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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern seaboard when in 1946 Doriot became president of the first public venture capital firm:... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
we are able to combine that natural association of competences.” 11 In the research and development of his revolutionary photographic system, Land drew on the insights of an interdisciplinary community of Polaroid employees and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
responsibility in enhancing US competitiveness. When businesses build partnerships with community colleges to train workers, they are enhancing American competitiveness and improving the business environment. When a number of businesses... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Plasmonics, and E25Bio. She has also served as a board director of WEST, a learning community for women in the enterprise of science and technology and serves on the Life Sciences Council of Springboard Enterprises, which focuses on... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
be an early warning sign: I f you can't get insurance in a particular locale, it probably is a place you shouldn't build, right? Should you build on stilts in coastal communities where we know hurricanes are going to get more intense... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and emissions by half, reduced virgin materials in packaging by a quarter, and eliminated nearly one-fifth of the polluting emissions released by its products. The company also conducts ongoing educational outreach on environmental issues to schools and View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
some remote authorities (the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the European Commission's DG IV) who claim to be patrolling the area, but everyone knows that their guns are not loaded. For cyberspace, it seems, is a lawless realm, a... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
believe it is not only of profound importance to contemporary readers, but also will be seminal secondary source for economic and political historians for generations to come. If you own a copy, keep it. A scholarly grandchild will thank... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
big and you see Denali on the horizon and the distance, and then you ski into the Alaska range. So all of a sudden you're in this huge, incredible mountain ridge and you're in deep narrow valleys and in gorges, but then you have sections through the interior that are... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
McArthur University Professor PublicAffairs Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
willingness to pay. Lal: They've created new sources of value for their customers that did not exist before. Q: And PetSmart. What's made them so successful? Lal: PetSmart saw the online threat early and built a strategy to insulate... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
the intensive margin vary substantially across technologies; (3) the cross-country dispersion of adoption lags has declined over time while the cross-country dispersion in the intensive margin has not; and (4) the cross-country variation in the intensive margin of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
for-profit software companies. Linux is open source (all code is made available for redistribution by anyone) and harnesses the collective power of thousands of programmers-both independent and employees of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
Case 308-073 After opening 60 schools in eight years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
individual partners' ability to IPO, achieve outsized exits, or fail, and to what extent that performance is attributable to the firm or the partner. Shedding light on the sources of performance in venture capital firms will help us make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
leadership dynamics and team performance and find that the psychological effect of power on formal leaders spills over to affect team performance. We argue that a formal leader's experience of heightened power produces verbal dominance, which reduces team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
high-quality candidates, the introduction of various perspectives into the deal-evaluation process, and a new source of deal flow. “When I get an all-Caucasian male team pitching me, one of the questions I ask myself is where is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
factors: a relatively untapped pool of high-quality candidates, the introduction of various perspectives into the deal-evaluation process, and a new source of deal flow. “When I get an all-Caucasian male team pitching me, one of the... View Details
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
Case 608-016 Cambrian House builds Internet-based products and services by relying entirely on its user community for all aspects of its innovation and new product development process. Users suggest ideas for new products and services and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace