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Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

By: Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber

There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Behavior

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15 Apr 2010
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis

Keywords: by William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar

14 Sep 2015
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Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

buy results and experiences, not services or products. That’s why IKEA’s leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers. This requires another View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

of the most technologically advanced and cost-effective equipment, and the ever-present internal requirements of running a well-disciplined... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

December 2020
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The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform

By: Jean-Noel Barrot and Ramana Nanda

We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business contractors of the U.S. government. We find a strong direct effect of the reform on employment growth at the firm level. Importantly, however, we also... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Employment; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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30 Jan 2019
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The Life and Role of a CEO

enough; for any decision to work, CEOs need to have built trust with their internal and external stakeholders in advance of important decisions and show continued commitment after View Details

30 Sep 2002
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Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business School professor John... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

08 Sep 2015
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Through the Grapevine: Network Effects on the Design of Executive Compensation Contracts

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani

2018
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Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the complexities of the 21st century color line at the 2018 Gender & Work Symposium

24 Jan 2008
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The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Video Game; Web Services

2021
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MLS as a Sports Product—The Prominence of the World's Game in the U.S.

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kenneth Cortsen

The purpose of this Working Paper is to analyze how soccer at the professional level in the U.S., with Major League Soccer as a focal point, has developed over the span of a quarter of a century. It is worthwhile to examine the growth of Major League Soccer (MLS) from... View Details

Keywords: Soccer; Major League Soccer; Sports; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure; Business Model; Sports Industry; United States

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01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

Workforce." John Weber Newly Energized John Weber's career over the past decade has progressed as many only dream. He has moved successfully through a series of increasingly... View Details

09 Nov 2021
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The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

Richard Saouma of the Eli Broad School of Business at Michigan State University, and Nathan Seegert, of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account

By: Magnus Thor Torfason and Paul Ingram

We examine the influence of an interstate network created by intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) on the global diffusion of democracy. We propose that IGOs facilitate this diffusion by transmitting information between their member states and by interpreting that... View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Networks; Society; Transformation; Power and Influence; Country; Globalization

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14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

revitalizing rural communities, and how to become a "Boomtown." During his research and travels, Schultz realized the importance of creating new entrepreneurs as a way to... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2017
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The Power of Cultural Understanding

Jafar says that it is important to understand and tackle the root causes of the problems. He also believes in empowering View Details

Uncovering the roots of innovation

business history. Indeed, my fellowship experience also highlighted the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration and the ongoing dialogue... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

rules and norms between nations. "Just the conversations that are happening in the UN are important in determining international priorities—do we go after land mines, or... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding