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  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

that communities play an underappreciated role in organizational theory—critical not only to occupational identity, knowledge transfer, sense-making, social support, innovation, problem-solving, and collective action but, enabled by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Exploring the causes of natives’ backlash, I document that immigration increased natives’ employment and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

down. We are at 80 percent occupancy (at lower rates).” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

2012) Abstract Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs, and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2007
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The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

rely on technology to the extent there is labor mobility across sectors. A hairdresser in the United States, for example, makes more money than a hairdresser in China, and that is due in large part to the wage equilibrium that occurs across View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

Ulrike Malmendier Abstract To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Understanding these biases can help managers develop alternative scheduling regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020
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6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

workers to attend when sick, including work overload, lack of backup, and understaffing. Some occupational cultures have the same effect, glorifying “toughing it out” as an indicator of work commitment. Finally, we can’t discount the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

The gender punishment gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers at the firm or local branch level. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in occupation (type of job,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier Abstract To what extent do peers affect our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Faulkner Robert and Susan Shell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming Abstract Chapter excerpt: "Most American occupations of foreign countries have been of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

operating margin, and was operating at capacity in many areas, with average inpatient bed occupancy approaching 90%, versus the national average of 68%. Despite its growth, VUMC was facing a revenue shortfall of $250 million over the next... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

Center, a multidisciplinary unit that offers patients suffering from spinal problems "one-stop" access to a range of providers including orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, medical specialists in physical medicine and pain management, mental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in relevant occupations also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in relevant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

desired occupational identity. This practice produces an engaging form of control that relies on management's selective allocation of identity incentives. These findings document a previously overlooked type of control: one reliant on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We explore alternative mechanisms—changes in sex ratios, natives’ cultural responses, and displacement effects... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

occupation or possession by grant/gift, and tributary or chieftaincy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54766 Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

case protagonist recently joined a new data science team at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a government agency, and needs to evaluate and recommend one of several alternative approaches that OSHA should use... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

August 2013 Work and Occupations Toward a Model of Work Redesign for Better Work and Better Life By: Perlow, Leslie A., and Erin L. Kelly Abstract—Flexible work accommodations provided by employers purport to help individuals struggling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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