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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

people in industrializing societies to get themselves into debt. At the same time, waged employment in booming nineteenth-century cities created a class of borrowers who lacked the social networks necessary for older types of neighborly... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

They Call Him Mr. China

million in US investor capital, Perkowski launched ASIMCO in 1994, quickly cobbling together a network of far-flung joint-venture factories, each number one or number two in its product category. And in each case, he managed to wrest... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

company like Roomi launches on the crowdfunding platform Republic, all of a sudden anyone with some spare cash can ride the highs and lows of its future performance. Until recently, the only way in for mom-and-pop investors was to wait for the first offering of a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

forthcoming NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2015 Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and Kerr, William R. Abstract—The propagation of macroeconomic shocks through input-output and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2007 (Revised March 2013)
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Queensland Sugar Limited

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Until industry deregulation in 2006, Queensland Sugar ran Australia's single desk marketing system for raw sugar exports. Since deregulation, eight of the ten Queensland sugar millers have elected to continue collective marketing through QSL. However, several millers... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Goods and Commodities; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Marketing Strategy; Supply Chain; Network Effects; Supply and Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia
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  • 01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs

company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

embedded in the local network while also having access to global markets. It bridges the two worlds, helping the cluster maintain its competitive advantage. In one Brenta firm, skilled workers translate international designers' sketches... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

have advanced to the semifinal round in the New Venture Competition Business and Social Enterprise tracks. Select teams will deliver pitches to early-stage investors. Networking rooms will be available for students to meet with a... View Details
  • 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement

banker knew she was eminently qualified, yet such opportunities seemed to evade her. “Everybody wants somebody with previous public board experience or who has been a CEO or CFO at a publicly traded company,” she says. In Dozie’s view,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

going it alone even more than the returns to partnering with local firms. The reasons are that the forces of globalization—particularly reduced trade costs leading to more fragmented production processes—are making it more and more... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up

from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social networks... View Details
Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience of their networks against attacks, identify and address weaknesses, and respond to data theft swiftly and effectively. Fusion Leadership: Unleashing the Movement of Monday Morning Enthusiasts by Dudley R. Slater (MBA 1985) and... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

financial-statement users come to outweigh institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology) that make IFRS adoption costly. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of IFRS harmonization among countries, although... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

first dimension relates to the degree to which the collaborative network is "open" verses "closed." The second dimension relates to the degree to which the governance structure for collaboration is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

Edelman, Benjamin, and Stephen M. Ryan Abstract—Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a challenge: most IP addresses have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation, whereas it is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail products. We thus provide a theory of which products an intermediary should offer in each... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne