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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
taxi drivers," Mukhtar notes. "They are typically an older group, and their occupation by its nature is a sedentary one." The drivers' diet is poor (too many irregular junk food meals consumed on the go), working conditions are stressful...
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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
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
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Martha Lagace
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017
sustainable manner will remain high among our financial planning priorities. Space and occupancy expenses for fiscal 2017 increased nearly 10 percent from the prior year, coming in 4 percent below budget. The Chao Center was occupied for...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
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,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
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...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
occupation or possession by grant/gift, and tributary or chieftaincy. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54766 Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
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...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
gave government officials enormous power and prestige. In fact, bureaucrats in MITI [the Ministry of International Trade and Industry] were much more powerful than the elected political leaders—who had little real influence on policy. It's very hard for people in a...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
in higher education, generally. The concept of productivity, for instance, does not strictly apply to an enterprise like HBS that strives to provide faculty members with robust support for their research. In a similar vein, the School’s space and View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
Committee, where he raised more money than any other member, Weinberg launched a long series of relationships with occupants of the White House that would continue for more than thirty-five years. Almost everybody on Wall Street voted...
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Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
workers with increased skilled immigrant employment by firm. Employment expansion is greater for younger natives than their older counterparts, and departure rates for older workers appear higher for those in STEM occupations compared to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
productivity, how many people they see. They have lousy information systems to back them up. And then they have a public policy establishment that more or less continuously deprecates their ideas and squeezes down their income. Not a great View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
an important occupational category, and, in return, we will ensure that the members of our profession are worthy of your trust—that they will not only be competent to perform the tasks entrusted to them, but that they will also conduct...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace