapple. Springer-Verlag (2008).

N. Venkatraman and John C. Henderson: "Four Vectors of Business Model Innovation: Value Capture in a Network Era." In From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity. Edited by Daniel Pantaleo and Nirmal Pal (forthcoming March 2008).

Paul Carlile: “An Historical Shift for Science-Based Drug Discovery?” Harvard Business Review (July 2008).

John Henderson: “Digital Usage Behavior: A Sense Making Perspective.” In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008) (January 2008).

Marketing

Scott Swain , Danny Weathers, & Ronald W. Niedrich: “Assessing Three Sources of Misresponse To Negated Likert Items.” Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming 2008).

Frederic Brunel “A Moderated Perceptual Model of Product Aesthetic Evaluation” (conference proceeding). European Advances in Consumer Research. 8 (forthcoming 2008).

Patrick Kaufmann, Charles Brooks and Donald Lichtenstein: “Trip Chaining Behavior and Multi-Purpose Shopping Trips: A Field Experiment and Laboratory Replication” Journal of Retailing (forthcoming 2008).

Susan Fournier, Michael Solomon, Basil Englis: "When Brands Resonate.” In Handbook of Brand and Experience. Edited by Bernd E. Schmitt. Elgar Publishing (forthcoming 2008).

Roberta Clarke: "Organ Donation: A Significant Marketing Challenge." Health Marketing Quarterly (forthcoming Spring 2008).

C.B. Bhattacharya, Shuili Du, and Sankar Sen: “Exploring the Social and Business Returns of a Corporate Oral Health Initiative Aimed at Disadvantaged Hispanic Families. Journal of Consumer Research (2008). - Download (pdf).

C.B. Bhattacharya and Daniel Korschun: “Stakeholder Marketing: Beyond the 4P's and the Customer.” Journal of Public Policy and Marketing (Spring 2008). - Download (pdf)

Scott Swain, Tim Silk, & Laura Smarandescu: “The Effect of Monetary Format on the Assignment of Windfall Income to Mental Accounts.” Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology (February 2008).

Susan Fournier, Frank Fehle, Thomas Madden, David Shrider: "Brand Value and Asset Pricing." Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting. (Winter 2008).

Susan Fournier, Chris Allen, Felicia Miller: "Brands and their Meaning Makers.” In Handbook of Consumer Psychology. Edited by Curtis Haugtvedt, Paul Herr, and Frank Kardes. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2008).

Susan Fournier and Russell S. Winer (eds): "Engaging Communities for the Company and the Brand" (conference summary Report No. 08-301). Marketing Science Institute (2008).

Scott Swain: “An Examination of Concreteness and Whole Number Dominance Effects on the Evaluation of Percentage Shipping Charges” (conference proceedings). Society for Consumer Psychology (February 2008).

C.B. Bhattacharya, Daniel Korschun, & Sankar Sen: “Strengthening Stakeholder-Company Relationships Through Mutually Beneficial Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives.” Journal of Business Ethics (2007).

C.B. Bhattacharya, Daniel Korschun, & Sankar Sen: “Using Corporate Social Responsibility to Win the War for Talent.” MIT Sloan Management Review (Winter 2007).

Patrick Kaufmann, Naveen Donthu, and Charles M. Brooks: “An Illustrative Application of Multi-Unit Franchise Expansion in a Local Retail Market.” Journal of Marketing Channels (2007).

Daniel Korschun & C.B. Bhattacharya: “Stakeholder Marketing: Beyond the 4 P's and the Customer.” Marketing Science Institute (2007).

Scott Swain & Frédéric Brunel: “A Moderated Perceptual Model of Product Aesthetic Evaluations.” Advances in Consumer Research (2007).

Scott Swain, Eleni Zoi Papavasileiou, & C.B. Bhattacharya: “Consumers’ Reactions to Acquisitions of Socially Responsible Companies.” Advances in Consumer Research (2007).

Scott Swain , Weimin Dong, & Paul D. Berger: “The Role of Channel Quality in Optimal Allocation of Acquisition and Retention Spending. Journal of Business Research (December 2007).

Operations & Technology Management

Alan Cohen, Joseph Restuccia, Michael Shwartz, et al.: “A Survey of Hospital Quality Improvement Activities.” Medical Care Research and Review (forthcoming).

Michael Shwartz, Z. Justin Ren, Erol Pekoz, X. Wang, Alan Cohen, and Joseph Restuccia: “Estimating A Composite Measure of Hospital Quality From the Hospital Compare Database.” Medical Care (forthcoming 2008).

Nitin Joglekar and M. Levesque: “Marketing, R&D and Startup Valuation.” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (forthcoming 2008).

Stephen Davidson, Michael Shwartz & R.S. Stafford: "The Feasibility and Value of New Measures Showing Patterns of Quality for Patients with Three Chronic Conditions." Journal of Ambulatory Care Management (January-March 2008).

Z. Justin Ren and Y.P Zhou: “Call-center Outsourcing: Coordinating Staffing Level and Service Quality.” Management Science (February 2008).

Nitin Joglekar, Z. Lee, & D.V. Ford: “Resource Allocation Policy Design for Reduced Project Duration: A Systems Modeling Approach.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science (October 2007).

Nitin Joglekar & P. Figueiredo: “Dynamics of Project Screening in a Product Development Pipeline.” International System Dynamics Society (May 2007).

Nitin Joglekar & Paulo Gomes: “Linking Modularity with Problem Solving and Coordination Efforts.” Managerial & Decision Economics (April 2007).

E. Anderson, A. Davis-Blake Nitin Joglekar, S. Erzurumlu, & G. Parker: “Managing Distributed Product Development across Organizational Boundaries.” Research Handbook of New Product Development (February 2007).

Nalin Kulatilaka & Lihui Lin: “Strategic Options and Firm Value.” Managerial Finance (2007).

Eugene Litvak, B. Sarov, L. Novack, N. Beer, J. Safi, H. Soliman, J. S. Pliskin, A. Yaari, and E. Shinar: “Feasibility and cost–benefit of implementing pooled screening for HCVAg in small blood bank settings.” Transfusion Medicine (2007).

Eugene Litvak, Rathlev, NK., et al.: Time Series Analysis of Variables Associated With Daily Mean Emergency Department Length of Stay.” Annals of Emergency Medicine (March 2007).

Steven Segal, Thomas Boulton, and Kenneth Lehn: “The Rise of the U.S. Private Equity Market.” In New Financial Instruments and Institutions. Edited by Robert E. Litan and Yasuyuki Fuchita. Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute Of Capital Markets Research (2007).

Organizational Behavior

Karen Golden-Biddle: “Using content analysis to elaborate adolescent theories of organization.” Organizational Research Methods (forthcoming October 2008).

Karen Golden-Biddle, Mark Easterby-Smith and Karen Locke: "Working with Pluralism: Determining Quality in Qualitative Research." Organizational Research Methods. Editorial introduction for special issue on “Determining Quality in Qualitative Research” (forthcoming July 2008).

P. Parker, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram: "Peer Coaching and Accelerated Career Development." Academy of Management Learning and Education (forthcoming June 2008).

Kathy Kram: "The Case for Executive Adaptability." Leadership in Action (February 2008).

John McCarthy: “Short Stories at Work: Storytelling as an indicator of organizational commitment.” Group and Organization Management (2008).

Douglas T. Hall: “Reflections on calling and careers in community psychology.” Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community (2008).

M. Lips-Wiersma and Douglas T. Hall: Organizational career development is not dead: a case study on managing the new career during organizational change. Journal of Organizational Behavior (2007).

Strategy & Policy

Sushil Vachani, Fred Foulkes and Jennifer Zaslow: “Human Resource Challenges of Global Offshoring.” European Journal of International Management (forthcoming 2008).

Sushil Vachani: “India: opportunities and challenges for multinational enterprises.” International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets (forthcoming 2008).

Sushil Vachani and N.C. Smith: “Socially responsible distribution: strategies for reaching the bottom of the pyramid.” California Management Review (Winter 2008).

Andrea Fosfuri & Marco Giarratana: “Product Strategies and Survival in Schumpeterian Environments: Evidence from the US Security Software Industry.” Organization Studies (2007).

Andrea Fosfuri, Marco Giarratana, & Alessandra Luzzi: “The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products.” Organization Science (2007).

Carol VanDeusen Lukas , Sally K. Holmes, Alan B. Cohen, Joseph Restuccia, Irene E. Cramer, Michael Shwartz, & Martin P. Charns: “Transformational Change in Health Care Systems: An Organizational Model.” Health Care Management Review (December 2007).

Ashley Stevens, J. J. Jensen, K. Wyller, E. R. London, S. K. Chatterjee, F. E. Murray, & M. L. Rohrbaugh: “Role of Public Sector Research in the Discovery of New Drugs” (conference proceedings). Annual Meeting Association of University Technology Managers (March 2007).

Ashley Stevens: “The Biopharmaceutical Industry in Massachusetts – The Triple Helix in Action.” Journal of Biolaw and Business (May 2007).

Aparna Pande: “Escaping India: An Explanation of Pakistan's Middle Eastern Orientation.” Melbourne Journal of Politics (2007).

Sushil Vachani: “Japan, 2006.” Vikalpa (December 2007).

Sushil Vachani, H. Teegen, & J. Doh: “The importance of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in global governance and value creation: an international business research agenda.” In International Business and Globalization. Volume I. Edited by J. D Daniels & J.A. Krug. Sage (2007).

Jennifer Walske: “Effect of Syndication Networks on Entrepreneurial Firm Success.” Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Babson Conference Proceedings (2007).

Working Papers

Accounting

Wenli Huang & H. Lu: “Stock option grants: The economic consequences of revelation of backdating and the confounding effect of good-timing.” Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Finance & Economics

Rui Albuquerque and Enrique Schroth: “Determinants of the Block Premium and of Private Benefits of Control. Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2008.

Iain Cockburn & Megan MacGarvie: “Patents, Thickets and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms: Evidence from the Software Industry.” NBER Working Paper No. 13644. November 2007.

Doriana Ruffino: “Capital Risk Management: The Optimal Exercise of Career Options.” Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Doriana Ruffino & Jonathan Treussard: “Lumps and Clusters in Duopolistic Investment Games: An Early Exercise Premium Approach.” Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

information systems

Stephanie Watts and Dowan Kwon: “IT Value and Interpretation Bias.” Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2008.

Stephanie Watts and Paul Carlile: “Knowledge at the Edge: Moving A While Hoping for B.” Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2008.

Organizational Behavior

Karen Golden-Biddle, Trish Reay & Samia Chreim: "Diffusing new ways of working." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Karen Golden-Biddle, Karen Locke & Martha Feldman: "Abduction, belief and doubt in theorizing new ideas." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Karen Golden-Biddle & Trish Reay: "Gendered work: Negotiating boundaries and claiming value for a new role." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Karen Golden-Biddle, Ann Langley, Trish Reay, Jean Louis-Denis & Lise Lamothe: "Identity work in merging health organizations." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Teaching Cases

marketing

Susan Fournier and Josh Kampel: “Engineering the Experience for Best Buy's Magnolia Brand” (2008).

Susan Fournier and Courtney Guzman: "Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content fot the Harley-Davidson Brand." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Susan Fournier and Phil Vogels: "The VW Phaeton: Failure of the People's Luxury Car." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.

Susan Fournier and Phil Vogels: "Moving the Hyundai Brand Up- market." Boston University School of Management Working Paper. 2007.