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  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

start-up firm in Silicon Valley when one of his employees decided to quit and go work for a direct competitor down the street. "I told him, 'Hey, you can't do that. Didn't we make you sign a non-compete?' " Marx recalls. "He kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 14 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Texas. Users can search on variables such as emission level or health hazard level, rated from 0 to 9, with 9 being worst. By typing in 7, 8, or 9, they can see highest polluters indicated all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

portal is a tool for everyday life, something they click on dozens of times a day. But unlike a telephone or a directory, it is an intelligent, radically interactive tool that can customize itself to each user's needs, building a relationship that's View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

article has changed minds, but I do hope it encourages people to open their minds to consider new possibilities. Things that were once seen as relatively safe are now understood as likely to be quite dangerous, such as coal burning's... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this difference arises from the willingness of rating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the scholars who do the science, where... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

has proved to be as controversial as was public ownership. The huge investment in infrastructure has to be paid for one way or the other, a fact that government officials in the developing world tended rather wistfully to overlook. Moreover, private investors demanded... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

than half of its call center employees quit only a few months after training. "Wipro presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

better informed, more discerning, thoughtful practitioner. Cultivating the courage and patience to understand others' worldviews and experiences is labor that will enable you to operate differently at work. Gathering information in an effort to become more discerning... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

people web development for fun, and getting them amazing jobs and careers. I was blown away. That’s when the light bulb went off. Since then, we’ve done fairly well. We’ve trained over 500 graduates and maintain a 99 percent job placement View Details
Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

design of our establishment-level analysis, our methods for distinguishing between leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and other private equity transactions, bankruptcy rates among firms acquired in LBOs, their assertion that we undercount large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Johnson. They found that OSHA inspections not only lowered injury rates but also saved companies money in the long run by cutting down on workers’ compensation costs. “It was an important study to show that OSHA works and doesn’t kill... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

thought that their technical knowledge of best manufacturing practices (to take one example) was sufficiently developed that processes simply needed to be tweaked to fit local conditions. More often, it turns out, they have to be reworked View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

and Heidi Liu Abstract— Eleven experiments provide evidence that people have a tendency to “shoot the messenger,” deeming innocent bearers of bad news unlikeable. In a preregistered lab experiment, participants rated messengers who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

What's the Word?

are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid, too, with Congress assessing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

Room to Grow

inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to increased local food production. “Their work is View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
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