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- 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
- 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
- News
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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
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- First Look
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