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- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
arrivals were also more likely to marry a US native or have a college-educated spouse. Older refugees showed gaps in language fluency, education, and income relative to their younger peers. Today, the younger group of immigrants are more...
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by Rachel Layne
- 27 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks
- 16 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Governing Misvalued Firms
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Imperfect Intermediation of Money-Like Assets
By: Jonathan Wallen and Jeremy C. Stein
We study supply-and-demand effects in the U.S. Treasury bill market by comparing the returns on T-bills to the administered policy rate on the Federal Reserve’s reverse repurchase (RRP) facility. In spite of the arguably more money-like properties of an investment in...
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Wallen, Jonathan, and Jeremy C. Stein. "The Imperfect Intermediation of Money-Like Assets." Working Paper, July 2024. (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Finance.)
- 2023
- Article
On the Impact of Actionable Explanations on Social Segregation
By: Ruijiang Gao and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As predictive models seep into several real-world applications, it has become critical to ensure that individuals who are negatively impacted by the outcomes of these models are provided with a means for recourse. To this end, there has been a growing body of research...
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Gao, Ruijiang, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "On the Impact of Actionable Explanations on Social Segregation." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 40th (2023): 10727–10743.
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
trajectories. Before founding their start-ups, founders attain jobs with wages up to 40 percent higher than those of similar non-founders. This wage gap between founders and non-founders only increases after founders reenter the labor...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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For the past several decades, income inequality in the United States has steadily increased. The extent of this inequality is exacerbated when making comparisons between the very rich and poor or men and women. Professor Exley’s research is driven by a desire to better...
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The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate
By: Gary P. Pisano
Science has long been connected to innovation and to business. As early as the late 19th century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first industrial research laboratories. During much of the 20th century, large-scale...
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Entrepreneurship;
Governance;
Innovation and Management;
Risk Management;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization
Pisano, Gary P. "The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate." Special Issue on Management Innovation—Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler. Industrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (April 2010): 465–482.
- 05 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It
feedback. They found that in every case, people rated their desire for feedback higher when they were imagining themselves as the receiver than when they were imagining themselves as the giver. In fact, the more consequential the situation, the larger that View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 14 Nov 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society
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by Alnoor S. Ebrahim & Steve Herz
- 2018
- Chapter
The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance
By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of...
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Collis, David J., Bharat Anand, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance." Chap. 15 in Business Groups in the West: Origins, Evolution, and Resilience, edited by Asli M. Colpan and Takashi Hikino. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where...
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Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. "Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30933, February 2023.
- November 2019
- Case
Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Tanvi Deshpande and Shreya Ramachandran
In May 2017 in Chennai, India, the chairman of Celebrity Fashions doubted whether the company could last until the end of the year. Venkatesh Rajagopal had found that the company, a readymade garment manufacturing and exporter he founded in 1989, was having a hard time...
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Turnarounds;
Operations;
Management;
Financial Condition;
Problems and Challenges;
Communication;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Transformation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Tanvi Deshpande, and Shreya Ramachandran. "Celebrity Fashions Limited (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-053, November 2019.
- April 2009
- Case
Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community
By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
Invest Early was an early childhood development partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to...
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Early Childhood Education;
Rural Scope;
Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business and Community Relations;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Childress, Stacey M., and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community." Harvard Business School Case 309-089, April 2009.
- July 2021
- Article
Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020
By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.
Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
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Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 326, no. 3 (July 2021): 250–256.
- 20 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Positive Professional Image
"predicament" or event that reflects poorly on their competence, character, or commitment at some point in time, due to mistakes they have made in the past that have become public knowledge, or competency gaps (e.g.,...
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by Mallory Stark
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
officials elected at the same time. Moreover, white voter registration rates spiked after the election of Black officials and continued to climb for at least a decade, the researchers find. “Even if the [Voting Rights Act] lowers the Black-white View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions
- 07 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries