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  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding geographically through branches, in part,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists formulate and think about their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

was in crisis—with bank suspensions running at near record levels. At the same time, the broader economy was sputtering, and U.S. gold reserves had come under severe pressure after Britain abandoned its gold standard in mid-September. As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

and other economies after World War Two. Yet the historical and management literatures have been poorly integrated. This article seeks to address some of the issues raised in the management literature by contributing a longitudinal case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great cost to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson Abstract—Recent contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

networks, encouraged cable's growth, under the theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." FCC Chairman Nicholas Johnson, an ardent supporter of the wired cities concept, championed a series of FCC actions helpful to the... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

India, China), but they overlook significant ethnic markets within the United States. For example, the combined African-American and Hispanic markets in the U.S. are larger than the economies of all but 13 countries, and more than 2... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

developed economies and then turns to developing countries, covering the following topics: farmers' adoption of AI, how AI affects their decision to invest in risky assets, and the extent to which AI helps farmers smooth income and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

could reshape capitalism and its relationship to society. It could also drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy as it opens managers' eyes to immense human needs that must be met, large new markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

incumbents do not achieve this objective because they encourage the survival and expansion of low-type firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54520 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy A View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

examples. The article claims that by focusing on agency, learning, intentionality, and demand-side factors, our approach complements and also challenges extant sometimes static, supply-side, agent-agnostic theories of the multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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