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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
health choices. The good news is that human nature can also be a source of solutions. Through her studies in Zambia exploring the reasons for unwanted pregnancies and the incentives that would motivate hairdressers to sell condoms to...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
primary sources of institutional change become especially apparent when one considers large-scale institutions such as healthcare, academic disciplines, or social services, which are nested within or cut across a variety of institutional...
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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70 million) and II ($250 million) emphasized careful targeting of sectors and in-depth work to develop the portfolio companies post-acquisition. With the industry's greater velocity and deal size, can...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
efficiency also had more conventional paths to market based on licensing deals to large seed companies. Alternatively, Arcadia could acquire a seed company and develop and market its seed directly. A different near-term growth area...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
of the design of crowdfunding platforms can therefore be understood as attempts to deal with attendant "free-rider" problems in motivating contributions. Reviewing institutional features of today's crowdfunding, we clarify that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
fill. Are HR leaders equipped to deal with this situation? What tools and training do they require to meet the moment? And how should the C-suite approach human capital management over the long term?Welcome to the Managing the Future of...
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- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
Tufano Abstract Financial innovation has been both praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
with Lula and had to decide what to do to attenuate these political pressures. What could Agnelli do to deal with political pressures at home? Was the purchase of large vessels to ship iron ore to Asia a good decision at a time when the...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
obscuring a source of turnover, lack of productivity. Similarly, if you don’t keep track of your care demographics, you don’t know who is at what point in that arc of the metronome, back and forth, about regular care events. Employers,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
career: Kelly Services’ Peter Quigley on reinventing work and creating good jobs In its 75 years, Kelly Services has gone from temp agency to skills broker, outsourcing firm, workforce development provider, and source of labor market...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
stuff, a lot of recorded stuff. But we do a number of things to make it easy to learn the culture and to appreciate the culture. So, for example, we don’t use outside recruiters. The hiring manager takes a very personal approach to getting to know every candidate from...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
editors at Harvard Business Press, suggested the Times project to me; and as a historian I thought it would be a terrific opportunity to gain deep exposure to the primary source reporting that newspapers afford. When I was doing research...
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
all female leaders must deal with ambivalent reactions rooted in gender stereotypes. Generally, the assertive, dominant behavior typical among leaders tends to be viewed as atypical and unattractive in women. Studies of attitudes toward...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
worth of a new industry. Analyses of data from multiple sources revealed that framing by early entrepreneurs and the socio-cognitive processes that resulted from the transactions of field-constituents with the new industry constructed the...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
a team they trusted—and especially me. Our near-catastrophe became a source of guidance: Which decisions, large and small, would most likely preserve and strengthen the confidence of our backers? It has proven a useful guide then and in...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
source of competitive advantage for American employers, but that it was declining fast. And it was just stark in the data. And I naively asked, “Who’s studying this?” And the answer was, “Nobody.” And I said, ”Why?” And they said, ”Well,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
teach people different skills. And we think we can power, and we are in active conversations and empowering many of these programs, pathways to employment, and more positive outcomes.Fuller: Is it more challenging, or is it basically just the Handshake model, but...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a much better deal from the...
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Martha Lagace