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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a freelancer myself—not very extensively, but using freelancers pretty extensively—had me thinking about the fact that this was a very large market that had a tremendous amount of friction. I mean, just putting two people to work together...
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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
Abstract—Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Yeah. So give us some tangible examples of customers and how they’re using this technology.Dines: We have started mostly in the financial industry. Big banks, big insurance companies, were our initial customers. And we have some of the...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Altruism and solidarity were also significant drivers in the private sector, resulting in large part from the long-standing tradition of charity and civil commitment derived from the region's powerful Catholic background.2 For some...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
capital that they needed to grow. A second model is the small business investment partnership or SBIC, to get equity capital into small businesses that venture capital isn't reaching. Private investors make...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
"Dutch" Leonard Periodical:California Management Review 51, no. 1 (fall 2008): 77-102 Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such...
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Martha Lagace
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engender entrepreneurship and adaptability while maintaining control and realizing economies. All companies, whether large diversified multinationals or small entrepreneurial startups wrestle with these...
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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly...
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by Roger Thompson
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
class, venture capital has produced high cyclical returns that mirror trends in capital markets and in markets for new technology. There is a large disparity in median and upper quantize performance. A small...
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- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side analysts from mid-1997 to 2004. We find that the buy-side firm's analysts issue less optimistic recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Tetiaroa, French Polynesia by Richard H. Bailey (MBA 1981) (Tahiti Beachcomber S.A.) Bailey, the president and CEO of Pacific Beachcomber, published this coffee-table book on the beautiful Tetiaroa atoll, a collection of 12 small islands...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
the country's leaders will be making in the coming months, decisions "that will shape our world for years, possibly decades to come." Leimsider urged reflection and debate on topics such as civilian casualties in time of war, personal freedom View Details
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
Amy, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Peter Glick, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies tested whether cultural values moderate the content of gender stereotypes, such that male stereotypes more closely align with core cultural values...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
people migrating around the world, but it was a relatively small amount compared with what we’ve seen today and the transformative effects. Let me try to maybe make a measurement around that. In the United States, in 1975, about one out...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
about their exclusion, do you see it as being due to technology being misapplied, shortcomings of HR, or some other factors?Fuller: Well, we were trying to understand what caused employers to skip over large numbers of applicants. These...
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- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,...
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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
I test for learning vs. effort allocation effects of promotion-based incentives. I find that promotion and demotion decisions for store managers of a major U.S.-based fast-food retailer (QSR) are sensitive to nonfinancial performance...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
to invest in social service provision. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212055-PDF-ENG China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor Shawn Cole and Lilei XuHarvard Business School Case 212-030 China Life must decide...
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Sean Silverthorne