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and costs of enormous changes in the energy mix? Energy tackles all of these questions and more. This class is for students with a wide variety of interests seeking a better understanding of the role of...
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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries. Agricultural producers face a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
across space? Why does the law of gravity apply? How do the costs of transporting goods, tasks, and technologies influence firms’ decisions to separate tasks geographically and locate relative to one another? We discuss a variety of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Baldwin Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant research effort has gone into understanding the economic impact of immigration into the United States,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
lot of focus on making sure that, when we seek out talent—or we see in our customer base when they seek out talent—they certainly look at experiences made through internships, through workforce changes,...
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- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
tax policy. Of course, these issues have been faced by human society forever, and resolving them with a definitive answer is impossible. My research, rather than trying to decide which idea of justice is "right," seeks to capture the...
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- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
engineer has invented a breakthrough, but refuses to assign the intellectual property to the firm, despite having agreed to do so in his employment contract. Fogg must choose from a variety of options, including prosecution of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
a variety of measures, including tolls, to shelter local enterprises from competition. They are motivated by the need to protect the local tax base. Without it, local officials stand to lose a major source of revenue needed to pay their...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in real time, even as other communications were disrupted. Just as important, Twitter became an invaluable tool for people to check on loved ones and seek evacuation and medical assistance. "That was the moment I decided to work at...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
often high performers, are given exceptions to the policy. Of course, organizations that don’t allow the flexibility that they seek have retention challenges. So that’s one of the vagaries of the very prescriptive model.Kerr: Dan, with...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
widespread phenomenon that threatens firms across a variety of industries with dramatic financial consequences. To tackle this problem, companies are developing sophisticated churn management strategies. These strategies typically involve...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they'll take the risk.Jurist-Rosner: They'll take the risk.Fuller: So, another feature of our research, Lindsay, was that caregiving obligations are actually much more evenly spread between men and women than I would have anticipated and that men reported the...
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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
current state of business history. Sean Silverthorne: What is the purpose of the book, and who is the intended audience? Geoff Jones: The purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art overview of business history research worldwide. It View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
variety of reasons. Some prefer the flexibility. Others seek learning opportunities or work they identify with. And employers are looking to fill skills gaps and boost their agility. Competition for advanced...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
more of a serendipitous event, the executive recruiter that WGU hired to seek a new president back in 2015 had previously known me from engaging with me while I was working at Amazon and trying to recruit me from there. He actually...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
Jacobs (MBA 1979), chairman, Anchor Audio “Thirteen years ago, I felt like I had already experienced a lifetime of learning from successes and even more from failures. After HBS, I had held a variety of roles—in brand management with...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
poverty alleviation. I was interested in this idea that there’s this whole new industry that is growing, that everybody is desperately seeking employees, and maybe this is a place where we can all start from the same starting line and...
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