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Essays on Innovation, Productivity, and Talent Allocation

Author : Pian Shu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Innovation, Productivity, and Talent Allocation written by Pian Shu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contains three essays on innovation, productivity, and talent allocation. The first essay explores a novel channel through which short-term economic fluctuations affect the long-term innovative output of the economy: innovators' accumulation of human capital. Using a newly constructed data set on the patenting history of all individuals obtaining a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 1980 and 2005, I find that cohorts graduating during booms produce significantly fewer patents over the subsequent two decades. Initial economic conditions do not affect inventors' long-term occupational affiliation, suggesting that the main differences lie in their long-term level of inventive human capital. The decrease in patent output of cohorts graduating during booms is mainly from inventors with relatively low GPAs, and marginal patents receive fewer citations than the rest. The second essay uses the 2008 financial crisis as a natural experiment to study the characteristics of recent graduates from MIT bachelor programs who pursued a career in finance immediately after graduation. I find that finance competes against science and engineering graduate programs for the best talent from MIT but values academic skills less. As a result of endogenous skill development during college, financiers have significantly lower academic skills than students entering graduate school at graduation, despite having similar levels of raw academic talent measured at college entrance. Marginal financiers have lower starting salaries than average financiers, suggesting that there is positive selection into finance. The third essay examines the asset accumulation and labor force participation of Social Security Disability Insurance applicants. Using the RAND Health and Retirement Study panel data, I provide empirical support for the theory that an imperfectly screened disability insurance program encourages individuals who dislike work to save more in the present and plan to apply for disability insurance in the future, regardless of their future health. Despite exhibiting lower labor force attachment and earning less than accepted applicants, rejected applicants have significantly more assets immediately prior to their application, but not in the several years before. Although imperfect, the current screening differentiates the applicants in meaningful ways without using assets as an additional criterion.

Kauffman Dissertation Executive Summary

Author : Pian Shu
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Kauffman Dissertation Executive Summary written by Pian Shu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contains three essays on innovation, productivity, and talent allocation. In Chapter 1, I use data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1980 to 2005 to study how short-term variations in economic conditions at the time of college graduation impact individuals' long-term patent production. Chapter 2 examines the characteristics of financiers and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on selection into finance, using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 2006 to 2010. Chapter 3 discusses the asset accumulation patterns of the Social Security Disability Insurance applicants and the implications on their labor force participation decisions.

Time, Talent, Energy

Author : Michael C. Mankins
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691772
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Time, Talent, Energy written by Michael C. Mankins and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Your Scarcest Resources Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage them, but most of it focuses on individual actions. What's really needed are organizational solutions that can unleash a company's full productive power and enable it to outpace competitors. Building off of the popular Harvard Business Review article "Your Scarcest Resource," Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, Bain & Company experts in organizational design and effectiveness, present new research into how you can liberate people's time, talent, and energy and unleash your organization's productive power. They identify the specific causes of organizational drag--the collection of institutional factors that slow things down, decrease output, and drain people's energy--and then offer a pragmatic framework for how managers can overcome it. With practical advice for using the framework and in-depth examples of how the best companies manage their people's time, talent, and energy with as much discipline as they do their financial capital, this book shows managers how to create a virtuous circle of high performance.

Management Innovation

Author : William Lazonick
Publisher : OUP UK
ISBN 13 : 0199695687
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Management Innovation written by William Lazonick and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the work, ideas, and influence of the doyen of business historians, Alfred Chandler, particularly on management innovation, strategy, organization, and finance.

Essays on Research and Development, Innovation and Productivity

Author : Van Anh Vuong
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Research and Development, Innovation and Productivity written by Van Anh Vuong and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity

Author : National Bureau of Economic Research
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879760
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity written by National Bureau of Economic Research and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Productivity

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Productivity, a Selected, Annotated Bibliography

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Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book Productivity, a Selected, Annotated Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Author : Wim Naudé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230295150
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship and Economic Development written by Wim Naudé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies. The book critically dissects the evolving relationship between entrepreneurs and the state.

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Author : David B. Audretsch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781849807760
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by David B. Audretsch and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking Handbook analyses the foundations, social desirability, institutions and geography of innovation and entrepreneurship. Leading researchers use their outstanding expertise to investigate various aspects in the context of innovation and entrepreneurship such as growth, knowledge production and spillovers, technology transfer, the organization of the firm, industrial policy, financing, small firms and start-ups, and entrepreneurship education as well as the characteristics of the entrepreneur. There is much in this Handbook that will prove to be informative and stimulating, especially for academics and post-graduate students in economics and management. Those starting a PhD in innovation or entrepreneurship will find this book essential reading.

The Gift of Global Talent

Author : William R. Kerr
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607364
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Global Talent written by William R. Kerr and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital. This foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The future is quite uncertain, and the global talent puzzle deserves close examination. To do this, William R. Kerr uniquely combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision making. Examining popular ideas that have taken hold and synthesizing rigorous research across fields such as entrepreneurship and innovation, regional advantage, and economic policy, Kerr gives voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice. The Gift of Global Talent deftly transports readers from joyous celebrations at the Nobel Prize ceremony to angry airport protests against the Trump administration's travel ban. It explores why talented migration drives the knowledge economy, describes how universities and firms govern skilled admissions, explains the controversies of the H-1B visa used by firms like Google and Apple, and discusses the economic inequalities and superstar firms that global talent flows produce. The United States has been the steward of a global gift, and this book explains the huge leadership decision it now faces and how it can become even more competitive for attracting tomorrow's talent. Please visit www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/research/Pages/default.aspx to learn more about the book.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution

Author : Simon Kuznets
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521963
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution written by Simon Kuznets and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier work. The first four chapters deal with 'modern economic growth'. Chapters five to seven introduce the main theme of the remainder of the volume: interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. Chapters eight to ten draw on a wider set of data to make comparisons of income inequality among societies at widely different levels of development. Chapter eleven returns to data for the United States to develop more fully the importance of differing childbearing patterns for income inequality. In the introduction Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings. In the afterword Professor Robert Fogel discusses the methodologies favoured by Kuznets.

Bulletin

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Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Foundations of Entrepreneurship

Author : Scott Shane
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Entrepreneurship written by Scott Shane and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set is concerned with the discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities to create goods and services. The articles (published between 1945 and 2000) are organized in the form of a 14-week doctoral seminar to introduce students to a scholarly understanding of the field. Volume I (26 selections) discusses the process of entrepreneurship, different perspectives on the existence of entrepreneurial opportunities and why some people and not others discover them, and aspects of the backgrounds and psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs that motivate and influence them to exploit opportunities. Volume II (27 articles) covers important issues in the process of exploiting entrepreneural opportunities through market-mediated transactions as well as through firm creation, industry and societal-level factors that influence firm formation, assembling financial and human resources, designing new organizations, and creating new markets. The concluding section identifies the most important readings interested researchers will need to master to understand the basic framework of scholarly inquiry in the field. There is no subject index. Edited by Scott Shane (entrepreneurship, U. of Maryland). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Modern Essays

Author : Swati aggarwal
Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN 13 : 9351769275
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Modern Essays written by Swati aggarwal and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays number of competitive and recruitment examinations test the writing ability of the aspirants by including a descriptive English section in the exam. The Descriptive English section covers essay and passage writing to evaluate the effective writing skills of the aspirants. The present book contains ample number of modern essays which are or may be asked in a number of competitive & recruitment examinations. The present book on Modern Essays has been divided into ten sections namely Current Affairs, Society & Social Issues, Economy & Infrastructure, Education, Science & Technology, Great Personalities, Constructive Writing: General Topics, Environment, Ecology & Climate, Famous Proverbs & Sayings and Miscellaneous. The Current Affairs section covers Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), Make in India: Mission to Glory, Ebola, Kailash Satyarthi, etc whereas the Society & Social Issues contains Social Evils, Curse of Dowry System, Female Foeticide, Drug Abuse, Generation Gap, Corruption in India, Population Explosion, Poverty in India, etc. The Economy & Infrastructure section covers Agriculture in India, An Indian Farmer, Mineral Wealth of India, Banking in India, Economic Reforms, Indian Economy, Globalisation, etc whereas the Education section covers Right to Education (RTE), Vocational Education, Sex Education in School, etc. The Science & Technology section has been divided into Internet Boon, India: A Software Super Power, Blossoming of Social Media, Health Advancements, A Flat on Moon, Cloning, etc. whereas the Great Personalities section covers Ashoka the Great, Nelson Mandela, Sir CV Raman, Kalpana Chawla, Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, MS Dhoni, Milkha Singh, Mary Kom, etc. The Constructive Writing section has been divided into Independence Day, My Childhood Memories, My Favorite Games, On the Top of the World, The Role of Indian Cinema, My Favourite Author, etc whereas the Environment, Ecology & Climate covers Forests of India, Wildlife of India, The Fury of Floods, Climate Change, Green Revolution, Tiger Conservation, Earthquake: A Natural Calamity, etc. The Famous Proverbs & Sayings section covers A Thing of Beauty if a Joy Forever, All that Glitters is Not Gold, Boys Prefer Sports, Girls Prefer Clothes, Look Before You Leap, Sweet are the Uses of Adversity, Small is Beautiful, etc whereas the Miscellaneous section covers Indian Railways: In Need of Revival, Meditation: The Ultimate Nirvana, Online Shopping, Delhi Metro, Photography, Information Media, Right to Information (RTI), etc. As the book contains ample number of sample essays of varied variety, it for sure will prove to be beneficial for essay writing for school students and for different competitive examinations.

Democratizing Innovation

Author : Eric Von Hippel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262250179
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Democratizing Innovation written by Eric Von Hippel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy. Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users—both individuals and firms—often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation. He explains why and when users find it profitable to develop new products and services for themselves, and why it often pays users to reveal their innovations freely for the use of all.The trend toward democratized innovation can be seen in software and information products—most notably in the free and open-source software movement—but also in physical products. Von Hippel's many examples of user innovation in action range from surgical equipment to surfboards to software security features. He shows that product and service development is concentrated among "lead users," who are ahead on marketplace trends and whose innovations are often commercially attractive. Von Hippel argues that manufacturers should redesign their innovation processes and that they should systematically seek out innovations developed by users. He points to businesses—the custom semiconductor industry is one example—that have learned to assist user-innovators by providing them with toolkits for developing new products. User innovation has a positive impact on social welfare, and von Hippel proposes that government policies, including R&D subsidies and tax credits, should be realigned to eliminate biases against it. The goal of a democratized user-centered innovation system, says von Hippel, is well worth striving for. An electronic version of this book is available under a Creative Commons license.