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Chief Marketing Officers at Work
Steimle, Josh - 2016
Read 29 in-depth, candid interviews with people holding the top marketing roles within their organizations. Interviewees include CMOs and other top marketers from established companies and organizations-such as Linda Boff of GE, Jeff Jones of Target, and Kenny Brian of the Harvard Business...
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New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates : An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires
Blau, Francine D. - 2010
Using a large sample of establishments drawn from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) employer survey, we …
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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems
Frederiksen, Anders - 2017
We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that supervisors vary widely in how they rate subordinates of similar quality. To...
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What Do Performance Appraisals Do?
Cappelli, Peter - 2016
This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find that employee appraisal scores vary considerably both...
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What Drives Aggregate Investment? Evidence from German Survey Data
Bachmann, Rudi - 2013
The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …
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The Potential Use of In-Home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys
Leicester, Andrew - 2013
such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …
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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods
Barrett, Garry F. - 2013
This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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Challenges in Constructing a Survey-Based Well-Being Index
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2017
, and Szembrot, 2014), which uses self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey …
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Appliance Ownership and Aspirations Among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya
Lee, Kenneth - 2016
summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …
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Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets
Lee, Robin S. - 2009
We introduce the interview assignment problem, which generalizes the one-to-one matching model of Gale and Shapley (1962) by introducing a stage of costly information acquisition. Firms learn preferences over workers via costly interviews. Even if all firms and workers conduct the same number of...
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