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Multinationals and Linkages: an Empirical Investigation (joint with Andres Rodriguez-Clare)

By: Laura Alfaro
Several recent papers have used plant-level data and panel econometric techniques to carefully explore the existence FDI externalities. One conclusion that emerges from this literature is that it is difficult to find evidence of positive externalities from... View Details
  • December 2022
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Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Success and Post-ICO Performance

By: Evgeny Lyandres, Berardino Palazzo and Daniel Rabetti
We compile a comprehensive data set of initial coin offerings (ICOs) from 19 data sources including 11 ICO aggregators. We alleviate severe limitations of available ICO data by performing the first systematic analysis of ICO data quality. We use our data set to study... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Investment Return; Entrepreneurial Finance; Success; Performance
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  • 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar

returns, for example. It’s difficult for Amazon to process all those returns, and Kohl’s saw the fact that this would bring a lot of traffic to their stores as a positive effect, particularly younger people... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 18 May 2017
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How Laws and Culture Hold Back Socially Minded Companies

  • 01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal

for a positive reason,” Swearengin recalls. Even after a blindside hit on his very first play in high school left him staggering and wondering if “football was worth the sickening feeling inside my head,”... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Kevin Huang
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Performance
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Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney
It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Entrepreneurship; Rank and Position; India
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Industrial competitiveness in high tech and science-based businesses

By: Willy C. Shih
How do emerging economies develop industrial and technical capabilities that overtake those of advanced economies?  Are there some industrial sectors that are especially susceptible to such targeting?  What will it take to restore America’s... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Diffusion; Knowledge Flows; Competitive Advantage; Globalization; Manufacturing Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; China; Asia
  • July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
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Delphi Corp. and the Credit Derivatives Market (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Victoria Ivashina and Sarah Abbott
In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a financially troubled auto parts supplier. Delphi is General Motor's key auto parts supplier, and, like... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financial Management; Risk Management
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  • 03 Nov 2016
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Ideological Segregation among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

constant positivity are a hallmark of emotional adjustment during crisis. “In general, resilient people have intensely negative reactions to trauma,” writes Emily Esfahani Smith. “They experience despair and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 07 Jun 2020
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Standing and acting together for racial justice

  • July 2019
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The Gravitational Pull of Expressing Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Christopher To, Shira Agasi, Stéphane Côté and Adam D. Galinsky
Prior research attributes the positive effects of passion on professional success to intrapersonal characteristics. We propose that interpersonal processes are also critical because observers confer status on and support those who express passion. These interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Admiration; Support; Emotions; Communication; Perception; Status and Position; Success; Situation or Environment; Competition
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Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

By: Lars Bo Jeppesen and Karim R. Lakhani
We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large R&D intensive companies, and blind review of solution... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Markets; Independent Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Gender; Science
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    Macroeconomic Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

    How do monetary policy rules, monetary policy uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of US Treasury bonds? The exposure of US Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average... View Details

    • 28 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

    salt, it is said that about 50-plus million Chinese and 20-plus million Indians live outside their home countries. India's tendency to shun its diaspora must rank as among the most disastrous decisions made... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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    Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

    As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Markets for Ideas: Prize Structure, Entry Limits, and the Design of Ideation Contests

    By: Pavel Kireyev
    Contests are a popular mechanism for the procurement of innovation. In marketing, design, and other creative industries, firms use freelance marketplaces to organize contests and obtain high-quality ideas for ads, new products, and even business strategies from... View Details
    Keywords: Idea Generation; Crowdsourcing; Contest Design; Structural Estimation; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Innovation and Invention
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    • 28 Dec 2019
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    Tech Clusters

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr and Frederic Robert-Nicoud
    • 01 Mar 2004
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    Liquid and Efficient

    In January, John Thain (MBA ’79) assumed his new position as CEO of the New York Stock Exchange, a move that prompted interim NYSE head John Reed to declare, “We have an exceptional person at a time when, frankly, we require an... View Details
    Keywords: Finance