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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012 By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We study immigrant entrepreneurship and firm ownership in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners (SBO). The survival and growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
B2B supplier exchange. 88 This new service was named Covisint. Issues have plagued Covisint since its inception. First, the Federal Trade Commission worried that the joint venture may lead to "...unlawful price signaling or... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
US business interests. If you put aside feelings about partisanship and individuals, there were a number of things the Trump administration did that were supportive of business growth and economic growth. But the volatility and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53575 November 28, 2017 athenaInsight The No-excuses Way to Manage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican economy registered growth during this tumultuous period. "You'd think the economy would come to a crashing halt," Maurer says. "Except that when you look around the world, it turns out there are a number of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
the nature of the organization's business and how the organization intends to succeed and outperform competitors. It articulates the critical elements for a company's growth strategy 5: Objectives for growth... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
that compensatory fit can only work when there is a powerful informal organization already in existence and when the gains from ambidexterity are substantial. Further, depending on the strength of the informal organization, breakdown in the conditions necessary for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
improves financial performance on measures such as profitable investments at the individual portfolio-company level and overall fund returns. And even though associating with similar people can have social benefits for those people, it can View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
intensive industries. We also find that leading firms will be more attracted to pools of labor, suppliers, and potential knowledge spillovers when their own contributions are less fungible and cannot be easily leveraged for strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
the growth of the tech centers was actually coming from the big population centers.” The rise of tech hubs What’s more, that growth isn’t stoked by long-standing companies shifting locations, like IBM did,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
Kerr and Lincoln analyzed Current Population Survey data on that time period. Not surprisingly, growth in the H-1B program directly correlated with an uptick in the number of immigrants working in science and engineering. More... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
the 20th century or that it is not so poor now. The second explanation states that the country failed to generate growth supporting institutions despite its wealth, thus leading to a relative decline in its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
oversees a transparent award. Fourth, projects can be planned and sequenced to optimize cumulative benefit. While it’s tempting to spread infrastructure spending around for political reasons, that can lead to disconnected and unrelated... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
However, most of these investors also trade in public securities. This leads to a controversial question: do institutional investors use private information received in the loan market to trade in public securities? In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
thinker as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
Putting Customers At The Core Of Your Business Be the Anti-Hero Our message begins simply enough: you can't be good at everything. In services, trying to do it all brilliantly will lead almost inevitably to mediocrity. Excellence requires... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
use by examining the relationship between convex pay schemes and overconfidence. In a laboratory experiment, subjects chose between a piece rate and a convex pay scheme. We find that overconfident subjects are more likely than others to choose the convex scheme, even... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
and Jonathan T. Kolstad Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We consider the welfare economics of firm entry when input supply is inelastic. Prior studies suggest that with elastic supply of inputs, free entry is likely to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace