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Oct 13, 2020
This study of foreign corporate investment transactions from 32 countries between 1976 and 2015 finds these investments pose a trade-off: While they support young firms in pursuing innovations they could not otherwise afford, they also generate knowledge for the foreign investors.
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Oct 09, 2020
This study quantifies how data center managers make a trade-off between the setup and operational costs of running a facility and capturing local demand.
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Oct 08, 2020
Humans are motivated by four drives: acquire, bond, comprehend, defend. Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams discuss how managers can use all four to keep employees engaged.
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Oct 06, 2020
This paper evaluates the optimality of retirement savings systems, finding that the best mix is a three-account system with a perfectly liquid savings account, a partially illiquid savings account (with an early-withdrawal penalty of approximately 10%), and a completely illiquid savings account.
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Oct 06, 2020
This paper by Iavor I. Bojinov and colleagues presents a framework for managers to design and run switchback experiments.
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Oct 06, 2020
Here are recent ideas for managing through the pandemic on the topics of people management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design.
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Oct 06, 2020
Here are recent ideas for managing through the pandemic on the topics of people management, strategy, marketing, and organizational design.
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Oct 05, 2020
Enjoying life requires time, but too often we willingly give it away in pursuit of money and career. Ashley Whillans shows how to restore the proper balance.
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Oct 01, 2020
A year after 181 CEOs pledged their companies to better serve social goals, critics find they have failed to do so during the pandemic. Is stakeholder capitalism in the wrong hands? asks .
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Sep 29, 2020
This study examines Intel's launch of Centrino and interprets it as a platform leader's attempt to restructure a supply chain.
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Sep 28, 2020
Francesca Gino discusses the psychology of conversation in politicized workplaces and how managers can improve their conversation styles to create higher quality collaboration.
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Sep 28, 2020
This essay discuss the role of market frictions and "missing medicines" in drug innovation and highlights how frameworks and toolkits of economists can help our understanding of the determinants and effects of Alzheimer's Disease on health.
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Sep 24, 2020
and discuss new research that shows economic crises create predicatable patterns.
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Sep 22, 2020
The pandemic presents a unique opportunity to investigate formation of beliefs about an unprecedented, widespread, and life-threatening event. One finding: COVID-19 makes the prospect of disease and death particularly salient for the young.
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Sep 22, 2020
Research by looks at how past economic downturns forced job-insecure, high-tech entrepreneurs to rush their ventures to market. Will COVID-19 do the same?
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Sep 21, 2020
A World War II spy manual offers intriguing insights into how modern management techniques may be sabotaging your organization, says .
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Sep 21, 2020
Survey data on business owners collected by the Alignable network shows that lending to bank customers in better financial positions may have been prioritized, possibly crowding out less connected firms that would have benefitted more from the loans.
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Sep 20, 2020
Society increasingly expects businesses to help solve problems of environmental degradation, inequality, and poverty. This paper explains how the Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map should be modified to reflect businesses' expanded role for society.
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Sep 17, 2020
Without financial relief from Congress, many American small-business owners may be forced to cut health insurance for employees, says .
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Sep 15, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has had large impacts on local economies and government budgets. Balanced budget requirements, not mis-management, have generated a fiscal crisis and forced state and local governments to reduce service provision precisely when it is in greatest demand.
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Sep 15, 2020
This paper studies the impact of time-dependency and data perishability on a dataset's effectiveness in creating value for a business, and shows the value of data in the search engine and advertisement businesses perishes quickly.
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Sep 14, 2020
A study of 3 million people confirms what many work-from-home employees already feel, according to research by and colleagues.
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Sep 14, 2020
The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.
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Sep 10, 2020
Leaders today face two great questions: how to survive, and how to capitalize on new opportunities. Insights from and .
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Sep 08, 2020
Lower Prices. More innovation. Better government. Transparency fuels the basic principles of competitive business and open government. Well, most of the time.
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Sep 07, 2020
In one of the largest entrepreneurial co-working spaces in the US, startups are influenced by peer startups within a distance of 20 meters. The associated advantages for learning and innovation could be lost using at-a-distance work arrangements.
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Sep 07, 2020
For small businesses that have survived the coronavirus so far, what's next? outlines steps that business owners and government should take immediately.
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Sep 03, 2020
The United States needs a health care equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase transparency and competition, argues .
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Sep 01, 2020
The increasing dominance of the digital economy has brought new questions about the interplay of organizations and the market-based ecosystem. Transaction Cost Economics theory is a useful lens to understand firm organization and possibly guide policy and regulation.
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Aug 31, 2020
State and local governments that rely heavily on sales tax revenue face increasing financial burden absent federal aid, says
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Aug 31, 2020
A firm's stock price volatility during times of uncertainty can significantly reduce workers' consumption and savings decisions. This paper sheds light on the economic effects of uncertainty, and in particular, how firms provide insurance to their workers during periods of turmoil.
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Aug 31, 2020
Why do organizations continue to ignore the benefits of building racial diversity into their leadership ranks? asks .
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Aug 30, 2020
In the wake of COVID-19, firms announced both employee furloughs and (typically small) CEO wage cuts. This research shows that firms' treatment of employees matters far more to consumers than executive pay cuts.
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Aug 24, 2020
Performance hacking (or p-hacking for short) means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives to p-hack. If p-hacking behaviours are not checked, a crash becomes inevitable.
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Aug 24, 2020
A new survey suggests that at least 16 percent of employees will remain at-home workers long after COVID-19 recedes, report researchers , , and .
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Aug 24, 2020
Evidence from two field experiments concerning early-stage scientific proposals suggests that evaluators tend to systematically focus on the weaknesses of proposed work rather than its strengths.
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Aug 20, 2020
Many technologies have upended long-held beliefs about love, sex, marriage, and reproduction, says in a new book, "Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny."
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Aug 20, 2020
Shared service delivery means that customers are served in groups rather than individually. Results from a large-scale study of glaucoma follow-up appointments at a major eye hospital indicate that shared service delivery can significantly improve patients' verbal and non-verbal engagement.
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Aug 20, 2020
Investors can gain substantially if investment managers choose less-diversified portfolios that tilt more towards their best ideas.
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Aug 17, 2020
Cycles of liberation and regulation of global finance follow a pattern of learning and forgetting. This essay argues that liberalization and globalization created the instability and inequality that have begun to undermine the system from within.
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Aug 17, 2020
Survey evidence from eight countries indicates strong gender differences in people's belief that COVID-19 represents a serious health risk and in their agreement and compliance with restraining policy measures.
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Aug 17, 2020
The Stockdale Paradox and survival psychology contain wisdom for how leaders can manage the coronavirus crisis, according to and .
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Aug 13, 2020
and colleagues offer managers solutions to ease the stress many employees are experiencing.
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Aug 12, 2020
Forty percent of American investors rely on financial advisers, but the COVID-19 market rollercoaster may have highlighted a weakness when disputes arise. The system favors the financial industry, says .
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Aug 10, 2020
This study of 16 cities is the first large-scale analysis of how digital communication patterns have changed in the early stages of the pandemic.
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Aug 10, 2020
Women scientists and those with young children are paying a steep career price in the pandemic, according to new research by , , and colleagues.
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Aug 06, 2020
Even the most powerful leaders need professional guidance occasionally. But with so many types of mentors to choose from, how do they find the right person? offers her own advice on advisers.
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Aug 06, 2020
Even the most powerful leaders need support and guidance occasionally. offers advice own how and where to find the right type of mentor.
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Aug 02, 2020
Do companies that embrace digital experimentation hold a difficult-to-break competitive advantage? asks .
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Aug 02, 2020
The United States entered World War II during one of the worst periods of racial discrimination in post-Civil War history. This paper examines the social costs of this discrimination, with clear implications for policymakers.
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Jul 29, 2020
At least 16 percent of American workers will switch from office-based settings to working at home at least two days per week after COVID-19 subsides. This has significant implications for companies, employees, and policymakers alike.
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Jul 29, 2020
Case studies about The Conservation Fund and Sonen Capital highlight three broad lessons about fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland.
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Jul 28, 2020
Poor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. and colleagues offer tips for reducing the risk, used by Airbnb and other companies.
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Jul 27, 2020
studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection.
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Jul 27, 2020
Resolving uncertainty related to market demand—so called "product-market" fit—marks a key inflection point in the compensation contract for CEOs of venture-capital backed firms.
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Jul 27, 2020
Analysis of data from the largest open-access repositories for social science in the world finds that female researchers' productivity significantly dropped relative to that of male researchers as a result of the lockdown in the United States.
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Jul 27, 2020
studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection.
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Jul 23, 2020
Developing countries have fewer fiscal tools and policy options to combat COVID-19 damage to their economies, according to research by and colleagues.
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Jul 21, 2020
Findings from a nationwide survey underscore the importance of demand projections and interdependencies among businesses for owners' reopening decisions. Businesses expect the demand for their services will be greatly depressed for many months to come.
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Jul 20, 2020
and prescribe a seemingly impossible cure for battling health care options: a plan that embraces both Republican and Democratic ideas.
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Jul 20, 2020
While graduating students are often exhorted to do work they love to do, those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to feel that they are a fit for and have the skills to thrive in a job that calls for passion.
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Jul 19, 2020
Does more activity in open source software development lead to increased entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source platform affects the founding of new ventures globally.
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Jul 16, 2020
Top restaurant operators share their experiences attempting to survive the pandemic, and how they see the future. Research by , , and .
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