NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY Nicholas Bloom John Van Reenen Working Paper 16019 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16019 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 May 2010 This paper has been prepared for a chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics Volume IV edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter. We would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council for their financial support through the Center for
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THE EMERGENCE OF NEW AND SUCCESSFUL EXPORT ACTIVITIES IN BRAZIL: FOUR CASE STUDIES FROM THE MANUFACTURING AND THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR Angela da Rocha Joana Monteiro Beatriz Kury Alexandre Darzé JANUARY‚ 2007 A REPORT PREPARED BY NUPIN/COPPEAD/UFRJ FOR THE INTERAMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK 1 Angela da Rocha Full Professor NUPIN Coordinator COPPEAD / UFRJ Joana Monteiro Senior Consultant DAI Brazil Beatriz Kury Senior Researcher NUPIN COPPEAD / UFRJ Alexandre Darzé Senior Consultant
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~ Pergamon Engineering Fracture Mechanics Vol. 54‚ No. 2‚ pp. 263-300‚ 1996 Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd. 0013-7944(95)00178-6 Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0013-7944/96 $15.00+ 0.00 A HISTORY OF FATIGUEt WALTER SCHLITZ IABG‚ D-85521 Ottobrunn‚ Germany Abstract--The history of fatigue from 1838 to the present is described in detail‚ with special emphasis on the German contribution in the time period of 1920-1945. A number of distinguished scientists and engineers
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Why Study Literature? Thursday in one of my Introduction to Literature courses‚ one of my students said‚ "Ma ’am‚ I have a question. No disrespect‚ but...." We all know the feeling that comes with any question or remark that begins that way. I thought‚ "Oh boy. Here it comes." "...Why do we need to learn this? Is my commander going to send me a poem and ask me to explicate it?" This question always flummoxes me--not because I have no answer‚ but because the answers are so obvious to me
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HenriClaude de Bettignies‚ CEIBS Peter Lacy‚ EABIS Tom Dunfee‚ U. Pennsylvania Gilbert Lenssen‚ EABIS Ed Freeman‚ U. Virginia Elena Bonfiglioli‚ Microsoft Bruce Kogut‚ INSEAD Celia Moore‚ IBM Eric Orts‚ U. Pennsylvania Brigitte TantawiMonsou‚ WBCSD (formerly‚ Unilever) Peter Pruzan‚ CBS Frank Welvaert‚ Johnson & Johnson David Vogel‚ U. C. Berkeley Mark Wade‚ (formerly) Shell Jim Walsh‚ U. Michigan RESPONSE: understanding and responding to societal demands on corporate responsibility
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ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY CURRENT TRENDS IN Edited by Hillel Fradkin Husain Haqqani Eric Brown Volume 3 Center on Islam‚ Democracy‚ and The Future of the Muslim World Copyright © 2006 by Hudson Institute‚ Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in Washington‚ D.C. by Kirby Lithographic Company‚ Inc. About the Hudson Institute Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security‚ prosperity‚ and freedom. We
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