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- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
several concrete managerial prescriptions for the selection problem based on this trade-off. Finally, we demonstrate the value of our framework in a case study that considers air traffic management. Ethnic Innovation and U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
David Shin
David Shin is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research explores how technological innovation shapes relationships at work, particularly as it... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
battles for traction and respect. “We’ve made progress in Indonesia when it comes to gender equality, but we still have so much work to do,” she says, adding that entrepreneurship is one avenue for achieving equity. Kamdani, who founded the Angel Investment View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
A Precursor from the 1930s
In his State of the School address at last fall’s reunion, Dean Nohria laid out his vision for HBS organized in what we can call the Five I’s: curriculum innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion (making the HBS experience more of a level... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
off his own consulting firm, Competitiveness.com, in 1993 to work exclusively on cluster competitiveness reinforcement projects. Consultant and Networker One of his firm’s first challenges was helping the 500-year-old leather industry in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
Thomas examined whites who plateaued, minorities who plateaued, whites who broke through, and minorities who broke through. He found that the majority of minorities who broke through to the top have had a heterogeneous network of peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
example, how will a would-be entrepreneur know about the prices of various cash crops that might replace otherwise tried-and-true opium production? How can would-be investors, even in a small-scale enterprise, locate suitable talent for their venture? In less... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Internal Medicine, American Sociological Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Contexts, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Race and... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—We study the role of ethnic Chinese/Indian migrant inventors in transferring contextual knowledge across borders and the role of ethnic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
and measure the degree of hierarchy in transactional relationships among firms and apply the methods to two large industrial sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. We compiled the networks of firms connected by transactional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
to isolate exogenous shocks to local ethnic populations, and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade links. Firms that exploit their local networks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
meeting with and learning from leaders in politics and business from across Africa. In South Africa there will also be opportunities to discover the social and cultural landscape of Africa, including the changing role of women in the society and how the issues of View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
funding, Hofmann says. “We hear this a lot from founders in underserved communities. You don’t have to be networked on the West Coast to get an application to us.” Similar logic applies to racial and ethnic... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
local ethnic populations and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade. We also show that firms are more likely to acquire target firms, and report increased segment sales, in countries to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon