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Henry McCance

recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest investment. That could lead to the major breakthrough the founders were after, because more genes... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise

is a good lead for further data tracking. Business and management literature ABI/ProQuest - best for finding articles on all aspect of business and management topics... View Details

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

correspondingly negative effect." Align employees with company goals. Anecdote and data alike confirm the adage that “People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” For most employees, their direct manager... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

01 Sep 2003
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An Electrifying Tale

fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud of twenty years from now,”... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

impact on our trajectory." Last year, with three remaining locations in the Boston area, Finale's original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island-based holding company where Conforti now serves as View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
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Leadership in the Digital Age

Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative. That’s because the challenges that executives face today aren’t issues of technology but a question of “how to create an organization that can actually utilize digital tools and View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Oct 2015
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What Government Can Learn From Baseball

Keywords: Government

01 Feb 2002
News

Design Fair

Second-year students in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective MBA course Managing Product Development presented their final projects at the tenth annual Design Fair in December. Among those who displayed their wares at the Spangler... View Details

Keywords: MIT Media Lab; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for whom college is far from a given.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Mutual Funds: Fees

has historical data on mutual fund prices and fees. In WRDS, go to CRSP > Quarterly update > Mutual Funds > Fund Summary. Set date range and enter mutual fund codes (use code lookup or upload an existing file).... View Details

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Privacy Statement (English) - Global

activity, other misconduct, security or technical issues, or unauthorized access to or use of personal data or our website or data systems; responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process;... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves

nonprofit conducts field research, oversees data collection and processing, and presents clients with key findings, program implications, and implementation recommendations and tools. “The data we generate... View Details

August 2012
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen

We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Financial Crisis; Multinational Firms and Management; Analytics and Data Science; Business Subsidiaries; Production; Finance; Performance; Ownership

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Arthur Rock

late 1950s, Rock has been carefully scrutinizing pitches of another kind—start-up bids by young technology companies— and when he goes for one of these, he rarely misses.” Among the iconic companies Rock helped launch were Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Scientific... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening

Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash For his latest venture, serial entrepreneur Jan Samzelius (MBA 1979) set out to eliminate one of the biggest annoyances of the digital era: hard-to-remember passwords. But along the way, the View Details