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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
agency by broadening it to include questions about positive duties. The second is examine the case for justifying these sorts of positive duties by attributing moral agency to business enterprises. Such duties are controversial because...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
construction of blackness has been an economic tool for centuries; it has been used as a means of sourcing under- or wholly unpaid labor, rationalized by an attribution of blacks’ biological inferiority. Though research has since amassed...
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- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
its expanded production capacity of over 400,000 units. With 1,600 employees, the facility hosts two vehicle lines and three battery lines. Ather's success in the market, amid customer uncertainty, can be attributed to their focus on...
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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
to choose the ecofriendly bulb, but they also reported that price was the attribute they actually cared about most. Next, another group of participants simply observed the choice that other people made: the selection of the ecofriendly...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
bookmarked a particular post—Sun and Zhu found that popular content increased by about 13 percent after the revenue-sharing program took effect, with 50 percent of the increase attributed to three specific topic shifts: the stock market,...
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- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
several factors associated with suppliers being especially willing to share this information with buyers, focusing on attributes of the buyers seeking this information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
entrepreneurial journey, he attributes a big part of his success to being flexible. “When I was a kid dreaming of owning my own business or where I would work, never would I have thought it was going to be retail. However, the way the...
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- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
effort. Because the positive upward cycle is attributed to one's own actions, people begin to believe that it will never end: assertions are made that the laws of the universe have changed, that business cycles have disappeared, and that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
studies were less likely to criticize the actions of others when their behavior eroded gradually, over time, rather than in one abrupt shift. We refer to this phenomenon as the slippery slope effect. Our studies also demonstrate that at least part of this effect can be...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706504 Improving Performance: Boat Building Exercise Harvard Business School Exercise 606-147 Provides a framework for team problem solving and process improvement following concepts widely View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
students examine the favorable and unfavorable attributes of the White Stone offer, especially as it relates to the unique situation of the protagonists. Additionally, the financial terms of the offer are compared to the terms of similar...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
a college’s academic and nonacademic attributes available to students, how do these scandals affect their applications? To investigate, we construct a dataset of scandals at the top 100 U.S. universities between 2001 and 2013. Scandals...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
take. Where organizational conversation flourishes, it involves up to four elements. These elements reflect the essential attributes of interpersonal conversation, and likewise they reflect the classic distinguishing features of a...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
study of the high-end fashion industry in India from its emergence in the mid-1980s to 2005. Although prior studies have attributed the specific identity, structure, and characteristic features of fashion industries in France, Italy, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Entrepreneurs Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna R. Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Abstract This paper argues that a large component of success in entrepreneurship and venture capital can be attributed to skill. We show that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
1980-1997, we find that after controlling for other policies and fundamentals, stock market liberalizations are associated with a significant increase in the share of imports of machinery and equipment. We hypothesize this can be View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
companies that were categorized as industrial. These categories generated higher returns as a group than the consumer goods category. Some of the characteristics of these winners included having a proprietary technology and/or meeting an established market need in an...
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by Manda Salls
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any capital market benefits observed for UK-domiciled firms are more likely attributable to improvements in comparability (i.e.,...
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Carmen Nobel