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Business and Sustainability: Great Jobs and Current Trends

Feb. 23, 2024

Wondering how to set yourself apart and land a great job in the future? Top finance and consulting employers share how understanding sustainability – including environmental and social risks and opportunities - is key to success in every role, along with developing strong business skills. Join CESR for this panel...

Tainted Executives as Outside Directors

Nov. 1, 2023

Baer, Leah; Ertimur, Yonca; Zhang, Jingjing. 2023. The Accounting Review. 98 (7): 33–59. We examine outside board appointments of executives allegedly involved in governance failures—“tainted” executives—to shed light on appointing firms’ underlying motivations. Less attractive firms and those with greater advising needs are more likely to appoint tainted executives to...

Product-based Approximate Linear Programs for Network Revenue Management

Aug. 22, 2022

Rui Zhang, Saied Samiedaluie, and Dan Zhang. 2022. Product-based Approximate Linear Programs for Network Revenue Management . Operations Research , 70(5):2837-2850. The approximate linear programming approach has received significant attention in the network revenue management literature. A popular approximation in the existing literature is separable piecewise linear (SPL) approximation, which...

The need to validate exogenous shocks: Shareholder derivative litigation, universal demand laws and firm behavior

Feb. 23, 2022

Dain Donelson , Laura Kettell , John McInnis and Sara Toynbee. Journal of Accounting and Economics , 2022, vol. 73, issue 1 Several recent studies argue that the adoption of universal demand (UD) laws represent an exogenous decline in litigation risk by increasing the procedural hurdles associated with shareholder derivative...

Opaque Selling of Multiple Substitutable Products with Finite Inventories

Nov. 27, 2021

Qian Liu, Yongbo Xiao, and Dan Zhang. 2022. Opaque Selling of Multiple Substitutable Products with Finite Inventories . Naval Research Logistics , 69(4):529-549. Opaque selling, in which a seller offers opaque goods (OGs), in addition to physical goods, has been shown to be an effective strategy to segment a market...

An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs

Sept. 17, 2021

Yan Liu, Yacheng Sun, and Dan Zhang. 2021. An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs . Operations Research , 69(6): 1823-1841. We study the effects of redemption hurdles on reward program members’ decision-making and firm profitability. We focus on the popular “Buy X, Get One Free” (BXGO)...

Closing the Gap: A Learning Algorithm for Lost-Sales Inventory Systems with Lead Times

April 27, 2021

Zhang, H., Chao, X., & Shi, C. (2020). Closing the gap: A learning algorithm for lost-sales inventory systems with lead times. Management Science, 66(5), 1962-1980. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3288

How Do Foreclosures Exacerbate Housing Downturns?

April 27, 2021

Guren, A. M., & McQuade, T. J. (2020). How do foreclosures exacerbate housing downturns? The Review of Economic Studies, 87(3), 1331-1364. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaa001

Implications of Non-GAAP earnings for real activities and accounting choices

April 27, 2021

Laurion, H. (2020). Implications of non-GAAP earnings for real activities and accounting choices. Journal of Accounting & Economics, 70(1), 101333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacceco.2020.101333

Explaining firms' earnings announcement stock returns using FactSet and I/B/E/S data feeds

March 23, 2021

Hand, John R. M.; Laurion, Henry; Lawrence, Alastair; Martin, Nicholas. 2021. Review of Accounting Studies . Since 2001, the number of financial statement line items forecasted by analysts and managers that I/B/E/S and FactSet capture in their data feeds has soared. Using this new data, we find that 13 item...

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