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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all opportunity and no resources. Rhyne... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher — or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
some of the big inflection points and in particular, some of the events that did so much to define the story of American business: the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the crash of the stock View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
that corporate and capital market short-termism are related. Moreover, consistent with analytical models that emphasize the costly nature of short-termism, we find that short-term oriented firms exhibit lower future accounting and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
their attendant risk. The case then describes the pain inflicted by raising foreclosures, as well as the financial market ramifications of the rise in mortgage delinquencies. It also chronicles the response of the U.S. and European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell phones, and digital cameras — View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
what some perceive to be a narrowing between the rewards and risks of such ventures? Whether because of reduced market expectations or increased transactional costs resulting from deteriorating international... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You
do you think? How do you feel?” We can also use it to conduct inexpensive and quick market research. And social media applications offer a treasure trove of information about consumer behavior. What other benefits come from using social... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
percentage takes advantage of them. Insightful demographic and psychographic profiles have been developed from alumni survey data that will enable the committee, chaired by Jim Rice (MBA 1986), to recommend segment-specific marketing and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
law for “38 seconds” before starting two other tech companies. Michelle Zatlyn (MBA ’09): Saskatchewan native with experience in product marketing and product management. The pair hatched the idea for what would become CloudFlare during... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
you’re not able to invest there.” Moonfare’s story offers insights for any company seeking new growth opportunities as its target market matures. While PE returns have outpaced stock View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and many venture capitalists sitting... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural processes of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
social and environmental issues? NGOs have become an important element of the global economy and firms should expect to interact with them.—Debora Spar Spar: Again, it really depends on the firm, the business, and the activist groups... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
other words, do this to please yourself.” —Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961), business and personal coach and author of Act from Choice “Keep your expectations modest. The writing is only half the battle. Then you have to View Details