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    Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

    Governments and foundations around the world are urgently seeking strategies to optimize their investments across a range of distinctive missions targeted towards societal challenges. How should such investments be made, from early R&D spending to later-stage... View Details
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Minton Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist Dissertation: How the Price System Works: Evidence from Supply Chains and Price Controls Advisors: Xavier Gabaix , Edward Glaeser , Andrei Shleifer ,... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

    It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open source software users who snagged outside sponsors in... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
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    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Outcomes and cost are measured for every patient. Aligning Reimbursement with Value Reimbursement models that reward both better outcomes and efficiency of care, such as bundled payments. Systems... View Details
    • February 2019 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advance Foods (A)

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Mike Harmon
    This case (A), and its related cases (B-E), establish a setting to discuss an M&A transaction and some of the key legal contracts that are associated with it. In 2010, private equity backed food manufacturer Pierre Foods is contemplating the acquisition of a key... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation; Complexity
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    • 22 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 22, 2015

    universities. In 1952, these institutions were reorganized according to the Soviet model and remained highly specialized until the resurgence of comprehensive institutions after 1978. This background note describes this history and then elaborates on the View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 27 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 27

      PublicationsThe Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System Authors include:David S. Scharfstein Publication:Princeton University Press, N.J.: 2010 Abstract In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Apr 2023
    • In Practice

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    example, AI has fundamentally shifted the nature of Wall Street trading. It determines credit scores for existing and potential customers, screens applicants, assists in hiring, responds in real time to queries, and suggests new courses of action. "AI View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
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    Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work

    of a diverse clientele with a diverse workforce; skills development; automation; and leveraging employee feedback. Beyond exit interviews: Knowing why workers quit makes for better job matches 20 NOV 2024 | Managing the Future of Work... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

    By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano
    Manufacturing is the locus of U.S. innovation, accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Competition; System Shocks; Trade; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States
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    • 18 May 2010
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    First Look: May 18

    workers' quality becomes known only in the late part of the market. However, in equilibrium, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus of applicants, but a shortage of high-quality... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Help - Alumni

    Global Leadership (PGL) Program for Management Development (PMD) Programs for Health System Management (PHSM) Senior Executive Program China plus completion of China Senior Executive Renewal Program (SEPCA) Senior Executive Program for... View Details
    • 01 Aug 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?

    conclude that 'these corporate attributes match the five basic virtues of Confucianism.'" The researchers conclude that “these corporate attributes match the five basic virtues of Confucianism: benevolence... View Details
    Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
    • 25 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

    fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
    Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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    • 17 Oct 2006
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    First Look: October 17, 2006

    that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • December 2001 (Revised February 2003)
    • Case

    Netherlands:The, A "Third Way?"

    By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
    The economic success of The Netherlands in the 1960s can be attributed to Dutch wages that were kept substantially below those in neighboring countries. But increased pressures in the 1970s led to a wage explosion, which in turn pushed unemployment and disguised... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; History; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Employment; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; Economic Growth; Netherlands
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Stephen’s other research here . More Info Sizing up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis By: Robin Greenwood , Benjamin Iverson & David Thesmar NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need... View Details
    • June 2014
    • Supplement

    Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Jordan Ramirez

    By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
    The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    newness. 10 Related to the age effect, there is also the strong, but difficult to quantify, possibility that foreign firms experienced management problems because of idiosyncratic features of the U.S. economy, including not only its size but also the regulatory View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail