Showing articles by Howell, Sabrina T.
Innovation Investment and Labor Mobility: Employee Entrepreneurship from Corporate R&D
How does corporate research and development (R&D) investment affect employees? This paper examines the effect of R&D on employee retention and moves out of the firm. We are motivated by the importance of R&D to economic growth. In the process of generating new knowledge, technology, and skills, R&D is also…
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When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education
This paper studies the role of private equity in for-profit higher education.
Private equity and formerly private equity owned schools account for approximately 35 percent of total US for-profit enrollment, which in turn totals more than 2.5 million students per year. Relative to closely-held private firms or diffusely-held publicly traded…
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