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  • 12 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh & K. Sudhir
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • News

How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

  • 2009
  • Chapter

The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match by observing the differences in the outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Failure
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  • 23 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura
India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • 08 Apr 2009
  • News

The Past and Future of General Motors

  • May 2019
  • Article

Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm?

By: Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng
Marketplace lending relies on large-scale loan screening by investors, a major deviation from the traditional banking paradigm. Theoretically, participation of sophisticated investors in marketplace lending improves screening outcomes but also creates adverse... View Details
Keywords: Marketplace Lending; Screening; Sophisticated Investors; Adverse Selection; Financing and Loans; Performance; Information
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  • 21 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

notice and take action, according to the research, published September in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. The study could provide an incentive of its own for businesses looking to attract and retain talent amid a brisk View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
    • 2014
    • Article

    Paying It Forward: Generalized Reciprocity and the Limits of Generosity

    By: Kurt Gray, Adrian F. Ward and Michael I. Norton
    When people are the victims of greed or recipients of generosity, their first impulse is often to pay back that behavior in kind. What happens when people cannot reciprocate, but instead have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different—to pay it... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Situation or Environment; Attitudes
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    • 26 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

    Keywords: by Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Unver
    • Fall, 2024
    • Article

    Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

    By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
    We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
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    • January 2006 (Revised December 2006)
    • Case

    Wal-Mart's Business Environment

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
    In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. The proposal was a part of Wal-Mart's strategy to bring its supercenter format to California. Introduced in the late 1980s, supercenters added a... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Strategy; Labor Unions; Conflict and Resolution; Retail Industry; Los Angeles
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    • Summer, 2018
    • Article

    Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

    By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
    We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the... View Details
    Keywords: Entry; Growth; Industrial Policy; Innovation; R＆D; Reallocation; Selection; Market Entry and Exit; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Performance Productivity
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    • 24 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

    say, 'This is who I am, and this is the identity that I'm going to be bringing to the workplace.'" In a third study, 1,500 adults were asked to imagine being a computer science instructor tasked with choosing one out of four former students to refer for a prestigious... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance

    By: Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
    This article describes the consumer finance sector in the US since World War II. We first define the sector in terms of the functions delivered by firms (payments, savings/investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice.) We provide time series evidence on... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Personal Finance; Business History; Innovation and Invention; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 27 Sep 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

    • 03 Apr 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

    until such time that disparity between the haves (U.S., Europe, etc.,) and the have-nots is significantly bridged." One theme common to several of these comments is that globalization (and the outsourcing it promotes) will turn out to be an equalizing View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Automation and the Plight of Young Workers: Evidence from the Automation of Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century

    By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
    Telephone operation was one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted dial service in over half of U.S. telephone exchanges, automating away a legion of operators. We show that upon a city's adoption of... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Labor; Gender; Technology Adoption; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • 03 Sep 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure

    Keywords: by Susan A. Kayser, John W. Maxwell & Michael W. Toffel