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Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams
Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …
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A survey of information projects
1972 - Ed. 3
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Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups
D'Acunto, Francesco; Fuster, Andreas; Weber, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Increasing the diversity of policy committees has taken center stage worldwide, but whether and why diverse committees are more effective is still unclear. In a randomized control trial that varies the salience of female and minority representation on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy...
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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice
Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Edmans, Alex; Flammer, Caroline; Glossner, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper measures diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) using proprietary data on survey responses used to compile the Best Companies to Work For list. We identify 13 of the 58 questions as being related to DEI, and aggregate the responses to form our DEI measure. This variable has low...
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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas
Fetter, T. Robert - 2018
In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...
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A Note on Detecting Learning by Exporting
De Loecker, Jan - 2010
Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering export markets. Although this mechanism is often mentioned in policy documents, a significant share of econometric studies has not found evidence for this hypothesis. This paper...
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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment : Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations
Egelman, Carolyn D. - 2013
Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...
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Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Raff, Daniel M. G. (contributor);  … - 1999
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Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity within U.S. Industries : Extended Supply-Use Tables and Trade in Value Added using Enterprise and Establishment Level Data
Fetzer, James J. - 2018
This paper presents experimental tables created by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis comparing industry-specific shares of the components of total output of globally engaged firms located in the United States that are part of a multinational enterprise with those of firms that are part of an...
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