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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
adopting sustainability practices over time and the implications for firm performance. We find that for almost all industries, sustainability practices converge within an industry over time, implying that they spread as common practices....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
researchers credit to the early actions of local political leadership and governmental agencies that encouraged public-private housing partnerships. Different locales do seem to have developed different conceptions of what is appropriate...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
affect it? A: The kind of technology transfer my coauthors Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and I study in our paper occurs when a parent of a multinational company provides information about industrial products or processes to an affiliate operating abroad. These...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
acquirer's CEO owns more equity. While it is not common for acquirers to retain target CEOs, we argue that they are more likely to do so when their governance environment maintains managerial discretion. Based on a joint analysis of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of marketing and sales activities in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B companies have...
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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while social cues from reputation stakeholders and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
employ to successfully return to the Red Planet. The case, "Mission to Mars," looks at changes the space agency has made not only recently but also over several decades as it followed a faster, simpler approach to program...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Common mistakes, the authors say, include failing to view disruption as a gradual process (which may lead incumbents to ignore significant threats) and blindly accepting the “Disrupt or be disrupted” mantra (which may lead incumbents to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about product quality, and price subsidies are common policy instruments. Through a field experiment selling an unfamiliar health product in...
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Anna Secino
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
principally on Fiverr and contingent work for their incomes, as opposed to having the so-called “side hustle,” which seems to be very, very common among 20- and 30-year-olds?Kaufman: We absolutely track this data. So we see a combination...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent social rating View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
are common in the United States, “no other company in India is working on this model, and it represents a huge channel innovation,” he explains. To hone iTrust’s credentials as a thought leader in financial advice, the firm quickly...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
and given out grants — I wanted to add something new to my skill set," says the Texas native. As an intern at The Home for Little Wanderers (HLW), a New England agency that serves at-risk children, their families, and communities, Weenick...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
career-convinced you should be achieving more. You may even wish you had chosen a different career altogether. These feelings often stem from a common error: buying into others' definitions of success. To reach your potential, Kaplan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
regional influences were more important, supporting sociological theories about the importance of visibility in corporate green strategies. It identifies major commonalities between corporate strategies in the German and American chemical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
static, envy-free equilibria. Furthermore, convergence is efficient, and the entry of low-quality advertisers does not slow convergence. Because our approach predominantly relies on assumptions common in the sponsored search literature,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
temporary effect on aggregate inflation and no downward effect on other goods. Second, contrary to common beliefs, we find that controlled goods are consistently available for sale. Third, firms compensate for price controls by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
institutional pressures. In this chapter, we present current research arguing that such firms adopt heterogeneous sets of environmental management practices despite facing common institutional pressures because organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne