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- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
is that the types of skills needed are constantly evolving, so many employers prefer workers with a strong foundation in a variety of skills. This allows them to learn quickly and adapt to whatever new skills are required of them. Country...
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by Rachel Layne
- 18 Apr 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Popular Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 19 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition
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by Gary P. Pisano
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Winter 2013
- Article
The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators
By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do...
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Intellectual Property;
Platforms;
Intermediaries;
Aggregator;
Patents;
Digital Platforms;
Marketplace Matching;
Distribution Channels
Hagiu, Andrei, and David B. Yoffie. "The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 45–66.
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
projects to allow time for reflection and utilize meeting time most effectively Encourage employees to “unplug.” Set expectations for standard work times across time zones. Related Resources White Paper The...
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- 24 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO and CFO Career Penalties to Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Credit Supply Channel of Monetary Policy Tightening and Its Distributional Impacts
By: Joshua Bosshardt, Marco Di Maggio, Ali Kakhbod and Amir Kermani
This paper studies how tightening monetary policy transmits to the economy through the mortgage market and sheds new light on the distributional consequences at both the individual and regional levels. We find that credit supply factors, specifically restrictions on...
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Bosshardt, Joshua, Marco Di Maggio, Ali Kakhbod, and Amir Kermani. "The Credit Supply Channel of Monetary Policy Tightening and Its Distributional Impacts." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31464, July 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- 07 Aug 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective
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by Geoffrey G. Jones
- August 2012 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
By: Geoffrey Jones and Lana Ghanem
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his...
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Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
History;
Government and Politics;
Global Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
Middle East
Jones, Geoffrey, and Lana Ghanem. "Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 813-052, August 2012. (Revised October 2022.)
- August 2013
- Article
The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity
By: Michael Ewens, Charles Jones and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and venture capitalist to show how it alters the interaction between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the...
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Price;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Contracts;
Investment;
Competition;
Agency Theory;
Investment Return;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Theory;
Diversification
Ewens, Michael, Charles Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 8 (August 2013): 1854–1889.
- 2013
- Article
Beyond Alternating Permutations: Pattern Avoidance in Young Diagrams and Tableaux
By: Nihal Gowravaram and Ravi Jagadeesan
We investigate pattern avoidance in alternating permutations and generalizations thereof. First, we study pattern avoidance in an alternating analogue of Young diagrams. In particular, we extend Babson-West’s notion of shape-Wilf equivalence to apply to alternating...
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Pattern Avoidance;
Alternating Permutations;
Descent Type Permutations;
Wilf Equivalence;
Shape-Wilf Equivalence;
Mathematical Methods
Gowravaram, Nihal, and Ravi Jagadeesan. "Beyond Alternating Permutations: Pattern Avoidance in Young Diagrams and Tableaux." #P17. Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 20, no. 4 (2013).
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
between your life and your work, it's almost inevitable that we see these blurring lines,” she says. The research team detailed their findings in the working paper Collaborating During Coronavirus: The...
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by Danielle Kost
- 2012
- Discussion Paper
Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s...
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Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization
By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms...
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Trade;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy
Guadalupe, Maria, and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-067, November 2008.
- 2009
- Chapter
Entry, Exit and Labour Productivity in U.K. Retailing: Evidence from Micro Data
By: Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun
The paper investigates the U.K. retail sector using store and firm-level data between 1998 and 2003. First, we present the first exhaustive description of the U.K. retail sector using micro data sources. Second, in the spirit of Foster, Haltiwanger, and Krizan (2002),...
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Business Ventures;
Market Entry and Exit;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Productivity;
Retail Industry;
United Kingdom
Haskel, Jonathan, and Raffaella Sadun. "Entry, Exit and Labour Productivity in U.K. Retailing: Evidence from Micro Data." Chap. 7 in Producer Dynamics: New Evidence from Micro Data, edited by Timothy Dunne, J. Bradford Jensen, and Mark J. Roberts. University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Working Paper version.)
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the Venture Capital Industry
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
This paper proposes a straightforward way of differentiating between central network positions that confer power from those that confer status. I argue that actors achieve high status by receiving numerous exchanges from actors who receive numerous exchanges from...
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the Venture Capital Industry." March 2007.
- Research Summary
Technology and Knowledge Transfer in the Evolution of China’s Machine Industry
This work-in-progress provides a historical perspective on the role of foreign companies as providers of machinery equipment and facilitators of technology transfer in China from the last decade of the 19th century to the early 1950s. The project focuses on...
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DEA Model with Shared Resources and Efficiency Decomposition
By: Yao Chen, Juan Du, H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proved to be an excellent approach for measuring performance of decision making units (DMUs) that use multiple inputs to generate multiple outputs. In many real world scenarios, DMUs have a two-stage network process with shared input...
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Chen, Yao, Juan Du, H. David Sherman, and Joe Zhu. "DEA Model with Shared Resources and Efficiency Decomposition." European Journal of Operational Research 207, no. 1 (November 2010): 339–349.
- 24 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries