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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
lives. A Political Economy of Justice Edited By Danielle Allen; Yochai Benkler; Leah Downey; Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor; and Joshua Simons University of Chicago Press If we can agree that our... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
highlight how large companies in traditional industries—from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals—are using digital to gain strategic advantage. They illuminate the principles and practices that lead to successful View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
understand business in Africa. In November, the ARC expanded its coverage on the continent with the hiring of Wale Lawal, a senior researcher who will be based in Lagos. Professor Tsedal Neeley spoke about the global digital leader during... View Details
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
phenomena—and make meaningful predictions in rapidly changing global markets. In particular, Dafna gravitated toward questions related to the challenges new automation and digital technologies pose to job security and businesses.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
several of the key issues that were discussed over the next two days. Sachs stressed that "Africa's development challenge is the world's greatest economic challenge." After touching on some of the region's persistent problems - AIDS and malaria, intense poverty, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
independent developers to build new features. The cell phone has become a lucrative platform for more than handset makers—also in on the party are makers of digital cameras, music services, and organizer software. Not only are existing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact of debiasing this previously unexplored barrier of consumer decisions to "buy time" in a field experiment with a U.S.-based sharing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
value is created and captured in the economy One critical change: You have your direct labor, and also your indirect labor through the data generated by your work. The value of labor shifts from renting embodied expertise to selling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
beginning stages of a re-architecting of our companies and economies based on digital technologies—notably artificial intelligence and machine learning,” he says. “With this new lab we will continue to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
economy through specialized, hands-on trade training programs. Searchlight - Ben Kallas (MBA 2024) - Searchlight will enable western countries to address vulnerabilities in their critical mineral supply chains by providing on-the-ground... View Details
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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
industrial lines.” 7 In the 1930s, many believed the failing U.S. economy threatened the private enterprise system itself, and as the Great Depression wore on a sense of obligation arose among business executives to inspire renewed faith... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the hub economy will continue to spread across more industries, concentrating more power in the hands of a few. As an example, they take an in-depth look at the auto industry and how Apple and Alphabet/Google are poised to become the main... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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South Asia - Global Activities 2021
offering designed to help senior executives in India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, elevate their leadership skills and drive success in this competitive market. Since then, some 300 business leaders have participated... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
the digital revolution. With a smartphone in every pocket and the equivalent of what you’d spend on a CD, consumers can buy a month of access to a wide world of streaming options. And while the global View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn of the View Details