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  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer 2018 NYU Journal of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

dares to trust—a young British nurse with a troubled past. When she proves to be an exceptional student of his laws of influence, he urges her to help him complete his mission: Hitler has an atom bomb, and his scientists must be persuaded... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks worldwide. Could a crash of that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Business Answers the Call

curriculum, and staff and the skills to manage these resources.” For Burns and the other alumni in these pages, as well as other involved HBS graduates, public education remains a complex and highly charged issue. Stig Leschly cites labor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1996
  • Background Note

The GM's Operational Challenge: Managing Through People

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
Highlights and explores how a general manager adds value to the firm at the operational level by managing through people. Discusses how assumptions about human motivation influence the employment contract that the general manager implicitly enters into with the workers... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Selection and Staffing; Contracts; Managerial Roles; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • 09 Sep 2010
  • News

Taking the Long-Term View

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

institute laws regarding the minimum percentage of women on a company's board, while research suggests that women enter executive positions earlier and work harder than male counterparts. Other topics include a discussion of a female... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

This growth differential in turn depends on the mobility of the technology's labor force, which we model through the extent that technologies depend upon immigrant scientists and engineers. Spatial adjustments are faster for technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

thought were well behind us as well as some brand-new ones we may never have imagined: laws that limit women’s right to access reproductive health care and brazen attacks on principals of equity, equality, and social justice,” Ely said... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

  PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons

Photography by Webb Chappell HBS students are already exceptionally skilled and accomplished people when they arrive at Soldiers Field. But perhaps their education here truly begins when they first understand — and are humbled by — what a remarkable community they have... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Law Review 126, no. 4 (forthcoming).18-23: (February 2013) Abstract Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional school such as View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

interested in exploring the nature and effects of contemporary bias (structural, explicit, implicit) across a range of contexts. Williams was previously recognized with the 2021 Michael J. Zimmer memorial award, an honor presented annually to a rising scholar in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at HBS on “Leadership: Advancing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna