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- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Belarus and Ukraine all began from more or less the same starting point. After the Soviet Union collapsed, all post-Soviet states were quite dependent economically on Russia. In each country, the titular ethnic View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
the benefit of racial diversity alone, done right, pays off not just in a better company, but a more productive one. In new research that focuses specifically on racial diversity, Ely said they found measurable performance benefits when work View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
sector-specific skills. The resulting scale economies generate occupational stratification along ethnic lines, consistent with the reoccurring phenomenon of small, socially isolated groups achieving...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
women in the workplace. Such stereotypes have been used for decades by majority groups to hold people back and put them down for their race, ethnic origins, sexual preferences, and religion, as well as their...
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by Bill George
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
nature and value of the skill sets brought by each would-be young worker. Each of these is a viable organization that needs time to develop. Another requirement for economic development is trust. But that's a rare thing among the fragmented View Details
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by Tarun Khanna
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
products once on the market. Longer term, the United States will clearly only become more diverse, with highly differentiated expectations for products and dissimilar risk-tolerances among different ethnic View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
from World War II Internment Firm Trade By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—We demonstrate that simply by using the ethnic makeup surrounding a firm’s location, we can predict, on average, which trade links...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
allegories play to. In large cities and urban and ethnic areas, Mountain Dew barely shows up on the radar. However, in the mostly working-class, non-urban metro areas in the Eastern half of the country, Mountain Dew "blew through the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
than existing studies because we believed that this was add greater nuance to the overall story. Although many important business leaders are discussed, we were able to devote a whole chapter to the Koç family and their business group...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
effect when umpires were a different race or ethnicity than batters, perhaps because batters are in front of an umpire for only a few pitches a game--pitchers square off face-to-face with umpires for many innings in a row. The most...
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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
contribute to the intensity of violence once conflict has started. Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
evidence that the decline in performance outcomes stems from reduced effort or increased risk taking. Instead, errors in logic lead to a decline in performance, which suggests a cognitive explanation for the negative response to increased competition. We also find that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
pipeline, it joined with Catalyst to undertake research. The result was a coalition of large companies and multiple business schools to create Forte which had as its mission to fill the pipeline for women to get MBA degrees.”), expanding the effort to include other...
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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
progressed in different parts of one country. We could keep many things constant—the conflict's ultimate goals, the personality of the leader, the tactics, the kind of a political system they already have—and focus on the role of economic and social variables. Q: Why...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
as the use of the symbol of the nation for a specific political, economic, or cultural purpose. It's the idea of the nation as a group of people connected to a project of some sort. Sometimes these projects may well be things that we...
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by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the probability of having children for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
director Tommy Kail, and producer Jeffrey Seller met to discuss how to launch Hamilton, a new musical based on the life of the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, Alexander Hamilton. With a hip-hop score and an ethnically...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
visiting professor at HBS who teaches in the School’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) global immersion course, which sends groups of students all over the world to get first-hand experience doing business in...
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by Carmen Nobel