Labor Force Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494 Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract users via Cournot-style... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

corporate participation in programs that lack certification but instead incorporate civil society scrutiny can, under certain conditions, serve as a credible signal of environmental management capabilities by discouraging firms with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

has an empirical paper presenting evidence that households that face higher labor income risk are somewhat less likely to choose tax-efficient asset location strategies, consistent with his theoretical model. The jury is still out on how... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

restaurants to engage in review fraud. We then turn our attention to negative review fraud and find that increased competition by similar restaurants is the driving force behind it. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2293164... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace. Read the article:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give casewriting workshop participants practice writing those sections. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

new CEO at IBM, led a conversation in which all 400,000 employees could participate on a Web chat over three days about what the company's values should be for the 21st century, a "values jam." People were in a conversation.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, forcing a massive federal bailout. And the Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

owners to improve the effectiveness of these promotional investments. They are particularly attractive to challenger brands, because targeted coupon activities are extremely scalable—they can participate for a varying number of brands for... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

may operate differently. Across five studies, we demonstrate that individuals interacting with grateful counterparts become more likely to engage in selfish behavior during competitive interactions. In Studies 1a and 1b, participants who... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a theoretical tension for group decision-making between the benefits of information aggregation and a cost from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements. DrumNet collapsed in this region... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Jack." German entrepreneurs were autocratic and paternalist, but it is by no means clear that they had a particular lock on this sort of behavior. How many American CEOs would like to have labor representatives on their boards? We... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

includes practical details on how to facilitate the course, templates for grading class participation and the course paper, and conceptual overviews of topics such as how "morality" is defined in the course. "My goal is for... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

General Management Program Harvard Business School Note 407-022 Discusses the importance of living room groups (eight participants who share a living room) at Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program developing into effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne