We conducted a longitudinal, quasi-experimental study in which we explored the effects of corporate sustainability on firm financial performance. We compared financial performance in 494 facilities of a large financial firm by comparing those that received third-party certification for their environmental practices (i.e., LEED certification) to those that have not. Analyses revealed three key f...

“Trolls” individuals who engage in malicious behavior are a common occurrence within online communities. Yet simply banning accounts associated with trolls is often ineffective as individuals may register new accounts under pseudonyms and resume their activity. In this paper, we demonstrate how this can be addressed through a behavioral trace. Specifically, we show that by analyzing the posts o...

To this day, most generative discussions of wh-constructions assume that Superiority Effects (SEs) are the norm, to be explained by principles of UG, and that SUVs are a secondary phenomenon, to be analyzed via D-Linking, or some other mechanism peripheral to the central concerns of grammatical theory. In the alternative approach to SUVs considered here, examples like (1b) and (2) are all treat...

Current banking systems do not aim to protect user privacy. Purchases made from a single bank account can be linked to each other by many parties. This could be addressed in a straightforward way by generating unlinkable credentials from a single master credential using Camenisch and Lysyanskaya’s algorithm; however, if bank accounts are taxable, some report must be made to the tax authority ab...

3 We integrate appealing features of Markowitz’s mean-variance portfolio theory (MVT) 4 and Shefrin and Statman’s behavioral portfolio theory (BPT) into a new mental accounting 5 (MA) framework. Features of the MA framework include an MA structure of portfolios, 6 a definition of risk as the probability of failing to reach the threshold level in each mental 7 account, and attitudes toward risk ...

This paper presents a Web-based system that automates some processes to connect machines to a network, create accounts, mount remote home directories, set mailing lists, and so on by cooperating with multiple servers, and describes its implementation. By introducing this novel system, a lot of task has been reduced compared with the conventional administrative tasks, and it has become easier fo...

Inheritance reasoning has frequently been characterized by algorithms designed to operate on inheritance networks, or collections of links. While the intended meaning of links in a network is understood, formal semantic accounts of such networks are somewhat troublesome, as are semantic accounts of the inference process. We suggest that links be interpreted as sentences in the conditional logic...

Salespeople play a vital role in creating and maintaining buyer-seller relationships (Shepherd 1999). Salespeople are responsible for making initial contact, determining client needs, and identifying products or services to satisfy needs as well as providing follow-up support services (Pelham 2002). To make this happen, salespeople engage in certain behaviors to develop and nurture long term re...