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  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

advantage of their US work compared to prior settings was that they could test many variants of this formulation and use auxiliary datasets to validate the robustness of their methodology. Kerr and Pekkala Kerr calculated that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

that after an NPE lawsuit, a company on average produced fewer future patents and invested less in research and development than comparable companies, hurting chances for future success. If the majority of NPEs are, in fact, patent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
  • 02 Jul 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

flaws." Once the excitement fades, a different type of leadership is essential. Bill Eickhoff would compare Jobs, Bezos, etc. to Ford, Edison, etc. "No one ever raves about their so-called 'leadership' style. These men were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

complicated: the use of many words per sentence that featured a high percentage of complex, multisyllabic words, requiring a higher level of education to understand. These communications were then compared to capital market reaction... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2007
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The Changing Face of American Innovation

on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to agricultural machinery. Immigrant contributions are especially strong in high-tech... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology
  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

only 1 or 2, Roger Manley commented that "the thought that management is being 'deprofessionalized' strikes me as a bit of a stretch." Patrick O'Rourke added, "Let's forget about striving to gain acceptance as a profession in the traditional sense, as we... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

algorithms to help distribute refugees: The first aims to help refugees find jobs fast. In the United States, this employment-focused algorithm achieved 96 percent efficiency, compared to about 70 percent without AI. Looking at data from... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 16 Jul 2024
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Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

answer that question, the researchers compared the performance of companies that had undergone some level of digital transformation with those that didn’t. They found that: Expanding IT budgets increased hiring by 11 percent and sales by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

The role of private equity in Japan is also explored and allows students to compare the Japanese merger and acquisition market to that of the U.S. and Europe. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

I love to see if there's something that I care about—a company I've written a case on or an issue that I've covered—and I love to compare the articles and see what they share and what's different. I also really like IR magazine, which is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 19 Oct 2015
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Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

like Mills, stressed the importance of having outside researchers analyze agency data. “You would be surprised at the limited resources we have to analyze the data, compared to the way that the academic community can analyze it for us.”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply an elasticity of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at least in the early years of the nineteenth century. The whaling industry was one of the earliest to grapple with complex issues in relation to the provision of high-risk investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

has a positive and significant effect on rainfall insurance adoption, increasing take-up from 8% to 16%. Only one marketing intervention, the money-back guarantee, has a consistent and large effect on farmers' purchase decisions. This guarantee, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

default on his loan. Having now built three models, Figel compares them to determine which model is most effective at classifying borrowers correctly then uses that model to determine how to invest in a portfolio of loans. Students... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

lack “vision” compared to men. Meanwhile, the secretaries, as they were then called, were a support system, and I saw that those support functions were self-perpetuating. For instance, one thing I noticed was praise addiction. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-402 Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

ratings for all restaurants and compare them to the arithmetic averages displayed by Yelp. Depending on how we interpret the downward trend of reviews within a restaurant, we find 19.1%-41.38% of the simple average ratings are more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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