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  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

self-employment incomes in both high and low capital industries are falling sharply compared with the wages that organizations pay workers, according to the researchers. Their data came from a number of sources, including US Census and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

associated with firm performance. Nicholas’s findings, detailed in the working paper, Status and Mortality: Is there a Whitehall Effect in the United States?, contradict the influential Whitehall studies, a British research initiative that began tracking View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

  Publications November 2014 Asian Survey Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead of other Indian states in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

from analytics when they haven’t declared it themselves. If marketers avoid those tactics, use data judiciously, focus on increasing trust and transparency, and offer people control over their personal data, their ads are much more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • March 2007 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

The Vancouver 2010 Olympics

By: Anita Elberse, Catherine Anthony and Joshua Callahan
It is February 2007, exactly three years before Vancouver hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics. Judy Rogers, City Manager for the City of Vancouver and a member of the Board of Directors for Vancouver's Organizing Committee (VANOC), is keen to ensure the Games will have a... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Sports; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Vancouver
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  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

Abstract—Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–-2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

others. Our results can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Book

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 25 Aug 2015
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Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

is pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree at Harvard Kennedy School; and Rachel Snyder, a candidate for a Master of Public Policy degree at Harvard Kennedy School. Employers have sometimes balked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about government policies and consumer attitudes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

a vaccine like that. What worries me the most is that the public is so hungry, so desperate to go back to normalcy, that they are pushing us to move things faster and faster. But ultimately, if you're going to use a vaccine in billions of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
  • 05 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy, accepted for publication by American Economic Review: Insights. It was co-authored by Gita Gopinath of Harvard University and the International Monetary Fund; Brent Neiman of the University of Chicago; and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Feb 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

iStock Summing Up How Should Organizations Draw the Line on Pay Transparency? There is general support for the widespread practice of disclosing pay data in "bands" associated with jobs. Fewer people would go beyond this to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

initial public offerings to longitudinal data on employment composition from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We construct a set of comparable firms by looking at companies that filed and then... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

agent-based simulation model of network emergence. Using data on technology partnerships from 1983 to 1999 among firms in the automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, microelectronics, new materials, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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