2016 Projects

Division	Project Title	Faculty sponsor(s)
Accounting	Corporate Transparency and Firm Communication	Anne Heinrichs
Accounting	Shareholder Voting: International Evidence	Fabrizio Ferri
DRO	Process Improvement Methodology: Some Cases and Results	Nelson Fraiman
DRO	Simulation of Hospital Outcomes	Carrie Chan
DRO	Public Housing Assignment Policy	Jacob Leshno
Economics	Effect of internet on firms and economic activity in Africa; Bureaucrats and local economic activity in India; Quality upgrading and relational contracts in Peru	Jonas Hjort
Economics	Innovation in Culinary Techniques: A Quantitative Analysis	Amit Khanelwal
Economics	Firm's Coursening of Information	Charles Angelucci
Economics	The Real Effects of Electronic Wage Payments: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Salaried Factory Workers	Emily Breza
Finance	Book Project on Corporate Finance Theory	Patrick Bolton Neng Wang
Finance	When long-term incentives lead to short-term actions	Wei Jiang
Finance/DRO	Directional implications of word occurances for market sentiment - association with risk for emerging markets	Charles Calomiris Paul Glasserman Harry Mamaysky
Management	The Importance of Emphasizing vs. De-emphasizing Difference for Cross-Group Friendships	Modupe Akinola
Management	Exploration and Explotation of Entrepreneurial Spawning: Evidence from the Hedge Fund Industry	Evan Rawley
Management	Creating a Census of entrepreneurial outcomes	Bruce Kogut
Management	Open Data, Entrepreneurship and Networks	Sheena Iyengar
Management	How power, passion, and diversity affect both personal and professional aspects of life	Adam Galinsky
Management	Mentors as Signaling Agents: When and how mentoring helps women to reach high-level leadership positions in companies / Can Similarities Help Overcome Racial Boundaries? Working with the differences among us to boost social cohesion and performance	Kathy Phillips
Marketing	Ephemeral Messaging /Indulging from a distance: Farsightedness and reconciling myopic and hyperopic preferences	Ran Kivetz
Marketing	Predicting Churn from Social Media Data	Eva Ascarza