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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
optimal commodity taxation. We then calibrate the model to evidence on the relationship between skills and preferences and extensively examine the quantitative case for taxes on future consumption (saving). In our baseline case of a unit intertemporal elasticity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
[process] will take enormous effort, ingenuity, and discipline along with massive investments.” No doubt Toyota will regain some of its lost market share in the short term, to the extent the automaker's production systems can respond by increasing production View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
LaGuardia is number 15 for takeoff. I miss Air Force One!! And here's one from film director Lee Unkrich: Just in case you think all this has gone to my head, within 36 hours of winning the Oscar, I was back home plunging a clogged... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
dashboard, "indirect goals" that help predict and explain financial performance beyond the "direct goal" of profit. These might include the speed of aircraft turnaround in the airline industry, the conversion rate of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
donated to nonprofits, Accion Chicago is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to build communities through entrepreneurship. We all know that small business is the growth engine of any economy. This is even more true for distressed communities where jobs are hard... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
a 1,150-bed adult teaching hospital in St. Louis; prior to that, he had been chief medical officer at MGH and a medical director of the MGPO. Recently, he played a key role in winning for MGPO doctors and health-care providers higher... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times more likely to die in the delivery room. “People theorize that 50 percent to 75 percent of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
a lot of value from the standpoint that it is a universal statistic that’s applicable across players and positions. It’s really easy from a topline perspective to explain to someone: This is how many wins a player got you.” Explaining... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
between tax brackets within a state-year cell and which absorb heterogeneity and contemporaneous changes in economic conditions; ii) an instrumental variable approach, which predicts changes in an individual or firm's total tax rate with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Some are small businesses, some are big corporations, some are multinationals. Is this package a win for business in general? Desai: Yes, I think broadly you could characterize it as a win. The basic features they should be focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
would you describe your job? I do political organizing, and I try to have my issues and candidates earn 60 percent of the electorate. Political organizing is not niche marketing. While winning 2 percent of the electorate makes you a nut,... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little bit like the Uber of farming, in... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
inventors increases the rate of codification of herbal knowledge at U.S. assignees by 4.5%. Our identification comes from an exogenous shock to the quota of H1B visas and from a list of entities exempted from the shock. We also find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It was also found that quit rates varied among and within industries. For example, JetBlue’s quit rate was twice as high as Southwest Airlines’. Another important influence... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information | Annual Report 2024
back to in-person learning after the COVID pandemic. Total enrollment remained flat in fiscal 2024 at nearly 42,000, as the percentage of women increased from the prior year while enrollment of international and minority participants declined. The overall completion... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
allow us to examine how teams experience status disagreement over time, and client ratings demonstrate how coordination and conflict ultimately affect team performance with clients. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
neutral, or even harmful to minting winning ideas. Testing for personality Koning and Hasan detail their findings in the paper Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment, to be published in Research Policy this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
completed rooftop solar installations. CleanMax has played an integral role in India’s transition to renewables and received many awards. CleanMax was the first Indian company to win the prestigious Transformational Business Awards 2018... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
election years. These results describe how failures in electoral accountability can lead to suboptimal policy outcomes. Read the paper: http://www.cgdev.org/doc/events/MADS/Shawn_Cole.pdf Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne