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    The Hidden Costs of Working Multiple Jobs: Implications for Spending Behavior and Wellbeing

    To cope with the economic pressures of inflation and rising costs of living, it has become increasingly common for individuals to rely on multiple jobs. This trend has been further fueled by the growing availability of remote work, gig opportunities, and... View Details

    • March–April 2017
    • Article

    Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
    Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

    By: Pian Shu
    Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

    By: Georgios Serafeim
    Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Management; Sustainability; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Investment Fund; Investment Strategy; Corporate Accountability; Activist Shareholder; Engagement; Environment; Climate Change; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Employee Engagement; Global Warming; Investment; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Expectations
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    • 18 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

    and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a battle between the company and a View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Aug 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

    forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    What's My Employee Worth? The Effects of Salary Benchmarking

    By: Zoë B. Cullen, Shengwu Li and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
    While U.S. legislation prohibits employers from sharing information about their employees’ compensation with each other, companies are still allowed to acquire and use more aggregated data provided by third parties. Most medium and large firms report using this type... View Details
    Keywords: Information Sharing; Wages; Policy; Compensation and Benefits
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    • April 2012
    • Case

    Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)

    By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
    The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Supply Chain Management; Production; Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Auto Industry; Japan
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    • June 2022
    • Article

    The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry

    By: Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin
    We study the effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers—peer hosts and hotels—who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model using data from major... View Details
    Keywords: Peer To Peer; Airbnb; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Accommodations Industry
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    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    sources and gather new perspectives." Bennett and Lemoine recommend reaching out “to partners, customers, researchers, trade groups, and perhaps even competitors” in times of... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
    • 16 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

    Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus
    • Research Summary

    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
    • Web

    Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    referring physicians and patients 5. Includes templates and expert systems for each medical condition Provides views and templates by medical condition to enhance View Details
    • December 2021
    • Article

    The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: An Empirical Investigation of Firm Search Strategies

    By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
    Breakthrough innovation has been an important topic of study for generations of scholars. Previous research in this domain has focused on exploring the way breakthroughs emerge from cumulative combination and recombination of prior technologies and knowledge components... View Details
    Keywords: Breakthrough Innovation; Exploration And Exploitation; Search Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Strategy
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    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Immigrant Entrepreneurship

    By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
    We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Immigration; United States
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
    We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
    Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Human Capital
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Intrinsic Motivation and Referrals Within Firms: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution

    By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
    Many organizations rely on internal referrals between employees with differing comparative advantages. Yet when an employee encounters a lucrative opportunity, they may be motivated to retain it even when doing so harms efficiency. We develop a framework that... View Details
    Keywords: Loan Officers; Strategic Behavior; Strategic Disclosure; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans
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    Contagion of Cooperation in Static and Fluid Social Networks

    By: Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Samuel Arbesman, James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis
    Cooperation is essential for successful human societies. Thus, understanding how cooperative and selfish behaviors spread from person to person is a topic of theoretical and practical importance. Previous laboratory experiments provide clear evidence of social... View Details
    Keywords: Social Contagion; Social Networks; Cooperation; Behavior; Social Media
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    • 01 Sep 2009
    • News

    Of Value and Values

    that cause global warming. The case, which is taught in the first-year MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, confronts students with the same dilemma. And according to Sucher, the discussion... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
    We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the U.S. In... View Details
    Keywords: Fairness; Policy; Health Disorders; Marketplace Matching; Performance Effectiveness; Rank and Position; Health Industry; United States
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