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  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are far from fixed in this industry. In some cases they are "supervariable" or rising at a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

crisis hit the Western markets. The use of project finance has grown at a compound rate of 0% over the last five years, 4% over the past 10 years, and 12% over the past 15 years. This note focuses primarily on private sector investment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

you may not know, how worried should you be? According to the authors—very. They investigated the 2002-2004 CEO turnover rates of the top 1,000 U.S. companies and interviewed more than a dozen CEOs, each of whom had taken over at least... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

pension funds was infrastructure debt securities. Until recently, few Nigerian infrastructure securities had strong enough credit ratings to be investable by cautious pension funds. Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

$13.7 billion, was adding 600 stores a year and expanding into Europe from its U.S. base. Rolf Erikson, Masson's replacement, impressed few analysts and questions lingered about H&M's ability to maintain its rate of expansion. What... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue growth View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

decision rights and (2) adjust for local information, including historical performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. Analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

rates of public sector employment, the crown jewel of the Jordanian regime’s patronage. Interviews with over 60 of the surveyed firm owners across four strategically paired districts illustrate that business owners covet forbearance and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Fukuyoshi and Yoshiki Ishikawa had helped to improve cancer screening rates in Japan. Between 2005 and 2007, awareness of breast cancer in Japan rose from 55% to 70%, but the incidence of breast cancer screenings remained constant. Jun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

customer vehicles at higher rates and are more likely to lose customers whom they fail, suggesting that competition intensifies pressure on facilities to provide illegal leniency. We also show that, at least in markets in which pricing is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

that wanted to improve promotion rates of women but then resisted, looking beyond gender as an explanation for women's underrepresentation at the top. Part of the difficulty, according to Ely and Padavic, is that while work/family issues... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

"tight" or characterized by strong intellectual property protections. The strategies adopted by firms that have successfully profited from their innovative activities cast into new light old questions about the impact of intellectual property protection on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

higher overall ratings than the "branch-wed" non-ATM customers did. However, the reverse was true when videoconferencing was added. It appeared that heavy ATM users actually disliked interacting with humans! Lesson 5: Build... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed! Overall, 40 percent felt that DTCA... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

stylized facts: (i) shocks to N have a large effect on S, (ii) business cycles in N lead over medium-term fluctuations in S, (iii) the outputs in S and N co-move more than their consumption, and (iv) interest rates in S are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

(and demand for redistribution) even if luck plays no role. In other words, there is multiplicity even if the equilibrium tax rate is independent of the signal-to-noise ratio (a quantity that expresses how important effort is, relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

described: [B]ecause we are starting fresh, we don't have the collective memory of mistakes. [B]ecause India is booming, because our balance sheet is strong, people don't see risk in the same way they would do if they were working in [a multinational company] where... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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