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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis that faces the world's fastest-growing economy. Purchase the case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Economic Activity.") Abstract This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth by focusing on the complementarities between FDI in flows and financial markets. In our earlier work, we find that FDI is...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
must be prepared to do whatever it takes. Exceed Expectations Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) DURING THE FIRST OR SECOND WEEK of his first-year managerial economics course, Professor John Pratt gave us a pop quiz. Data were presented and three...
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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
multiple sectors. But I also continued to have this desire to look for ways to have impact and to make a difference. And in building businesses, we do that. We create jobs. We create economic growth. We do have an impact. I continue to be...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
(forthcoming) An abstract is unavailable at this time. The Variance of Non-Parametric Treatment Effect Estimators in the Presence of Clustering Authors:Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees Authors:Ian Larkin, Lamar Pierce, and F. Gino Abstract Most research linking compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Quality Demons Author:Regina E. Herzlinger Publication:." In Accountability and Responsibility in Health Care: Issues in Addressing an Emerging Global Challenge. Vol. 1, edited by Bruce Rosen, Avi Israeli, and Stephen Shortell. Series in Global Health Care View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
pretty hard to give up, and a lot of that has to do with behavioral economics and this endowment effect of you get something and it’s hard to give what you have up. It’s worth a lot more to you once you have it. And that goes with...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
more than sufficient gains in sales to satisfy investors. The delivery routes proved a blessing in disguise, given still-tight real estate and labor markets, and more of the growth planned for 2001 focused on adding routes than on opening...
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by John S. Rosenberg
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that are transforming work. Those include the way work gets done, automation and remote work, and the context in which it takes place amid rising social tensions and economic inequality. As we close out 2021, workers are quitting in...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
conceptualize labor and work and jobs, and the biggest dislocation then was the beginning of a trend. That's obviously continued strongly since, which has been the disaggregation of the concept of work versus the concept of a job. What...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of individuals' experiences or business...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of you know as the co-host of this podcast and serves as co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work project here at Harvard Business School. Bill’s new book is called The Gift of Global Talent, and it documents the significant impact of foreign-born talent on...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
include the World Economic Forum, IDEO, airlines, and many government and border operations. SEPTEMBER 18 Sara Vicente Barreto (MBA 2009) is a corporate strategist whose blog, “Make Space for Growth,” offers insights on personal and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
businesses to potentially be attacked, but companies with economic moats, we think, should be able to fend off such attacks. And on the upside, we think—and this is our analysts’ view—that certain companies and industries are going to be...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the LLM [large language model] layer and at that orchestration layer, and we’re trying to engage with every facet of society. We’ve done some work with organized labor that’s just kicking off. We certainly are very engaged with...
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