New Research @
Boston University School of Management
Winter 2006/2007
Focus On:
Future of Lifecycle Saving & Investing
THE GROUNDBREAKING CONFERENCE WITH THE GLOBE'S LEADING THINKERS
(R to L): Professor Zvi Bodie, Boston University School of Managment; Cathy E. Minehan, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton; Paul Solman, PBS The Newshour; and Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson
Boston University School of Management’s recent “Future of Lifecycle Saving & Investing” conference presented groundbreaking research from some of the world’s most prominent thought-leaders in the field. Co-sponsored by Boston University, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the Research Foundation of CFA Institute, the event featured keynote addresses from Nobel Laureates Paul A. Samuelson and Robert C. Merton, as well as presentations from leading academics and practitioners such as...
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Quick Takes
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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence
Marshall Van Alstyne, Sinan Aral, & Erik Brynjolfsson: "Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence"
Named Best Paper at the 2006 International Conference on Information Systems
Among the paper's most significant findings:
- We were able to measure white collar output in a highly precise way, controlling for multiple factors.
- IT use is positively correlated with productivity in a nonlinear fashion.
- The structure of communication networks is a highly significant predictor of performance, better than age or experience.
- IT facilitates multitasking and, controlling for multitasking, it also increases workers' project speed.
- Using IT asynchronously (e.g. email and DB) helps multitasking, while using IT synchronously (e.g. phone) hurts multitasking.”
Select New Faculty Publications
Books
Accounting
Finance & Economics
David Weil, Archon Fung, & Mary Graham: Full Disclosure: The Politics, Perils, and Prospects of Transparency. Cambridge University Press (2007).
Information Systems
Marketing
Operations & Technology Management
Organizational Behavior
Jennifer Howard-Grenville: Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice: Managing Change at a High-Tech Manufacturer. Edward Elgar (2007).
Strategy & Policy
Articles/Chapters
Accounting
Finance & Economics
Zvi Bodie, N. Kortleve, T. Nijman, & E. Ponds: "Fair Value Accounting and Pension Benefit Guarantees." In Fair Value and Pension Fund Management. Elsevier (2006).
Scott Stewart: “Mobile PDA Communication of Financial Analysis: Lessons for Learning.” IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning. International Association for Development of the Information Society (2006).
Scott Stewart, Jeffrey Heisler, Christopher R. Knittel, & John J. Neumann: “Why Do Institutional Plan Sponsors Hire and Fire Their Investment Managers? Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (forthcoming 2007).
Megan MacGarvie & Jeffrey L. Furman: “Academic Science and the Birth of Industrial Research in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming 2007).
Zvi Bodie: “On Asset-Liability Matching and Federal Deposit and Pension Insurance.” The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review (July 2006) – abstract @ http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/past/2006/
Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton, & Li Jin: “Do a Firm's Equity Returns Reflect the Risk of Its Pension Plan?” Journal of Financial Economics (Winter 2006) - abstract @ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=565261
