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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Light. “They had never hired MBAs, and we were very foreign creatures to them. I was one of eight money managers, covering retail and financial services stocks. A year into it, they gave me the entire sector to cover,” she says. Dias... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive that there are private... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
financial officer of Grupo Elektra, Latin America's leading specialty retailer and consumer finance company. Global banks are decreasing their positions in Latin America. Last year alone, he said, major banks reduced investments in Latin... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
over the same time. (It should be noted that over shorter periods, some emerging markets such as the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the SENSEX index for the Bombay market last year grew by 84 percent and 48.5 percent respectively.) View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
Rawdon relates by phone. “But we were united by our vision of what the company could be.” The two spent the following months pulling together a business plan and fund-raising pitch. “My one-year anniversary at Siebel was the same day we got a commitment from an angel... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept of alignment; it is, among... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
projects like in-stream hydro, wind power, solar and bio-mass. CleanvilleJakob Blomqvist, MBA 2022CleanVille democratizes energy. We empower retail investors to access renewable energy and CleanTech... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
they worked with me for two months to help write my business plan.” Pao picked up additional investors through meetings and luncheons organized by Bender: “By December 2011 I had raised half the money I needed from family and friends,”... View Details
Keywords: cosmetics; salmon; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
Run As a research analyst at MFS Investment Management, Cameron focuses on quantitative, strategic, and thematic approaches to bond management. MFS specializes in managing investment portfolios for both retail and institutional View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to Bangalore, entrepreneurs and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
Romero's enthusiasm piqued the interest of local, national, and international entrepreneurs whose efforts did work out. These included investors and indigenous laborers from other parts of Mexico; American pioneers who headed south having... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going concern. A diverse group of private investors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
Andrew Miller (MBA 1988), writer and coauthor, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Nick Taranto Photo courtesy of Nick Taranto "We will see more investment in the tech-enabled food space. Many investors and entrepreneurs... View Details