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- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
how European debates about political economy were translated with time across the Atlantic in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Through acts of translation, and in the context of intense processes of international and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
disputes—either idea-theft claims or copyright/patent infringement actions. “These costs and risks make buyers very cautious about whom they choose to meet. And that creates a barrier for relatively inexperienced sellers.” Here, the...
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Download the paper: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/BloomGenakosMartinSadun.pdf Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Art Nature Business
cartographic archives, Kurant aggregates individual territories falsely claimed by imperial rulers and kingdoms onto a single map. Playing with ideas of illusion and truth, these maps look at how fictions...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Department of Labor at the Wage and Hour Division. The next thing I knew, I was the acting and deputy administrator at the division, which handles overtime, minimum wage, but broader issues really affecting the workforce, like independent...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
men applied to join the venture; another source put the number of candidates at five thousand. Bridges Adams, an acquaintance who directed an acting company, remembered a conversation in which Shackleton explained his views on hiring. The...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos Abstract— This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
classic shareholder-only financial focus and would be striving to do the best job possible in reporting and explaining its financial results. But if a company is truly committed to sustainability (a claim being made by more and more...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
players, for whom an average career, their union asserts, lasts less than four years (the league disputes that). The players claimed the league deceived them about its knowledge of the severity and scope of football-induced concussions...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
implications for the pace at which consumers go online? Amara's Law claims that we tend to overestimate change in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/513060-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency" and...
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Garry Emmons
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
official responsibility for Continental Airlines' decision to keep flying during the power blackout in August 2003, but that decision was foreordained by the actions of all the other people who claimed leadership on the ground, and knew...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
impact. However, although this practice is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it would increase production to leverage the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
serve as a new source of funds for mortgage lenders. The proposal was controversial, however. Opponents disliked the fact that the Federal Building Loan Banks would have the authority to issue tax-free, mortgage-backed bonds, and many View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
arguments that prevented their being deterred from going to war; the economic reasons for their ultimate defeat; and the economic consequences of the Allied victory. False economic assumptions led the Axis powers to start the war and...
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Martha Lagace