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Dallas Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Denver Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Digital Currencies: The U.S., China, and the World at a Crossroads
This multidisciplinary report explores the economic and sociopolitical motives for China’s central bank digital currency and its implications for privacy, international security, and the leading role of the United States in global finance. Among…
Disrupting Education: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Bringing Together the Future of Education and the Future of Work
Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence?
Worker persistence — the ability to focus on a task for long periods of time — is often highlighted as essential to success. However, computers are extraordinarily persistent, particularly for routine, repetitive work. This potentially reduces…
Do Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality?
We study the effects of corporate taxes on income inequality. Using state corporate taxes as a setting, we provide evidence that corporate tax cuts lead to increases in income inequality. This result is robust across regression, matching, and…
Do Social Movements Improve Corporate Behavior? A Discussion and Research Agenda
Corporations have faced a rising tide of activism by social movements over the past generation. Consumer boycotts, protests, divestment campaigns, shareholder proposals, and employee insurgencies have all become near-daily occurrences. At the…
Does Design Thinking Training Increase Creativity? Results from a Field Experiment with Middle-School Students
Design thinking remains mired in controversy. Its proponents claim that it enhances not just confidence but also creativity, while the opponents question whether it does anything beyond building unfounded confidence. To bring rigorous evidence to…
Equilibria in Repeated Games under No-Regret with Dynamic Benchmarks
In repeated games, strategies are often evaluated by their ability to guarantee the performance of the single best action that is selected in hindsight, a property referred to as Hannan consistency, or no-regret. However, the effectiveness of the…
Exchange Rate Reconnect
It is surprisingly difficult to find economic variables that strongly comove with exchange rates, a phenomenon codified in a large literature as “exchange rate disconnect.” We demonstrate that a variety of common proxies for global risk appetite…
Financial Resources Impact the Relationship between Meaning and Happiness
Do financial resources relate to how important meaning is for one’s happiness? Across three large-scale datasets spanning over 500,000 individuals across 123 countries, we examined the relationship between meaning and happiness for individuals…
Hierarchical Community Detection by Recursive Partitioning
The problem of community detection in networks is usually formulated as finding a single partition of the network into some “correct” number of communities. We argue that it is more interpretable and in some regimes more accurate to construct a…
Houston Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…
Including Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Ethics in Calibrating MBA Job Preferences
Our research studies 759 MBAs graduating from eleven business schools to gain insight into what MBAs in the 21st Century care about during their job searches. We update the MBA job preference literature by using adaptive conjoint analysis to…
Interference and Decision-Making in Marketplace Experimentation
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Las Vegas Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights…
Leading with Values
As societies become more polarized, there is increasing pressure for business leaders to have a sense of purpose and to make moral decisions. Being a good leader requires both a keen understanding of the realities of human decision making as well…
Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards
Online discussion platforms (often referred to as discussion boards) are designed for facilitating remote discussions between users. To stimulate engagement (e.g., participation in the discussion), these platforms offer arriving users a ranked…
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship
Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative surveyed 15,000 employer businesses in 2021 as part of its annual national survey to assess the current state of U.S. Latino entrepreneurship. We have compiled some of the most pressing insights about…