Adam Grant is a renowned psychologist, best-selling author, and top-rated professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His books, including “Give Take”, “Originals”, “Option B”, “Power Moves” “Think Again” have sold millions copies, been translated into 45 languages, earned him #1 spot on New York Times bestseller list. As one TED’s most popular speakers, with over 30 million vi...

This essay explores the best-selling American author Edith Wharton’s status as a bibliophile and book collector. It draws comparisons between her tastes collector those of some neighbors, especially residing in Berkshires area western Massachusetts around 1900. focuses, particular, on rare, first-edition copy play Esther (1689), by Jean Racine; Wharton owned this so did Choate family. As such, ...

Heal is at Columbia Business School and Columbia School of International Affairs, [email protected]. Kunreuther is at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]. We are especially grateful to Larry Samuelson for assistance with this paper, and also grateful to Doug Bernheim, Vince Crawford and two referees for constructive comments. The views expressed he...

Acknowledgements. Tyler Ernst provided excellent research assistance on this paper. I am grateful to Forrest Briscoe, Peter Cappelli, Olivier Chatain, John Paul Ferguson, Vit Henisz, Isabel FernandezMateo, Henrich Greve, Mauro Guillen, Sarah Kaplan, Katherine Klein, John Paul MacDuffie, Paul Osterman, Nancy Rothbard, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Valery Yakubovich, Paul Adler, two anonymous reviewer...

For further reading: D. W. Baker: Cattle Mange and the Other Diseases Known Commonly as Barn Itchy 36 pages, Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University, 1946. E. W. Baker and G. W. Wharton: An Introduction to Acarology, 465 pages. New York, Macmillan Company. 1952. Joseph H. Camin and Wm. M. Rogoff: Mites Ajfecting Domesticated Mammals. South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 10,...

Vol. XLVIII (February 2011), 1 –12 *Uri Simonsohn is Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (e-mail: [email protected]). The author thanks On Amir, Gerard Cachon, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, Devin Pope, Justin Sydnor, and the anonymous JMR reviewers for valuable comments and suggestions. All remaining errors are the a...

Treatment of ulcerative colitis with betamethasone phosphate enemas was found to cause suppression of the adrenal cortex, so that absorption of betamethasone from the rectum can be inferred; no suppression occurred in similar patients treated with prednisolone phosphate enemas (Matts, Wharton, Kelleher, and Walters, 1963). In order to determine whether any rectal absorption of prednisolone does...