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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are overleveraged. The middle class... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
States—about one in six private-sector jobs, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. While largely disregarded by VCs, the Great Lakes and Southeast regions lead the nation in manufacturing employment, according to the US Bureau of View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
more than sufficient gains in sales to satisfy investors. The delivery routes proved a blessing in disguise, given still-tight real estate and labor markets, and more of the growth planned for 2001 focused on adding routes than on opening... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
districts with high unemployment rates are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action if the incumbent congressman serves on a committee that oversees the SEC. These findings suggest that voters' interests are reflected in SEC... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The large variation in costs among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
competitiveness in the face of the territorial extent of the United States and its ability to integrate a dynamic industrial sector with ample raw material supplies, agriculture commodities, markets, and labor into one national economy.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
competitiveness. We also include a number of special chapters focusing, among other things, on environmental regulations and competitiveness, a paper that was authored by Professor Porter and Professor Daniel Esty on innovation and also on View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
from 1970 to 2007, we find that better-performing teams are less likely to hire minorities to fill lower-level and mid-level coaching positions (as predicted by prior literature on labor queues), but that such teams are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had not met the necessary performance measures under the compensation plan. Proxy advisors RiskMetrics and the British Association of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Corporation) equivalent insures 401(k) assets—these two literatures came to the same conclusion: Locate highly taxed assets inside of tax-deferred accounts. Jim and I came in to this literature from a different angle. Rather than taking a... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
while the Explorers Club expedition formed, so had its geopolitics. At home, any hope that the American economy would rebound after Black Tuesday had disappeared as wages declined and unemployment grew, plunging the nation into what would... View Details