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- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
women in business leadership in the communities specifically; the researchers tested for effects of female leadership in politics and civil society, but found no similar effect. Next, they analyzed a comprehensive sample of new nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
date," Norton says. To test the product, Frost and Norton conducted speed-dating events to introduce couples who had already met through the interface. Their goal was to see if Virtual Dates made any difference in stoking a romance.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
not be confined to the pursuit of strong institutions: firms may also seek weak institutions to mitigate hazards. Using panel data from the global smartphone industry and recent patent wars among key industry rivals, we examine how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest stockholders across sets of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five Japanese) and an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
business,” says Cunningham. CMO Morgan Flatley says the good narratives about the business are there. “I think we just need to dust them off and show them in a new light to our consumers.” That April, Cunningham and her team first tested... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
create informed, online test prep through Khan Academy. Free, accessible coaching, Khan reasons, will help “level the playing field”—giving every student, everywhere access to elite-level SAT coaching. J.R. Simplot’s White Russet is... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
infrastructure to informal settlements can enhance public health outcomes and ensure more inclusive access to services. Additionally, testing wastewater for infectious diseases could provide valuable data... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. How could these... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
agent-based simulation model of network emergence. Using data on technology partnerships from 1983 to 1999 among firms in the automotive, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, chemicals, microelectronics, new materials, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
bakery cranks out cookies—New York now holds a demonstrable lead over Silicon Valley in terms of fintech investment in the United States. According to CB Insights, a New York startup that uses algorithms to collect and analyze data on... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
care. Challenges and hurdles to implementation are described for both the health plan and the IPU. Provides detailed data to allow students to evaluate success, identify current challenges, and recommend improvements to the integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
tasks and finding the appropriate platforms for execution. In that sense, the tasks were defined for data scientists and algorithm developers who do not necessarily have that domain knowledge, but possess the skills necessary for... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
co-developed with the Business and Environment Initiative. SIPs are an important way for faculty to build out and test new materials and themes. As Professor Macomber said at the outset, “we don’t yet know the answers to many of the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Working PapersIntra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We use a new firm-level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries—close... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Publications September 2013 Management Science Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
federal, state, and school district levels to address these issues. The team’s first task was to determine the scope of the problem. They built a test to measure a school’s broadband speed, then partnered with state departments of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
activist who is responsible for saving hundreds of thousands of Africans’ lives. When the history of business in the early twenty-first century comes to be written, all of these and other people will play big roles. Historians usually have the advantage of hindsight... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace