The Babson Faculty Research Fund (BFRF) Working Papers are the result of competitive research awards. A majority of the 5-member BFRF faculty committee must accept the paper before it is included in the Working Paper Series. Topics range from areas of business to the liberal arts and humanities.
Working Papers from 2011
Two book chapters for Making Space Tell Time: Race, Colonialism, and Collective Memory in the United States, Kevin Bruyneel
“Intraday Portfolio Return Autocorrelation Dynamics”, Ryan Davies and Dan Bernhardt
Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents: Money in American Drama 1935-2001, Jon Dietrick
Operational Hedging Strategies to Overcome Financial Constraints for Clean Technology Startups, S. Sinan Erzurumlu, Nitin Joglekar, and Fehmi Tanrisever
Will Universal Health Insurance Enhance Entrepreneurial Activity?, Yunwei Gai and Maria Minniti
"Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema, Elizabeth Goldberg
American Literary Cultures: From Ethics to Rights to Justice, Elizabeth Goldberg and James Dawes
Old Questions in New Boxes: Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here and the Problematics of Transnational Witnessing, Elizabeth Goldberg and Alesandra Schultheis
Corporate Bond Initial Public Offerings: Liquidity, Price Dispersion, Spreads, and Dealer Inventory”, Michael Goldstein and Edith Hotchkiss
Disciples: Followers of Charismatic Masters, Kandice Hauf
OLIVE: A Simple Method for Estimating Betas When Factors Are Measured with Error, Gang Hu, Ginger Meng, and Jushan Bai
The New Entrepreneurial Leader: Developing Leaders Who Will Shape Social and Economic Opportunity, Kathleen McKone-Sweet, Danna Greenberg, and James Wilson
Capacity Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Non-Parametric Analysis of State Level Data, Kankana Mukherjee
In October: Twelve Chapters of a Novel, Mary O’Donoghue
Herbaceous plant shifts in photosynthesis and transpiration rates in response to experimentally altered climate regimes in an old-field of New England, Vikki Rodgers, Mike Daley, Suzanne Hoeppner, and Jeff Dukes
Far Away or So Close: The Influence of Counterfeits on Genuine Brand Preference, Keith Wilcox, Sankar Sen, and Juliano Laran
Working Papers from 2010
“New Money” and the Circulating Black Body in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Jon Dietrick
Sustaining Innovation in the Global Corporation: The Role of Managers, Entrepreneurs and Leaders, Philip Dover and Udo Dierk
Production, Process Investment and the Survival of Debt Financed Startup Firms, S. Sinan Erzurumlu, Fehmi Tanrisever, and Nitin Joglekar
American Jews and the Struggle Over Apartheid, Marjorie Feld
Minority Business Start-Up, Survival and Financing in the U.S., Yunwei Gai and Maria Minniti
Measuring Strategic Decision Comprehensiveness: A Scale Development and Validation Study, Bradley George and Jeffrey G. Covin
Plotting the Human: Unsettling the Manichean Allegory in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge and A Distant Shore, Elizabeth Goldberg
Liquidity and the Pricing of Corporate Bond Issues, Michael Goldstein, Edith Hotchkiss, and David Pedersen
Use of Emerging Information Technologies to Increase Innovator Productivity, Steven Gordon and Monideepa Tarafdar
What to expect when she’s expecting: Work-life and identity integration challenges and opportunities of “soon-to-be” working professional mothers, Danna Greenberg, Jamie J. Ladge, and Judith A. Clair
Reversion of RNOA and its Components, Robert Halsey
Do Stock Splits Increase Information Production? Evidence from Institutional Trading, Gang Hu, Thomas J. Chemmanur, and Jiekun Huang
Trading by Crossing, Gang Hu, Jennifer Conrad, and Sunil Wahal
Analysis of putative DNA barcodes for identification and distinction of native and invasive plant species, Shari Laprise and Vikki Rodgers
The Role of Complementary Resources in the Development of E-supply Chains and the Firm’s Performance: An Exploratory Analysis of Secondary Data, Yoo-Taek Lee, Kathleen E. McKone-Sweet, and Sung-Yong Ryu
Music to Our Ears: New Market Creation and Creative Influences in the Popular Music Industry, Erik Noyes, Sal Parise, and I. Elaine Allen
The Strange Arrangement of Dreams, Mary O’Donoghue
Upper Rooms, Mary O’Donoghue
Two Chapters of Simulation and Optimization Modeling in Finance, Dessislava Pachamanova and Frank J. Fabozzi
Brand Protection at Coca-Cola --It’s the Real Thing, Ross Petty
“Brandwidth” Gone Wild: Restoring a More Competitive Balance to Trademark Law for the Benefit of Consumers, Ross Petty
Is Marketing Ever Too “Pushy?” A Comparison of US and EU Approaches to Consumer Unfairness, Ross Petty
Super Hero®, Ross Petty
Tallgrass Prairie: A Work in Process, Mary Pinard
How the Order of Sampled Experiential Products Affects Choice, Anne Roggeveen, Dipayan Biswas, and Dhruv Grewal
How Far Will You Travel to Save Money? The Moderating Effects of Product, Anne Roggeveen, Howard Marmorstein, Praveen Kopalle, and Dhruv Grewal
Advertising a Firm’s Emotions: Appraisal Theory and Messages of Corporate Social Responsibility, Anne Roggeveen and Anirban Mukhopadhyay
Philosophy and the Double, Brian Seitz
Labeling matched sums with a condition at distance two, Denise Sakai Troxell and Sarah Spence Adams
Working Papers from 2009
Intermodern Travel: J.B. Priestley’s English and American Journeys in Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain, Lisa Colletta
The Institutions and Unfulfilled Vision of the Sami, Stephen Deets
Impressions of Ebru, Lisa DiCarlo
Blood Money and Bad Pennies: Monstrous Money in Sidney Kingsley’s Dead End, Jon Dietrick
Can Empirical Demand Models Assist in CON Comparative Reviews? A Case Study in Florida, Yunwei Gai and Gary M. Fournier
Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights, Elizabeth Goldberg
Of Manifestos and Manifesting: Theorizing and Teaching Literature and Human Rights, Elizabeth Goldberg
Purchasing IPOs with commissions: Theoretical predictions and empirical results, Michael Goldstein, Paul Irvine, and W. Andrew Puckett
Does Policy Matter? Organizational Context and Flexible Work Arrangement Negotiations, Danna Greenberg and Elaine M. Landry
Designing Fair Allocations for Carrier Alliances, Lori Houghtalen, Ozlem Ergun, and Joel Sokol
The Market for Shareholder-Voting Rights Around Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from Institutional Daily Trading and Voting, Gang Hu, Jennifer E. Bethel, and Qinghai Wang
The Role of Technology-Mediated Networks in Knowledge Management, Bala Iyer and Salvatore Parise
Growth Aspirations as a Function of Entrepreneurial Motivations and Perceptions, Donna Kelley
Introduction to Top of the World: The American Success Myth in Film, Julie Levinson
Implementing a Lean Enterprise Approach to Achieve Business Excellence, Dennis Mathaisel and Clare L. Comm
Project Culture: The Popular Arts of Public Housing Projects, Jeffrey Melnick
Aesthetic Reflection: Hegel, Art and the Citizen's Disposition, Lydia Moland
Skelper: Four Chapters of a Novel, Mary O'Donoghue
Song Net for an Estuary, Mary Pinard
Economies of Scale or Agency Concerns? Evidence from Side-By-Side Managed Mutual Funds, Mark Potter, Richard T. Bliss, and Christopher Schwarz
The "Co-Creation Effect": The Impact of Using Co-Creation as a Service Recovery Strategy, Anne Roggeveen, Michael Tsiros, and Dhruv Grewal
Dasein Lost in Iroquoia, Brian Seitz
A Typology of Social Entrepreneurs: Motives, search Processes and Ethical Challenges, Joel Shulman, Shaker A. Zahra, Eric Gedajlovic, and Donald O. Neubaum
On Island Sequences of Labelings with a Condition at Distance Two, Denise Sakai Troxell, Sarah Spence Adams, Alex Trazkovich, and Bradford Westgate
Atlas of Ancient Nubia entries, Janice Yellin
Working Papers from 2008
The Leadership Profile of Established Women Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts: 2000-2006, I. Elaine Allen
Hierarchy and Hybridity: The Silent Role of Colonialism in Shaping the American Racial Order, Kevin Bruyneel
Book chapter: Forest Lawn, Hollywood, and America, Lisa Colletta
Book chapters, Voluntary Exiles: British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-65, Lisa Colletta
Funds of Hedge Funds Portfolio Selection, Ryan Davies
May CPAs Use Exculpatory Clauses in their Letters of Engagement?, Craig Ehrlich
Cross-Currents/Emerging Paradigms, Elizabeth Goldberg
The Role of Information Technology in Supporting Business Innovation, Steven R. Gordon
Sponsor or Supervisor? The Impact of Innovation Project Uncertainty on the Direct Managerial Role, Donna J. Kelley
The Role of Technology Resources and Internationalization in SME, Donna J. Kelley
The Leadership Profile of Established Women Entrepreneurs in Massachusetts: 2000-2006, Nan S. Langowitz
Investigation of the Role of RASSF1A in the Cell Death Response in Cancer Models, Shari Laprise
Aquitania: a Poetry Collection, Mary O'Donoghue
Generalized Deviation Portfolio Allocation: Relation to Utility Theory and Empirical Evidence, Dessislava Pachamanova
Initial Interest Confusion: A Consumer Protection Perspective, Ross Petty
How Does the Presence of a Guarantee Cue Impact Evaluations of a Retailer?: It Depends on Cue Typicality and the Reputation Cue’s Valence, Anne Roggeveen
On the Hole Index of L(2,1)-Labelings of r-Regular Graphs, Denise Sakai Troxell, Sarah Spence Adams, Matthew Tesch, Bradford Westgate, and Cody Wheeland
Working Papers from 2007
A Comprehensive Look at Online Education in United States, I. Elaine Allen
Political Satire and Postmodern Irony in the Age of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Lisa Colletta
Using Matched Samples to Test for Differences in Trade Execution Costs, Ryan Davies and San Soo Kim
Losing Our Religion: Turkey’s New Christians, Lisa DiCarlo
Lillian Wald: A Biography, Marjorie Feld
Costly Arbitrage and Idiosyncratic Risk: Evidence from Short Sellers, Gang Hu, Ying Duan, and R. David McLean
Tape Painting: Evidence from Daily Trades by Institutional Investors, Gang Hu, R. David McLean, and Erik Sirri
Network Disequilibrium in the Post Deregulation U.S. Airline Industry: an Argument for Re-regulation?, Sayed A. Hussain
Success Reassessed: Ambitious Women/Midlife Men, Julie Levinson
A Taxonomy of Supply Chain Capability, Kathleen McKone-Sweet and Yoo-Taek Lee
Not Their Muse: Irish-Language Poetry in Translation, Cross-Gender Linguistic Ventriloquism, and the Problem of Pharaoh’s Daughter, Mary O'Donoghue
Small Home Truths: Stories and a Novella, Mary O'Donoghue
Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management (3 chapters), Dessislava Pachamanova, Frank Fabozzi, Sergio Focardi, and Petter Kolm