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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
story—it is the story of the personal computer, its software, and its impact upon society. From two college drop-outs based on the West Coast came a revolution which fundamentally influenced the global practice of business. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
example, the California-based Rogers Family Company exports coffee from its farm, Finca Peru Paris, and sells it at major retail outlets such as Costco stores on the west coast of the United States. Lurtz View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
fewer links in their tweets than men. "Women actually say things, guys give references to other things." But even accounting for these differences, the researchers still saw differences between how men and women are followed, perhaps View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants favored the increase in industrialization as well as the establishment of more and larger firms, and then grew over time. “After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew at... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
investments that keep them going.” In fact, companies cut their longer-term investments by 10 to 40 percent—an average of 17 percentage points more than shorter-term investments. In financial terms, that carries the same financial impact... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jun 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?
nuanced cultural approaches." Whether this will produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable.—James Heskett Roy Bingham points out that "American management seems to work best when... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
World As It Is The last part of the course focuses on Machiavelli's The Prince. If you look closely at Machiavelli, said Badaracco, the people he admired were the entrepreneurs of his era. They weren't starting new businesses; they were simply changing the way in which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
to the passive control arm at the end of the incentive period and relative to the PVI arm at both points in time were not statistically significant. Conclusion: Commitment contracts can improve ART adherence and virologic suppression.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
practices or the contested meanings in the adoption of new practices (Leblibici, et al., 1991; Lounsbury and Pollack, 2001). While both research approaches have been quite productive and provocative, some scholars have raised concerns about this turn in institutional... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
reasons for this correlation," Cohen says. "In California, for instance, you may have more Japanese immigrants because it's the closest point of entry with Japan. And you may also do more trade with Japan because it's the closest place... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West German Family Firms (1960-2008)." Author:Christina Lubinski Publication:Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 55, no. 2 (2010) Abstract Large family firms fall between two... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
business. As the Republic of Turkey sought to catch up with the advanced West in the 20th century, the pioneers of modern businesses faced the same challenges caused by weak capital, labor, and other markets as encountered in many other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
research point of view, we want to get a better understanding of why some firms are more transparent than others about their environmental practices and performance," Toffel explains. In the second project, the researchers hope that... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Edmondson, and Michael A. West Abstract— Many teams face the problem of process loss, or suboptimal functioning, with sometimes serious consequences, such as medical errors. Team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or skepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book focuses on professionals in China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land Distribution in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
competing imperatives or resolve the tension among them. Although individuals intuitively consider the question “What should I do?” when contemplating moral dilemmas, we find that prompting people to consider “What could I do?” helps them generate moral insight.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman