admissions essay - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

empirical analysis to be more than sketched in this paper. It is also a field that has not yet taken management as a central subject of empirical study. We shall therefore deal only with some of the central problems of the structure of management. Even then, for lack... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

who also conducted an earlier study with Smith on college rankings. “The fact that a single widely covered scandal might impact applications as much as a drop in rankings from, say, 6 to 15, sheds light on how students trade off the many factors they consider in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

might be taken in admissions to sort out the "bad apples," the primary responsibility of business schools is to provide a place where ethics and values can be discussed by all, rather than just those clearing some View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

Using data from Boston, we show that reserve and precedence adjustments have similar quantitative effects. Our results illustrate that policies about precedence, heretofore underexplored, are inseparable from other aspects of admissions... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

infringement lawsuits in U.S. district courts. The results of this review would be nonbinding but admissible in later court proceedings. Whether conducted by an independent Patent Litigation Review Board or a division of the U.S. Patent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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