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Working Papers
By: Dennis A. Yao
Anton, James J. and Dennis A. Yao (2011). "Delay as Agenda Setting."
- Abstract: In this paper we examine a class of... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
By: Hui Chen, Katherine Gunny and Karthik Ramanna
Prior literature raises a "puzzle" of high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of...
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Chen, Hui, Katherine Gunny, and Karthik Ramanna. "Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-050, December 2014.
- 30 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
- 22 Jun 2015
- News
How To Stop Working All The Time And Get More Done
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
The Secret to Making Anxiety Work in Your Favor
- 03 Jun 2016
- Video
Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work
- 23 Sep 2014
- News
We Cool? Your Guide to Avoiding Fights at Work
- 09 Jun 2016
- Video
Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work
- 24 Jun 2015
- News
A new study gives us another reason to celebrate working mothers
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are...
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Keywords:
Asset Pricing;
Investment Portfolio;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy. "The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-055, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007.)
- 2011
- Book
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer
The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine...
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Keywords:
Creativity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Groups and Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Working Conditions;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Productivity;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Happiness;
Perception;
Trust;
Time Management;
Resource Allocation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steve J. Kramer. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
- 03 Dec 2020
- News
Use Remote Work to Revitalize the Cities That Need It Most
- 17 Oct 2012
- News
Small Ways to Ignite Creativity and Joy at Work
- 07 Sep 2022
- News
Bored at Work? Learn to Manage It by Putting It to Work
- Fall 2017
- Article
An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Markets Private Equity
By: Josh Lerner and Mark Baker
The authors use transaction-level data to compare the dispersion of private equity (PE) returns in emerging markets (EMs) to the same in developed markets (DMs). They regress within-market absolute deviation from the mean on an EM indicator and controls. They find...
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Lerner, Josh, and Mark Baker. "An Empirical Analysis of Investment Return Dispersion in Emerging Markets Private Equity." Journal of Private Equity 20, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 15–24.
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write....
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- 30 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Temptation at Work
- 12 Apr 2016
- News