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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Bulgaria right after the Berlin Wall fell and was right when Bulgaria was beginning its transition to Democracy. Now, I've read that you and your wife, Searl, were actually a part of that process that helped create Bulgaria's democracy.... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior research on Minneapolis has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
the 1950s were purchased under this process called contract buying. My grandparents had to buy a home this way. They first bought their home and they were not allowed to get a mortgage. And so for the first four years, they were paying a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
continue to examine the planet, and send back information that will be useful in helping NASA understand how astronauts—and possible future colonists—will be able to survive the intense radiation that bombards its surface. By choosing to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Patrick Doyle (HBS '03), a former rector and adjunct professor of business ethics at Notre Dame. With heightened campus security in place, MBA and Executive Education classes resumed on September 12, but in the days that followed, the focus of formal and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
coming down, I’m relatively optimistic that more of what seems like sci-fi will become reality over the next couple of decades. If you think about data as being the backbone of the modern economy, and the transmission of information... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
group of small businesses and nonprofits that could benefit from MBA talent. Now in the process of hiring an executive director, the nonprofit connects service-minded MBA students from 20 schools with community organizations that need... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
selection phase of the volunteers existing in our database, to accelerate the process (such as filtering or interview support),” says Uysal. “Moving forward, we’ll keep our focus on the subject and pivot our efforts if needed.” FEBRUARY... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
The entire process -- from ad to purchase -- might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions, Web technology can also help advertisers meet two of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
actors. “The richest countries are the biggest promoters of lawlessness in international trade and finance,” Baker writes in his 2005 book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel. “In a process that parades as agreeable enterprise illegal money... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
joint evaluation, making joint evaluation the money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Novartis as a boy, being in an iron lung for a year. He learned he wanted to be a great doctor and then he wanted to use those doctors' gifts to help other people with pharmaceuticals that could save lives. And he did just that. But he had to go back and View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
And this was completely my fault. I made that decision. We had no investment processes other than my apparent genius, which, we learned very quickly, was not very genius-like. I was called up by one of our investors to meet with him. You... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
models, not just incremental adjustments or extensions. Institutional economics can help prospective and established managers recognize the role of formal and informal institutions and enable them to work around the "institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne