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Boston University School of Management

Winter 2007/2008

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.

Faculty on Film & Podcast

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>>

CB Bhattacharya discusses, "Does It Pay to Be a Good Citizen? A Market-Based View"

An excerpt from the talk "Does It Pay to Be a Good Citizen? A Market-Based View," by CB Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of Marketing at Boston University School of Management, from a conference in Heidelberg, Germany. Listen in>>

Select New Faculty Publications

Books

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

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

Articles & Chapters

Accounting

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

Finance & Economics

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).

Marketing

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).

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

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).

Scott Swain, Danny Weathers and Jay P. Carlson: “An Examination of Concreteness and Whole Number Dominance Effects on the Evaluation of Percentage Shipping Charges.”
Proceedings of the Society for Consumer Psychology (February 2008).

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).

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

Information Systems

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

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).

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

Operations & Technology Management

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).

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).

Organizational Behavior

Karen Golden-Biddle, Mark Easterby-Smith & 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 Summer 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

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).

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).

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.” 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

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.

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 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.