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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. In our first laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We also show in a second study...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
role in stemming the damage. "They are investing about three times more than the average firm in climate change mitigation technology." “They are investing about three times more than the average firm in climate change mitigation...
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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
However, we find that the rate of patent growth was faster among counties that were not leaders in patenting in the early 1990s but were leaders in Internet adoption by 2000, suggesting that the Internet helped stem the trend towards more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the current review integrates multiple streams of research relevant to brokerage and brokering—including those on structural holes, organizational innovation, boundary spanning, social and political skill, workplace gossip, third-party conflict managers, and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Organization Tax Aversion in Labor Supply By: Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
suggested a tech security recruiting push aimed at women akin to the “Rosie the Riveter” campaign of World War II.) Bonaparte offers the example of how universities are attempting to attract more women to STEM careers. If a school wanted...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
1609 to 2008.” America explains that his focus is on these centuries of unjust enrichment, which he defines as “the illicit transfer or systematic taking of other peoples’ land, resources, or labor by force, fraud, and manipulation.”...
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- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
2002. Walmart grew significantly, expanded internationally, and became a leading player in groceries. However, it also faced criticism regarding its wage and labor practices. Meanwhile, Kmart faced an identity crisis, falling between the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the massive Asian View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Working PapersSecuring Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract Read the news of recent computer security guffaws, and it's striking how many problems stem from online...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
segregation over time. We demonstrate that the return of racial establishment segregation owes little to within-establishment processes but rather stems from differences in the turnover rates of more- and less-homogeneous workplaces....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 William F. Lincoln Abstract—We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
avoided because of cultural norms. I founded SHE in 2008, and its first initiative, SHE28, was created to stem the significant costs to the health, education, productivity, and dignity of women and girls in the developing world caused by...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
fellow Dan Katzir (MBA '91), director of The Broad Foundation, a Los Angeles–based venture philanthropy organization that funds innovative efforts to improve governance, management, and labor relations in large urban school systems. Both...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
delivers perfect results in equilibrium. This result stems from the fact that a sender's willingness to invest in improving the precision of their messages can itself serve as a signal. Interestingly, the content of the messages is...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
odds and get better. (Editor's note: Wang suffered a stem cell stroke in 2010 and is a quadriplegic mute with "locked-in syndrome." She uses eye-tracking technology to communicate by computer and to operate a motorized wheelchair. Wang...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
to 4.4 percent higher if more women and African Americans participated in the innovation process, especially at the very beginning, where there is education in STEM fields, for example, and training. So those are the two periods that I’ve...
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