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    • 31 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

    by Kasandra Brabaw

    One in 10 people in America lack health insurance, resulting in $40 billion of care that goes unpaid each year. Amitabh Chandra and colleagues say ensuring basic coverage for all residents, as other wealthy nations do, could address the most acute needs and unlock efficiency.

    • 06 Aug 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision

    by Ryan Raffaelli and Richard DeJordy

    Swiss watchmaking embodies the classic strategic paradox created by the introduction of new technology: the choice between resisting and defending, or embracing and prospecting. This paper offers a model for how fields and organizational leaders experiencing similar paradoxes can adapt to environmental change while still preserving valuable aspects of their past success.

    • 21 Jan 2016
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    The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries

    by Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, Stanislav Sokolinksi & Karen Wilson

    Examining a cross-section of 13 angel groups who considered transactions across 21 countries, this study finds that angel investors have a positive impact on the growth of the firms they fund, their performance, and survival, while the selection of firms that apply for angel funding varies across countries.

    • 28 Jul 2015
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    Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970–2008

    by Ryan Raffaelli

    Focusing on Swiss watchmaking from 1970 to 2008, this study demonstrates key factors that contribute to, and influence, the re-emergence of market demand for a legacy technology in a mature institutional field. This paper shows how processes of preservation and transformation serve as necessary counterweights that encourage retaining some valued elements of the old institutional order alongside new elements that allow for change and survival. Closed for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 15 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

    by Carmen Nobel

    Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time, according to research by Kathleen McGinn and colleagues. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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