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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
will be opposed by some business interests, but making progress on such issues will improve society, and there is a growing recognition that business is not distinct from society. Healthier, more financially secure workers are more View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts outperform on their stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
2013 European Business Review Changes in Work, Changes in Self? Managing Our Work and Non-Work Identities in an Integrated World By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid Abstract—Diverse workplaces are challenging the boundaries between workers' personal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
nations are now suffering." There was little agreement over how these barriers might be addressed. While suggesting "less and not more help from government," Doug Elliott nevertheless reminded us that many of those workers... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15023 Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Indian Software Services Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In settings ranging from product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
sense of purpose could use that to guide innovation. One of the exciting parts of SuperCorp and the rise of this company model is that it's actually a way to develop products and services faster, to get more innovation, and to showcase... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
stems from the Catholic Worker movement's personalist tradition, which means that Haley House staff and volunteers work intensely with small numbers of people as a way of trying to create deeper change in them. Haley House launched the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
two studies from an online labor market in the United States, and (3) a laboratory experiment. Our findings suggest that worker productivity is higher on bad rather than good weather days and that cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or... View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
discusses the evidence that has been assembled to date in understanding the impact of high-skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
with after-tax dollars. (These numbers of uninsured SME employees and unsubsidized individual market enrollees, change over time. In particular, COVID-19-related job losses have surely reduced the number of uninsured SME employees as some laid-off View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs and then the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
purpose and use. Anteby relies on observations at retirees' homes, archival data, interviews, and surveys to understand how plant workers and managers make sense of this tacit practice. He argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Processing up to 8,000 orders per day, the robots help make Quiet Logistics a highly efficient firm and free its workers to complete additional value-added services such as handwritten thank-you notes. The company has also developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne