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Corporate purpose and financial performance
Gartenberg, Claudine; Prat, Andrea; Serafeim, George - 2016
performance. However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms … higher future accounting and stock market performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation … of their organization and the clarity in the path towards that purpose experience better performance …
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Studying the U.S.-based portfolio companies of U.S. impact investors
Burton, M. Diane; Chadha, Gurveen; Cole, Shawn; Dev, … - 2021
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Female inventors and inventions
Koning, Rembrand; Samila, Sampsa; Ferguson, John-Paul - 2019
Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women? In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using data on the universe of US biomedical patents, we find that patents with women inventors are significantly more...
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Immigration policy levers for U.S. : innovation and startups
Kerr, William R.; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2020
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for employment-based purposes. We...
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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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