class mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in production of renewable energy. The acceptance of climate change remained a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2018
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mornings-only class schedule, she spent the afternoons working retail at an athletic clothing shop. “I think it planted an entrepreneurial seed in me. I loved the hands-on aspect to it, I loved how you could see the results of what you... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

learn demand at each price (“exploration" objective). Over time, the retailer can use this knowledge to set a price that maximizes revenue throughout the remainder of the selling season (“exploitation" objective). We propose a View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

we don't take care of this planet, the planet can't take care of us. I think there are two lessons from that. The first one is, take time for reflection. As leaders, we are so busy and we have so many responsibilities. It is hard and it's often, not common to turn off... View Details

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Vallée Abstract—Using a large administrative panel of Swedish households, we document the fast and broad adoption of retail structured products, an innovative class of contracts offering non-linear exposures to equity markets. Households... View Details

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

change. According to this research, there are two primary factors that can cause institutions to change. First, institutional entrepreneurs, including individual actors or small groups of actors, are able to think and act outside the confines of their institutional... View Details

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

did you focus on those people who carry out "necessary evils" in the workplace? Joshua Margolis and Andrew Molinsky: We became interested in necessary evils because students in our undergraduate, MBA, and executive education View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

it and do it. BENNIE WILEY Bennie Wiley (MBA 1972), principal, Wiley Group, Brookline, Massachusetts Leaders must have a vision for what needs to get done and find a way to mobilize resources around executing that vision. Leadership is... View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

or cult of the CEO was "Made in America." But the main point is that we tend to forget that American firms pioneered a vast, bureaucratic, middle management apparatus. As a trick, I've posted General Motor's organizational chart without the title in View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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