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- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
allowed his cousins to pause, rewind, and absorb the material at their own pace. Before long, he was hearing from complete strangers that the videos had made a real difference in their ability to master material they’d struggled with previously. Another View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the welfare implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
and conducted customer research. “We learned that we needed to provide more than just services,” explains Rhyne, who added prestige cosmetics sales to the mix and wrote a solid business plan that was the only non–Internet-related finalist... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
funding leads to a net increase of 2.3 patents. Though valuing patents is difficult, we report a range of estimates for the private value of these patents using different approaches. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
effect of efficiency wages on employee behavior and social norms. Working PapersSpatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain Authors:Juan Alcácer and Mercedes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
couple of hiccups on some other ones, which I won’t go into, but in fact, there was one I stepped off from because I couldn’t accept how it was being run. So you just have to do what you think is right for where you are going to play a part. And if you can’t play that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
approximately $190 million, a still-growing total higher than during any other presidential tenure in the history of the college. Under his strategic direction, Morehouse has extended its reach by launching its first online degree... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Module I: Defining and Developing the Business Model The first module of The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) focuses on business model analysis and lean testing. Your business model defines your company and sets its strategic direction, including View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
contributes to cost shifting, drives up administrative costs, and makes price and value comparisons virtually impossible. Under positive-sum competition, providers would have to issue a single bill for each service bundle, or for each... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21
new customers, and customers that traded on cash in advance terms prior to the crisis disproportionately reduced their purchases. These results can be rationalized by the model whenever 1) misbehavior on the part of the exporter is of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
and even though the entrepreneur holds all of the market power in the model. Furthermore, although perfectly competitive investors expect zero alpha in equilibrium, the nature of the three-way interaction results in a correlation between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
competitiveness. Total health-care spending as a percentage of GDP is 16 percent, compared with Canada’s 10 percent and Japan’s 7.9 percent. U.S. per capita health-care expenditures, at $7,026, are the highest in the world, versus... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of default typical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
later, on a vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a fund focused on gender lens investing and sustainability. Not long after, she left Global Ventures, citing a misalignment of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
it's often hard to know whether you've received the service you've contracted to receive and have paid for. You've got a bill. Have you also received the benefit of the service—the customers? Certainly you have some customers, but are they new customers, View Details