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- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
consistent with the proposition that employed mothers provide non-traditional gender role models to their children, liberalizing gender attitudes and transmitting life skills for managing competing responsibilities, increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
feeling high rental prices would lock local residents and businesses out of the market. Hollywood and Highland or Sunset and Vine? Turner planned to make his decision soon. Details the economics of both projects. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Francesca Gino Abstract—Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
undertaking traditional value creation activities—from sourcing to engaging the poor in production to distribution and sales—in low-income markets. To the degree that these ventures empower the poor—either by improving their quality of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
health, safety, and environmental policies under Phase III, all designed to make life less risky for the average citizen. What explains these changes? My sense is that as Americans grew ever more affluent (particularly in the twentieth... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Brian Kenny: In September of 2013, President Obama sent shock waves through American higher education by announcing plans to create a federal rating system that would allow parents and students to easily compare colleges. He said he would... View Details
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
the compact arrangement of buildings, efficient use of water and power, and deployment of transit that reduces congestion. Investment and urban planning in three Asian cities are profiled as illustrations. Two sample proformas featuring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
being only one of three retailers to outperform Wal-Mart in both revenue and profit growth in that time. Life in a Dollar General store paints a vivid picture of the roots and historical focus of the company. Opportunistic buying has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
a challenge for researchers who wish to study them and for the governments, business leaders, and citizens striving to improve life quality in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace