Selection Pressure - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

poverty? A: Yes, there are many. Here are two: DaimlerChrysler some years ago, under pressure from the Green Party in Germany, decided it had to increase the amount of renewable resources it used in the manufacture of its cars. The... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

They include some of the country's largest cities, including Boston, Chicago, Memphis, and San Francisco. Based on a rigorous selection process, the Harvard team invited the districts because each had a performance-improvement strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

arising from a natural experiment: the introduction of an Illinois policy that enabled communities to select electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

(their dual identity) might prove both a blessing for attracting many diverse members and a curse for achieving desired outcomes. Originality/Value: More broadly, our results suggest that dual identity organizations might attract members focused on a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

experts in the selection and development of early-stage ideas. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The Black List, an annual publication, ranks unproduced... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

cases of the model are a long-lived pressure group offering rewards and punishments to a series of targets (public or corporate officials) in exchange for policy favors, or that of a long-lived extorter who demands money in order not to... View Details