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      Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

      By: Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr
      Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demographics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Employment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry
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      Glaeser, Edward L., and William R. Kerr. "Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?" Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 623–663.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

      By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
      This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; United States
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      Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15023, June 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

      By: Mihir A. Desai
      Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A. "Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-107, March 2009.
      • February 2009
      • Teaching Note

      Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)

      By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
      Teaching Note for 709458. View Details
      Keywords: Health; Employees; Cost; Policy; Situation or Environment; Innovation and Invention; Contracts; Programs; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; United States
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      Porter, Michael E., and Jennifer F Baron. "Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 709-483, February 2009.
      • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
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      Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy

      By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
      Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the years following World War II. Over the ensuing decades, Pitney Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes... View Details
      Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Corporate Strategy
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      Porter, Michael E., and Jennifer F Baron. "Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 709-458, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)
      • January 2009 (Revised March 2011)
      • Case

      Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff

      By: Anthony Mayo, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki
      The case presents a biographical portrait of Yoshiko Shinohara who founded Tempstaff in 1973, one of the largest temporary staffing agencies in Japan. In addition to chronicling Shinohara's entrepreneurial activities, the case provides contextual background about the... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Employment Industry; Japan
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      Mayo, Anthony, Masako Egawa, and Mayuka Yamazaki. "Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff." Harvard Business School Case 409-049, January 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
      • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
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      Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction

      By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
      A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important... View Details
      Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Contracts; Crisis Management; Construction Industry
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      Macomber, John D., Christopher M. Gordon, and Ben Creo. "Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction." Harvard Business School Case 209-099, January 2009. (Revised April 2009.)
      • 06 Nov 2008
      • Conference Presentation

      Quality Management & Job Quality: How ISO 9001 Affects Employees & Employers

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Keywords: Management; Employees; Quality; Standards
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      Toffel, Michael W. "Quality Management & Job Quality: How ISO 9001 Affects Employees & Employers." Paper presented at the Workshop on Empirical Research in Operations Management, November 06, 2008.
      • November 2008
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      Differences at Work: Sameer (B)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
      In Differences at Work: Sameer (B) HBS Case No. 9-609-054, Sameer leaves the firm at the summer's end without confronting his employer about the jokes and wondering whether he made the right choice. Later Sameer's former employer calls him to apologize for their... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility; Resignation and Termination; Working Conditions; Opportunities; Behavior
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Sameer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-054, November 2008.
      • 2008
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      A New Generation of Pension Fund Management

      By: Robert C. Merton
      In talking about pension plans at this point in American economic and corporate history, we need to discuss three linked issues: the defined-benefit (DB) corporate plans that worked for our parents; the defined-contribution (DC) plans we're getting today because... View Details
      Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; Risk Management; Retirement; United States
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      Merton, Robert C. "A New Generation of Pension Fund Management." Chap. 1 in Innovations in Investment Management, edited by H. Gifford Fong, 1–17. JOIM Conference Series. New York: Bloomberg Press, 2008.
      • August 2008
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      Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion

      By: William R. Kerr
      This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and entrepreneurial communities in the US and their ties to their home countries. US ethnic research communities are quantified by applying an... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Ethnicity; Production; Integration; Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Employment; Performance Productivity; Entrepreneurship; Change; Developing Countries and Economies; Immigration; China; United States
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      Kerr, William R. "Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion." Review of Economics and Statistics 90, no. 3 (August 2008): 518–537.
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      Can They Take It with Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers' Performance: Myth or Reality

      By: Boris Groysberg, Linda-Eling Lee and Ashish Nanda
      This paper examines the portability of star security analysts' performance. Star analysts who switched employers experienced an immediate decline in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to... View Details
      Keywords: Firm Performance; Hiring; Employee Selection; Employee Retention; Knowledge; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Retention; Performance; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
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      Groysberg, Boris, Linda-Eling Lee, and Ashish Nanda. "Can They Take It with Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers' Performance: Myth or Reality." Management Science 54, no. 7 (July 2008): 1213–1230.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

      By: Shawn A. Cole
      In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Banking Industry; India
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      Cole, Shawn A. "Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-002, July 2008.
      • June 2008 (Revised January 2010)
      • Case

      Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A)

      By: Brian J. Hall, Deepak Malhotra and Nicole Bennett
      MBA student Monroe Davies is asked by a potential employer to determine his own compensation package. This case follows Jim Hummer, President and CEO of Whole Health Management and Davies through a unique recruitment process that raises questions of compensation and... View Details
      Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Job Interviews; Negotiation Process; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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      Hall, Brian J., Deepak Malhotra, and Nicole Bennett. "Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-064, June 2008. (Revised January 2010.)
      • June 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Showdown on the Waterfront: The West Coast Port Dispute (TN) (A) & (B)

      By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Dina R. Witter Pradel and Cailin B. Hammer
      Teaching Note for [904045] and [904067]. View Details
      Keywords: Employment; Government and Politics; Negotiation Process; Technology; United States
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      McGinn, Kathleen L., Dina R. Witter Pradel, and Cailin B. Hammer. "Showdown on the Waterfront: The West Coast Port Dispute (TN) (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 908-063, June 2008.
      • June 2008
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      Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?

      By: Christopher D. Harner, Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa and Serena S. Hu
      Currently, approximately ninety percent of the six hundred twenty graduating orthopaedic residents are planning on entering a post-graduate fellowship. Since January of 2005, two of the largest fellowship match programs, Sports Medicine and Spine Surgery, were... View Details
      Keywords: Medical Specialties; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Health Industry
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      Harner, Christopher D., Anil S. Ranawat, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, Peter J. Stern, Shepard R. Hurwitz, William Levine, G. Paul DeRosa, and Serena S. Hu. "Current State of Fellowship Hiring: Is a Universal Match Necessary? Is It Possible?" Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: American Volume 90 (June 2008): 1375–1384.
      • 2008
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      Leading Professional Service Firms (LPSF) (Executive Education)

      By: Julie Battilana
      Keywords: Leadership; Employment Industry
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      Battilana, Julie. "Leading Professional Service Firms (LPSF) (Executive Education)." 2008.
      • April 2008 (Revised March 2015)
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      TheLadders (A)

      By: Peter A. Coles, Benjamin Edelman, Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett
      Despite strong appeal among job seekers and outside recruiters, TheLadders' corporate job listings seem to lag. Could raising prices help solve the problem? TheLadders considers this strategic paradox. View Details
      Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Price; Recruitment; Job Search; Marketing Strategy; Employment Industry
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      Coles, Peter A., Benjamin Edelman, Brian J. Hall, and Nicole Bennett. "TheLadders (A)." Harvard Business School Case 908-061, April 2008. (Revised March 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
      • 2008
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      Life-Cycle Funds

      By: Luis M. Viceira
      The U.S. retirement system has experienced a substantial transformation in recent years. It has evolved from a system in which employees relied mainly on Social Security and professionally managed defined benefit (DB) pension plans sponsored by their employers to... View Details
      Keywords: Retirement; Personal Finance; Investment Funds; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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      Viceira, Luis M. "Life-Cycle Funds." Chap. 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
      • January 2008
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      Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      Long spells of unemployment are known to reduce the likelihood of re-employment, but it is difficult to discern the reasons for this observation. Using an experimental method that controls for search intensity and possible discouragement of job applicants, I document... View Details
      Keywords: Job Search; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employment; Cognition and Thinking; Perception; Creativity; Human Needs; Job Interviews; Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Managerial Roles; Judgments; Employment Industry
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      Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Nonemployment Stigma as Rational Herding: A Field Experiment." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 65, no. 1 (January 2008): 30–40.
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