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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
live online webinars-that allowed real estate professionals like brokers and agents to manage and market rental listings, communicate with clients, and complete transaction paperwork (e.g., tenant applications, credit screening, lease... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
external sourcing may vary across situations. Our framework also proves useful for assessing the possible estimation biases in transaction level make-or-buy studies arising from ignoring complementarities and constraints. Where Do Brokers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2002, Wally Eamer (MBA 1979) took a job that no one really wanted: Trying to broker peace between logging companies, environmentalists, First Nations and the government... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
ecosystem: Did you know that there are about 3,000 brokers in the US alone who specialize in brokering smaller firms? Or that there are private equity firms whose sole business is financing smaller firm... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
stocking distributor to a retail company, which then serves end users. (In the service analogy, the distributor becomes a consolidator.) 2. It can go through an agent, such as a jobber or a broker (instead of a distributor), to retail. 3.... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
however, even though Trian lost the battle, it eventually won the war. The close vote shook up DuPont’s complacent managers and shareholders, and the company, with the help of investors, eventually brokered a deal to merge with rival Dow... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
are not glamorous things a lot of times. Like they’re just , you know, picking up phone calls. Calling brokers and doing work, reading over agreements. But those are actually where you spend a majority of your time, and just having the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
terrorist threat info and analysis pulled from the web’s darkest corners. Rothrock’s RedSeal also has a number of federal clients, though he doesn’t necessarily know who they are. Brokered through a government intermediary, they simply... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
about key intervention points for changing an institution. However, while adjacency is an important structural position, it is not, by itself, dominance. Dominance requires action. Dominating institutions exercise dominance by (1) View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
timely information and to perform transactions quickly and economically have spurred organizational and strategic transformation. Customers' expectations and demands are escalating, as well. As Schwab's Goldman says, "What people expect and what View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
to get a handle on why getting financing through software-industry guru Ben Rosen (Lotus) led to a different and more effective execution than getting end-of-tax-year money from Chicago-based commodity brokers (Ovation). He also wrote... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Selling Our Souls? The Commodification of Children Author:Debora Spar Publication:Conscience 27, no. 3 (autumn 2006): 14-16 Abstract When people choose their sperm online, when they contract with an egg broker or adoption agency, when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2373671 Search Based Peer Firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Ltd. (GCS). "There is no way I could have guessed what Kodwo and I would accomplish," says the soft-spoken Richardson, who, along with Mills, became a licensed broker within two months of arriving in Ghana, ultimately trading 20 percent... View Details