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- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
legalization of non-competes had a definite brain drain effect. Indeed, after the passage of MARA, more inventors left Michigan for states that did not enforce non-competes than for states that did. The paper explains that from 1975 to 1996—the period surrounding the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Boosting psychological safety could be a game-changer, improving health care workers’ emotional wellbeing and reducing burnout, which could boost an organization’s retention rates and lower recruitment costs, Edmondson says. Edmondson and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
government-industry initiative, why not include in the program an investment in humans as well as bridges? If there is a topic more frequently discussed than infrastructure decay in the US, it’s inequality. Both are important sources of lost View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
from the collusive price, thereby raising total production costs. Our results can thus rationalize the apparently contradictory empirical facts that the market for IPO underwriting exhibits seemingly collusive pricing despite its low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
the doubt as it progresses with the IPO, GM must not only follow through with products that deliver higher quality and reliability but also clearly communicate these advances to consumers, even If that means focusing on just a small... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
fossil fuel industry has known since the 1960s that their products “were almost certain” to cause dramatic changes to the Earth’s climate. “ Significant temperature changes are almost certain to occur by the year 2000 a number of events... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
managing relationships with audiences and advertisers. Provides unique insights into the launch of a network—a rare enterprise—and the associated marketing and branding campaign. Also contains rich television ratings data that can form... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
current tax rates or government benefit programs in retirement and health care—a big "if". Stating that net debt (financial liabilities minus financial assets) levels of 200 percent of gross domestic View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
up premiums for everyone else,” Edelman says. “As an ordinary consumer, your rates will go up whether or not you ever use Uber yourself.” (In related research, Edelman argues that online travel intermediaries like Expedia end up inflating... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
especially those with widely diversified product portfolios, are a dominant and critical enterprise model in emerging and developing economies and have lately attracted much attention in academic circles and business presses,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Importantly, these past track records also predict divergent future real outcomes in patents, patent citations, and new product innovations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/dimalco.pdf Paying It Forward:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative tradeoffs that shape the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment success or failure to the team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Harlan County disappeared between 2008 and 2016. Today, Harlan households earn less than half the national median income, and the unemployment rate is nearly 60 percent higher than the national rate. And like many rural communities across... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
fan support. Nobody puts out a more exciting product or showcases more talented and skilled athletes than the major American professional leagues. But have the beauty, fun, and thrills of games - which once far outdistanced the commercial... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons