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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
team to what is actually going on. Effective customer selection requires segmenting a market based on the benefits that customers receive and perceive in the product or service. It focuses on buyers: understanding their problems and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
outreach; a program of employee training that helps first-rung employees move from part-time work in high school to senior management. That’s what Taco Bell does. But any manager can identify a way of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
experience I have ever had. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in their responses to our questions, and fun! We traveled to the platforms by helicopter (the platforms are located in the Gulf of Mexico over 100 miles off the coast)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
time-tested strategies to help founders, investors, and employees navigate the operational challenges of startup ventures, including customer development, scalability, process optimization, team management, and more. This accessible set... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
for a historic opportunity. He became the third employee of Intel, working for the legendary Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. As talented as he was as an engineer, Grove became an even better manager, as we learn from exclusive excerpts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Administration Harper Business Rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by the pandemic have accelerated the transition to remote work, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in mere weeks and leaving managers and View Details
- Web
1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
that must be returned to the US Department of Education. This calculation is based on the time of withdrawal. All students who have borrowed a Federal Direct Student Loan or a private loan from the Harvard University Employees Credit... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
entitlements through a Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution plan, or through a package of pension bonds, taxes, and employee contributions. Through this case, students should more fully understand pension... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
leadership important for only one phase of the longer-term development of a business. Comments did suggest, however, that some ideas about leadership can benefit from a reexamination. Tema Frank addressed a couple of these points when she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
as they just struggle to find individuals with the right skillset, the right dispositions, the right, frankly, desires on their behalf to be the right team member for what they're trying to do. And so that anxiety, I think on both employer and employee—or would-be... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
benefits than possession of power. However, status puts greater constraints on mobility than power does, as it is harder for a high-status actor than for a high-power actor to acquire the high-power, high-status position. Empirical test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
beliefs about their comparative advantage. A stylized welfare-calculation suggests that eliminating allocative inefficiency would increase the total benefits from this treatment by about a third. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in first-party content that substitutes for third-party content relative to platforms benefitting from favorable expectations. On the other hand, platforms that benefit from favorable expectations capture a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
“That might make them more likely to cite violations they perceive by the book, and less likely to give the benefit of the doubt,” says Short. Another reason, however, might result from the fact that workers in many overseas factories are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
everywhere he goes, he impresses people by behaving graciously. So when I think about how you should measure your accomplishments in the years ahead, I’d suggest that you think about the stories other people will tell about you. Are you acting entitled? Are you using... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how the variability of payoffs to effort affects the optimal way the owner of the intellectual property uses it. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace