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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Alexander Westkamp Abstract—Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
discusses the evidence that has been assembled to date in understanding the impact of high-skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
and provocative, this book is an essential resource for all teams seeking to strengthen their innovative prowess. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
forget: That business is, at heart, a profoundly human endeavor... which means that an essential requirement for any businessperson—in any market, in any economy—is an acute sensitivity to what makes us all spin. Order this Book:...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms, a stronger understanding of these...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
yields—is a good proxy for the level of term premia. The nominal-real covariance has declined since the early 1980s, driving down term premia. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52370 October–November 2016 Harvard Business Review Let Your...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
transformations were homologically related to changes in the prevailing mode of governance in the American economy: business schools became essential sites for the development of tools and methods (e.g., input-output approaches, linear...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55504 forthcoming Theoretical Economics Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract— Various forms of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
list of the most eminent psychological scientists, provide a broad range of insightful perspectives. This book is essential reading for students, researchers, and professionals interested in learning about the development of the biggest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
business. Yoffie: Platforms really are double-edged swords. They are some of the most valuable, efficient ways to organize commerce, and they are also a potential source of violence, disinformation, antitrust abuse, worker abuse, racism,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls "Planet Finance." In doing so, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, from the civilization of the Renaissance to the origins of...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
responsibility for formulating the energy strategy-and thus the Russia policy-for essentially all of Europe? The resolutions of these two puzzles are, I show, interlinked; they also demand theoretical innovation. With several case...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
should also be invariant when preferences over the null object change. We demonstrate that it is sufficient to require only one of Quesada's (2009) additional independence requirements to reestablish the result of Theorem 1 on the general domain R. Finally, while...
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Martha Lagace