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Actually Friday: Team Synchrony 26 Jul 2013 | 07:46 pm
We've taken to translating research into practical recommendations for entrepreneurs, and now Startup Weekend is getting in on the action. Find a new paper on the importance of team synchrony here.
Do Games at Work Help Productivity? 25 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
I featured some research by Ethan Mollick back in March for Practically Friday. In his latest work with Nancy Rothbard, Mandatory Fun: Gamification and the Impact of Games at Work [available here], he...
Earned and Unearned Consumer Rewards 11 Jul 2013 | 06:23 pm
Today I’m discussing the forthcoming paper “Consumer Reaction to Unearned Preferential Treatment” (available here) by Lan Jiang, Joandrea Hoegg, and Darren W. Dahl. The authors are interest in prefere...
Pitch Advice 10 Jul 2013 | 09:07 pm
At the Wall Street Journal, from our vice president of Entrepreneurship Thom Ruhe. My favorite term to love-hate (not featured in the article) would probably be entréepreneur. One thing is almost cer...
The Ideal CEO for Success 27 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm
The CEO of a company affects its performance, for better or worse. Steven N. Kaplan, Mark M. Klebanov, and Morten Sorenson, in their paper “Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter?” [available ...
The Hannibal Bridge 27 Jun 2013 | 12:13 am
As Google Fiber continues to expand to Kansas City metropolitan area cities, we might reflect on a different time period in Kansas City infrastructural history when the first railroad bridge to cross ...
Startups and the Great Recession: The Housing Story 14 Jun 2013 | 03:19 am
Census researchers Teresa Fort, John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, and Javier Miranda have released a new working paper, "How Firms Respond to Business Cycles: The Role of Firm Age and Firm Size" (avail...
Self-Employment Earnings Puzzle 24 May 2013 | 03:00 am
I have been reading "The Entrepreneurial Earnings Puzzle: Mismeasurement or Real?" a working paper by Thomas Åstebro and Jing Chen, that looks at the research literature on entrepreneurs' earnings (pa...
Self-Employment Earnings Puzzle 24 May 2013 | 03:00 am
I have been reading "The Entrepreneurial Earnings Puzzle: Mismeasurement or Real?" a working paper by Thomas Åstebro and Jing Chen, that looks at the research literature on entrepreneurs' earnings (pa...
What’s the Best Way to Hire Employees? 16 May 2013 | 06:45 pm
New research by Stephen V. Burks, Bo Cowgill, Mitchell Hoffman, and Michael Gene Housman looks at the performance of employees hired as a result of a referral vs. those hired from other sources. They ...
