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February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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Hot Chicken Takeover

By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull

By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details

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26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jun 2006
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The Promise of Channel Stewardship

increasing the size of the market or increasing existing customers' purchases through the channel. A second, more subtle outcome is a more tightly woven, and yet adaptable, channel. Stewardship is not a social welfare system, where all... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

25 May 2010
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ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase advertiser welfare if the resulting click-through rate and volume of traffic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2014
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taxes. We use the model to evaluate the welfare consequences of a range of alternative policies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533977 Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2011
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and other forms of innovation. We also propose a research agenda to systematically address the social welfare implications of financial innovation. To complement existing empirical and theoretical methods, we propose that scholars examine... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2012
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with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

greater sense of responsibility for the welfare of generations to come.” This was the last speech that Carson gave. Here, as in her larger leadership journey, she did more than simply identify critical problems and potential solutions.... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

goal for me. Since then, I've come to believe that each person has a life's work—the contributions to knowledge and human welfare that come from each individual's unique combination of training, talent, and point of view. Success is first... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

19 Jul 2006
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Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A system of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Mar 2010
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legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2008
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increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers working towards ideological, rather than financial, ends. Their founders are often intense,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2005
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How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

"institutional capital." And, I was convinced that these Baxter-based social networks were instrumental not just for individuals and their ability to get their careers off to a good start, but for the welfare of their young... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

of research conferences is in the works, including this April's "Business Leadership in the Social Sector" - which will explore how businesses are dealing with critical social issues such as public education, moving welfare recipients... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

24 Mar 2015
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deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors. ... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2012
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Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of childhood poverty in America. Madrick examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a... View Details

December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

arrival. “We’ve accomplished more in the past 10 months with Paige on the board than we did in the past four years. Her heart is in it—her biggest concern is the safety and welfare of the students. Paige is a force and in a good way.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

04 Oct 2011
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potent for the growth of elite-oriented nonprofits-but not social welfare nonprofits-when local networks and cultural norms support elite mobilization. We conclude that despite globalizing trends, the local geographic community continues... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Hot Chicken Takeover

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

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History’s Lessons

Opening the Door

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

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How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

Growing Together

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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

Lesson Plan

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