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  • 2011
  • Book

Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance

By: Bruce R. Scott
Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Price; Governance; Government and Politics; Books; Markets; Relationships; System
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  • June 2024
  • Article

Economics of Enhanced Methane Oxidation Relative to Carbon Dioxide Removal

By: Conor Hickey and Myles Allen
Mitigating short-term global warming is imperative, and a key strategy involves reducing atmospheric methane (CH4) due to its high radiative forcing and short lifespan. This objective can be achieved through methods such as oxidising methane at its source or... View Details
Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Pollutants; Research; Measurement and Metrics
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No Evidence for an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students

By: Georgia Rada Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk and Bernd Weber
Intertemporal choices between a smaller sooner and a larger delayed reward are one of the most important types of decisions humans face in their everyday life. The degree to which individuals discount delayed rewards correlates with impulsiveness. Steep delay... View Details
Keywords: Delay Discounting; Impulsiveness; Intertemporal Choice; Testosterone; Decision Making; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
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  • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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Everybody Else Is Doing It: Exploring Social Transmission of Lying Behavior

By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Daniel Houser and Dan Ariely
Lying is a common occurrence in social interactions, but what predicts whether an individual will tell a lie? While previous studies have focused on personality factors, here we asked whether lying tendencies might be transmitted through social networks. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

  Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2018
  • Chapter

The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century

By: Nicholas Bagley, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite and Ariel Dora Stern
On the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), we describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Laws and Statutes; Research and Development; Investment; Markets; Monopoly
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  • February 2024
  • Article

Are Many Sex/Gender Differences Really Power Differences?

By: Adam D. Galinsky, Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah Riley Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin and Joe C Magee
This research addresses the long-standing debate about the determinants of sex/gender differences. Evolutionary theorists trace many sex/gender differences back to natural selection and sex-specific adaptations. Sociocultural and biosocial theorists, in contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Gender; Genetics; Power and Influence; Social Issues
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  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

across the river, the scorpion stings the frog. "Sorry about that," says the scorpion, as they both drown. "It's just my nature." It turns out that people, like the scorpion, may be biologically predisposed to behaving badly. In short,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

dedicated to environmental sustainability with a broad social vision. Q: How much does the industry influence our notions of beauty, and how much do accepted or popular notions of beauty influence product development? A: The human desire to attract reflects basic View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

delivery of a company's own offerings. Like an individual species in a biological ecosystem, each member of a business ecosystem ultimately shares the fate of the network as a whole, regardless of that member's apparent strength. From... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

too difficult to compare in terms of structural uniqueness. However, the researchers also found that cash windfalls led to an increase in the number of biologics developed. “They put that cash to work, so it seems, by working on more... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively focused on learning, constant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

for COVID-19 and is currently able to run 1,000 tests per day. David A. Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly. Under Ricks’ guidance, Lilly has teamed with AbCellera Biologics to find antibodies to disarm COVID-19. Looking for the correct antibody... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health
  • 03 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

was developed elsewhere, such as a digital form of DNA. The goal now is to redefine disease based on the underlying biological mechanisms, Lander said. By that token, diseases are going to surprise us. Reclassifying them means that some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

Experts have cited several factors that may make men more vulnerable to severe illness, including biological differences, higher smoking rates, and a greater reluctance to seek health care. This new study points to another reason men may... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

company, with a focus on changing relationships between manufacturing technology and R&D between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s. Pfizer first moved into pharmaceuticals through participation in the U.S. government's penicillin effort during World War II. Having... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

working its magic. You cannot optimize the brain to focus during all waking hours. Mind-wandering is an important biological function; a feature, not a bug. Since it will happen whether you allow time for it or not, best it happens when... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

timed experiments—like biological and chemical fields—research time slid 30 to 40 percent. Overall, 55 percent of the respondents reported a decline in total work hours, 27 percent indicated no change, and 18 percent said they were... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

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