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  • November 2021
  • Article

Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2018

By: Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons
U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensive attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a 1.6-billion-observations panel dataset, 2008–2018, we find that the laws... View Details
Keywords: Voter ID Laws; Voter Turnout; Voting; Political Elections; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
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  • 31 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun & B.Y. Cheon
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Religion, Politician Identity, and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Sonia Bhalotra, Guilhem Cassan, Irma Clots-Figueras & Lakshmi Iyer
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Diversity in Innovation

By: Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang
In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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  • April 2023
  • Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams
OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

    Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence form a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018

    U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details

    • Article

    When Being a Model Minority Is Good...and Bad: Realistic Threat Explains Negativity Toward Asian Americans.

    By: W.W. Maddux, A. Galinsky, A.J.C. Cuddy and M. Polifroni
    The current research explores the hypothesis that realistic threat is one psychological mechanism that can explain how individuals can hold positive stereotypical beliefs toward Asian Americans yet also express negative attitudes and emotions toward them. Study 1... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Prejudice and Bias; Ethnicity; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Emotions
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    • 23 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23, 2008

    they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Download the working paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14539 The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention Authors:William R. Kerr and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 31 Jan 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

    Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital–backed startups. We show that from 1990 to 2016 women... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 16 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Cost of Friendship

    Keywords: by Paul Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov & Yuhai Xuan
    • 2017
    • Blitz Discussions

    Of Margins and Modalities

      Linda A. Hill

      Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

      • November 2007
      • Case

      Differences at Work: Jason (A)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
      Jason is a member of his firm's recruiting team, which has a mandate to create a more diverse workforce. When the group decides to interview a candidate based on the candidate's race, Jason wonders whether they made the right decision and how, in general, diversity... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Ethnicity; Job Interviews; Race; Recruitment; Diversity
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      • Web

      Employment | Harvard Business School

      unmatched opportunity to work closely with world-renowned faculty on the research, case studies, and coursework that shape the world's leaders. Working at HBS Benefits & Compensation Hiring Process Departments Diversity Affinity Groups... View Details
      • 28 Aug 2020
      • Video

      Ian Fuhr

      Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes how he was sent to a refinery owned by the Murray & Roberts group in the 1990s and encountered appalling racism at the top management. The CEO eventually took steps to... View Details
      • October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      Intermountain Health Care

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
      Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details
      Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah
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      • July 2011
      • Case

      Shifting the Diversity Climate: The Sodexo Solution

      By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
      This case profiles the evolution of Sodexo's diversity initiative. Diversity became a key priority for Sodexo, North America in 2001 after a class-action lawsuit was filed and certified in Washington, D.C. against Sodexo Marriot Services, Inc., the food services... View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Business Strategy; Globalization; Management Teams; Gender; Race; Ethnicity; Age; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Washington (state, US)
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      • 17 May 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

      whitened fared much better in the application pile than those that included ethnic information, even though the qualifications listed were identical. Twenty-five percent of black candidates received callbacks from their whitened resumes,... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 07 Aug 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: August 7, 2007

      the high $60 million range. The sell-side team, comprised of bankers from the Blackstone Group and Greenhill, and lawyers from Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland & Ellis, is forced to regroup and reconsider their options for galvanizing the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace