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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
and Siddharth Shenai Abstract We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and religiously fractionalized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
the discouraging trends she sees are political and religious attacks that stifle science and innovation; growing unease and pressure in the workplace; too few companies recognizing obligations to their communities as well as to their...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where “lines and boxes” still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid and business strategy is no longer about...
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- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Journal of Labor Economics. Perhaps more than any other profession, we hold religious leaders above such base incentives as money. At the same time, it's the rare individual for whom money isn't at least part of a factor in the work they...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the communities in which they operate....
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
the planet rather than consume it. Jones explores the social and religious beliefs of these individuals, how they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
now? Zuboff and Maxmin: A century ago mass consumption was on the rise. People wanted more things. The answer was to produce more goods at an ever-lower cost—mass production. Corporations were organized around a managerial hierarchy...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass migrations from poor to rich...
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Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA
Ethnological Museum, we arrive at the Holy Trinity Church. It was built to commemorate Ethiopia's liberation from Italian occupation and is the second most important place of worship in Ethiopia. In observance of religious customs and...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
organizations. One set of activities shown to improve organizational learning of new work practices is learn-how. Learn-how refers to learning activities that combine experimentation, adaptation-in-use, and staff participation (e.g., dry runs). This paper proposes that...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books including Attitudes In and Around View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract This article identifies five problematic issues in the intersection of work and life that create human resource challenges for organizations and their employees....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
of experience. “Although I was often part of privileged communities, from very early on, I frequently identified with those who were excluded.” Enrolling at Princeton, Massie became an activist, particularly regarding South Africa and divestment. More importantly, he...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the right time can save or destroy the...
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Sean Silverthorne