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  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

in West Africa, 1950-1970 Author:Stephanie Decker Periodical:Business History Review 81 (spring 2007): 59-86 Abstract Development, modernity, and industrialization became dominant themes in corporate advertising in Africa in the 1950s and remained View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

complicated when a single plate or package of food contains ingredients from multiple countries.” Prevalence of food-related claims: Food safety claims, which are often ambiguous and even unreliable in some cases, attract more attention... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

venture capital finance. Using a theoretical model and rich data, we are able to both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in recent years—an increased prevalence of investors who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

University. In the United States, the immigration of skilled workers is particularly prevalent among firms in the technology fields. In 2008, immigrants represented 16 percent of the US workforce with a bachelor's education, and they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

an era in which we are told that jobs are being enhanced by information technology. The second is an article by Jeffrey Pfeffer pointing out the prevalence of "green" initiatives by business organizations. Invariably these... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5

focuses on the most sensational scams (e.g., Enron, Bernard Madoff), less attention is given to more prevalent "ordinary" unethical behavior-unethical actions committed by people who value morality but behave unethically when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

tend to be more extreme (favorable or unfavorable) than other reviews, and the prevalence of suspicious reviews has grown significantly over time. Second, a restaurant is more likely to commit review fraud when its reputation is weak,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

Institutional Logics By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines Authors:Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr Abstract Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

of Manufacturing Clusters By: Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract—Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing clusters. While some of them... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

review 142 empirical studies, divided by organizational form into (1) industry studies, (2) firm studies, and (3) studies of open collaborative projects. The industry and firm studies indicate that mirroring is a prevalent pattern but not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

"financed payouts" are widespread, persistent, prevalent both among dividend-paying and repurchasing firms, and large in magnitude. Standard interpretations of agency or signaling theories are unable to explain this behavior. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

corruption per se does not prevent rapid economic development, although it does distort it. Modern Turkey has achieved great economic progress whatever the prevalence of corruption. World Bank data shows that Turkey’s per capita income... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

referring users to all manner of other sites, and in light of striking market concentration among search engines. Read the paper: http://www.nls.ac.in/ojs-2.2.3/index.php/IJLT/article/viewFile/92/72 Measuring the Prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

highlight the prevalence of discrimination in online marketplaces, suggesting an important unintended consequence of a seemingly routine mechanism for building trust. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2377353 When to Sell... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

after their teams have won more games. This study demonstrates an important relationship between performance feedback and racial bias and suggests that even in highly competitive industries, managerial bias may be prevalent in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

all three were important across the period studied, their relative prevalence varied. For example, gender bias peaked as a concern in 1991, underrepresentation dominated the picture in the late 1990s, and work-family conflict as a concern... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost, due to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

that are more responsible socially and environmentally. Q: How prevalent are vanguard companies? A small parade? A: It's a growing parade, but it's not clear yet whether they are the exception or the rule—that's true of every change. And... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne