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Research Design - Impact Investments
impact investing, our team has drawn upon several established resources, including: the Community Development Venture Capital Association (CDVCA), ImpactAssets, ImpactBase, and Preqin’s alternative assets database. We have further used commercial View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
economists who are more skeptical of immigration suggest the impacts are modest.” On the other hand, the benefits that immigrants provide when it comes to innovation are impressive, he adds. In his recent working paper with Pekkala Kerr, for example, the researchers... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
when husbands were absent from the home, making it difficult for them to monitor women’s behavior. Men were away for various reasons: taking animals out to pasture, protecting them against predators and thieves, or going to faraway View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector
colleagues had the unique opportunity to study the evolution of an entirely new industry—the wireless router sector—from its inception in the late 1990s to its maturation into a $12.5 billion worldwide market by 2020. Researchers... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
PublicationsSelling to Many Countries—Within the U.S. Authors:Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Wong Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 52, no. 1 (fall 2010) Abstract In pursuing growth, many companies have plans to sell to emerging View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
course, is only one of many factors that determine a film's market performance. Film characteristics such as story line, genre, and the use of special effects also affect demand. The role of directors and other creative talent could play... View Details
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
working paper is instead focused on perceptions of political risk by domestic business leaders active in Latin America and South Asia since the 1970s. Employing data from the Creating Emerging Markets oral history View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology's development. Incumbents recognize that they have lost the game in the volume end of the market and do what they can to block incursions from below. For example, Oracle introduced its disruptive relational View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
he says, will become longer, fatter, and more profitable. Elberse set out to investigate whether Anderson's long-tail theory is actually playing out in today's markets. She focused on the music and home-video industries—two markets that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Industry Information - Alumni
faculty from the fields of business, economics and law. + – CPG/Marketing AdAge Leading trade publication of the marketing and media landscape. Tiered subscription model (free registration for a limited number of articles per month;... View Details
- Fast Answer
Compensation by Industry/Position/Location
Includes bonus information, anonymous salary information, and revised industry definitions. Business Insider Searchable database of the last three years of salary disclosures, collected from the USCIS website, curated to a range of... View Details
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
from each Kickstarter project, including the comments from the customers and updates posted by the entrepreneur. The researchers then manually collected data for actual delivery times and numbers of product features. They also cross-referenced funding information on... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Options: Basics for finding price data
that same expiration date was $7.70. The price of a put option to sell a share at the same strike price and exercise date was $0.23 and the price of a put option to sell at $65 was $7.00. As a rule, a call (buy) option is more valuable when the strike or exercise price... View Details
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
Make It Mutually Beneficial This is critical. As a job seeker, you have your finger on the pulse of the job market. Share information with the search firm, such as: Which firms seem to be hiring? How are they running their process? Who are they hiring? If a search firm... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Abstract The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transformation-with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
that expansions abroad reduce a firm's domestic activity, instead suggesting the opposite. The Finance Function in a Global Corporation Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
United States. In recent years, however, this centralized approach to the collection and analysis of adverse events through doctor-initiated case reports has been superseded by innovative, though episodic, pharmacoepidemiological studies of large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
With global markets in turmoil over the last several weeks, leaders throughout the world are starting to think about how they should respond if confronted with an economic downturn. Yet what do we know about how leaders decide what to do... View Details