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- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
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Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and piracy had recently become the country’s greatest claim to fame, securing ransoms to the tune of millions of U.S. dollars in one of the poorest corners of the global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest digital encryption codes in seconds rather than centuries. (The day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.)...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi capabilities to attract...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
complex. The deal was proof-of-concept for Fluidity, which hoped to develop a business digitizing securities issuance for other real estate assets on the basis of its technical facility with blockchain technology in conjunction with its...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing loans from Deutschland Bank. While he considers the many aspects of the deal that is about to unfold, he must decide which securities to acquire, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
had dropped significantly. Adversaries contended that Facebook had misled investors and violated securities laws. Were the allegations legitimate, and did the litigation pose a serious threat to Facebook's share price? Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
visions of what it means to retire. (We didn’t come up with a better word, although one member of the Class of 1958 referred to a state of “re-inspirement” in his 45th Reunion book.) What the five seem to have in common — aside from a level of financial View Details
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Philipp Schäelli
I was able to secure a position with KKR in their European Investment Team. What are you most looking forward to in your career? One of the key elements I am excited about is the people that I will get a chance to work with. Both in my...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
“The thing that most people don’t realize is that the music space is very data intensive, just as other asset-backed securities and investments are,” Soares explains. “You get huge sets of unstructured data that detail billions of rows of...
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- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid...
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- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
would not move offshore, even in the long run." "These are useful distinctions for CIOs when thinking about talent management," says Austin. "An IT organization needs all kinds of talent—skilled workers in security and...
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- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
relative to all asset classes have been enormous. Let's take a moment on this last point, high returns relative to other investments. The public real estate markets as recorded by the Dow Jones Wilshire Real Estate Securities index for...
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- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
wireless RFID securities token business at the same time. I would argue that there is a natural phenomenon that you will see lightening striking more than once in the same place, and I would never fight it." Mullen agreed that...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
party can be the source of greatest joint gains. In the Sinai case, the two sides probed and found different priorities for security versus sovereignty. In skilled hands, this process of "deal crafting" can generate value not...
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by Anita M. Harris