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01 Dec 2024
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and American Labor Markets

March 2009
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Note on the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA)

In 2005, new legislation was passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the President that introduced a number of major amendments to U.S. bankruptcy law, affecting both business and consumer bankruptcies. This legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Restructuring; Personal Finance; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Finance

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27 Mar 2020
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Former SBA Administrator on what the passing of The CARES Act means for small businesses

19 Feb 2024
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CHIPS Act Support For GlobalFoundries Will Strengthen Key Domestic Capabilities

Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence

Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and... View Details

November 1, 2019
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Companies Think They Want New Ideas. But They Don’t Act Like It

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders say that they want more innovation. But then they trap themselves and their associates inside the structures that keep them stuck–inside the building, so to speak, where ideas get stale fast. That’s dangerous in a world of disruption and change. View Details

Keywords: Silos; Community; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Change; Perspective; Learning; Attitudes

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2008
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Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them

By: Max H. Bazerman

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20 Mar 2024
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$19.5 Billion CHIPS Act Package For Intel Is A Diversified Bet

05 Jun 2018
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5 Ways Leaders Act Like Rebels (That'll Make You Successful, Too)

15 Mar 2023
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Has Your Organization Acted on What It’s Learned in the Pandemic?

May 2000
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Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren

This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details

Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods

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26 Jul 2023
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Black Enfranchisement and White Mobilisation: Evidence from the Voting Rights Act

26 May 2021
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JPMorgan Bankers Act Chummy despite Brutal Battle to Succeed Jamie Dimon

13 Feb 2018
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How One Second Act CEO Brought Sunnier Days To Sesame Street

2000
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Normal Acts of Irrational Trust: Motivated Attributions and the Trust Development Process

By: Mark J. Weber, Deepak Malhotra and J. Keith Murnighan

Keywords: Trust; Motivation and Incentives; Attitudes

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30 Dec 2014
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Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Keywords: by Hui Chen, Katherine Gunny & Karthik Ramanna

June 2011
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Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes

This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists... View Details