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- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
to determine whether couples registered at the same time; this indicated a joint decision to donate. Of 806 married registrants in the sample, co-registrants accounted for 308, or 38.2 percent. The team found that married registrants in... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare... View Details
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
organizational differences could account for about 16% of international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Business School professors who have signed the petition, and asked them to share why they openly oppose the Executive Order. Here are their initial responses. David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico During the Great Depression 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt proposes New Deal programs to Congress Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal Art of the New Deal 1935 National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed 1938 Fair... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
from West to East, but from East to West. And it is a mighty flow. In 2007, the United States needed to borrow around $800 billion from the rest of the world; more than $4 billion every working day. China, by contrast, ran a current View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop paying office rent — upwards of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
cross-state spillovers or business-stealing from one state to another are important, but do not account for all of the effect. Agglomeration effects from local innovation clusters tend to weaken responsiveness to taxation. Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10
purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. The standard permanent income or lifecycle theory of consumption predicts that grocery spending will be unaffected by the use of a $10-off coupon, while a simple mental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
running on different operating systems). "Our strategy is to use internally the kind of protocols the Internet uses outside the School," Upton notes. "We've built something called an 'intranet' using open protocols: no one company owns... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
standards and to deliver a "comfortable banking" experience. Chris Armstrong, executive vice president and chief marketing officer, was now faced with the task of defining the comfortable banking model and consistently... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
which acted essentially as an in-house management consultancy and auditing firm. He personally composed the statutes as to its authority. This was one of the first offices in the world that began a task of standardizing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
with a sharp pencil. I would urge all of us involved in international trade and tax accounting to do what we can to make the old shell game a game not worth the candle, just as GlaxoSmithKline learned in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
organization's strategic focus. This is typically not something that an organization advertises. But it is standard practice in a number of organizations today. For example, at ING DIRECT, the fastest-growing financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the applications and their relationships in an enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
credit providers and because of their unique role in the payment system: they are the only entities that can hold accounts at the Federal Reserve and are thus critical for moving money across the financial system. You can’t understand... View Details