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  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level Two influence labor force participation at Level One. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

participation to improve labor standards in global supply chains. Yet little is known about whether these structures are associated with improved working conditions, especially in organizations in which they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

which workers are vulnerable and what accommodations would best suit their specific needs. Learn from female leaders who have managed COVID-19 effectively Mark van Vugt, professor at VU University and research associate at University of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

Authors:Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu Abstract We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

all female leaders must deal with ambivalent reactions rooted in gender stereotypes. Generally, the assertive, dominant behavior typical among leaders tends to be viewed as atypical and unattractive in women. Studies of attitudes toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

from imperfect local institutions in developing countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-003.pdf Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

breadwinner and the rebel. Breadwinners are men who play by the rules of the institutions that they participate in, work hard to achieve, and eventually become respected authoritative figures—pillars of their communities. Colin Powell is... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

desire to signal to others. We present a field experiment where participants could choose to give up money if they did not follow through with an action. If their commitment choice was made public rather than kept private, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

elected as a state legislator encourages the subsequent political participation of women, using a regression discontinuity design on constituency level data from India. We find that female incumbents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

rankings are more likely to disclose their Princeton Review certification, suggesting that schools treat different certifications as substitutes. Third, conditional on displaying a ranking, the majority of schools coarsen information to make it seem more favorable.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

strategies, shortcomings, and achievements play out in the future? How do we imagine this great and resurgent nation with its embedded conflicts and challenges will look in 2034? We examine successively the forces that have made China as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the "bottom-up" View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

venture-funded startups in the networking/data communications industry sectors reveals that those startups that participate in an open standards community, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new realities of globalization. Maybe most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

as the sector faced increased competition from foreign innovation hubs, was being reshaped by the growth of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) locating R&D centers in Israel, and had to contend with a vexing shortage of human capital and low View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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