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- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
2001-2008 period. We find a positive and separate influence of each driver on output per potential worker. The microeconomic environment has a positive effect on output per potential worker even after controlling for historical legacies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that as the tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty while trying to appear in View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
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The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
the model, we find that (i) the supply of long- relative to short-term bonds is positively related to the term spread, (ii) supply predicts positively long-term bonds' excess returns even after controlling for the term spread and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
transformation in the music and television industries as well. Their audiences are fragmented and people are demanding mobility, immediacy, and control over their media consumption. This makes some industries' traditional business and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight control and enabled their companies to grow, Bartlett says, "it... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market prices—predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of close to 1. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
cities that are holistically improving their energy use to reduce their emissions and save money. Often these solutions involve submetering individualized utility measuring of city buildings, which allows for a closer monitoring of energy use and misuse; tighter View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of the Capital Structure of the... View Details
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
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The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Judgments; Race; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Conflict and Resolution; Conflict Management; Loss; Motivation and Incentives; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Welfare; Tulsa; Oklahoma; United States
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
207-075 In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
dog-sized doses,” says Minard. Going beyond supplements, SmartPak Canine introduced high-quality, premeasured dog food, inspired by Tally, Minard’s lovable but extremely overweight (94-pound) Lab. Including high-protein dry food in one of the SmartPak compartments... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
article proposes that the review process initially be adopted on a pilot basis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53264 September 2017 Health Affairs Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
interest in food marketing, and spoke often of his conversations with Salmon. At that time, grocers were offering generic labels on their lower cost items: yellow bags with brown block letters identifying the contents only as coffee,... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
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make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration, law, and the cost of labor and taxes) are comparatively much... View Details
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