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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
- 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
- Research & Ideas
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
- 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
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
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
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
this industry. But transferring $10 billion from one legal entity to another does not fit within that broader regulatory entrepreneurship framework. That’s arguably one of the most egregious acts in the history of white-collar crime and makes even Bernie Madoff’s... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
both the relatively short lifespan of shale wells (production, for example, has declined in wells in the Bakken fields in North Dakota by 85 percent in just three years, compared to 20-year terms in more traditional wells) and the... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
use as little as three barrels of water to produce one barrel of beer, compared to seven barrels as the industry average. Seeking financial viability As farming meets big data, there’s even more opportunity for sustainable change. Thanks... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
we’ve greatly improved options and opportunities for our women employees, who tend to have more traditional roles in companies here compared with the United States. All of these ideas — innovative for Japan — have been well received.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Relaxo—Analyzing Performance Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall Abstract—People often feel malicious envy, a destructive interpersonal emotion, when... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation ranks fifth, after more conventional concerns such as attracting and retaining top talent and the regulatory environment. Boards’ abilities to foster innovation clearly fall short when compared with their other activities.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
discusses the challenges of gathering cases for business education, as compared to the field of law. Donham, Wallace B., Dean’s Report, “ Graduate School of Business Administration ,” Reports of the President and the Treasurer of Harvard... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
field is also pronounced: A recent report by Catalyst, which studies women in business, found that only 18 percent of newly minted women MBAs worldwide take managerial jobs at tech companies (including information technology among a wider field) as View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
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