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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
caregiver that is so important to patient-centered care. Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace by John A. Quelch (DBA 1977) and Carin-Isabel Knoop (MBA 1994) Springer This guide brings the relationship between work life and mental well-being... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
dynamics, including Nepal's, they have leaned toward one of two approaches: a broad view of several different countries together, or the sharp focus of a case study. Iyer and Do's method combines the best of both worlds by examining a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
Their comments concentrated on ways of getting women into positions with the power to hire and promote. Seena Sharp suggested that “Gender equality will be achieved when both women AND men participate in making it happen Women need to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
firms. However, once a lawsuit-triggering event like an accounting restatement, missing management guidance, or a sharp stock price decline occurs, there is no difference in the litigation rates between a foreign and comparable U.S. firm.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
state food banks. The combination of a sharp rise in food insecurity and the pandemic’s disruption of the food supply chain meant that there was a period of time where we struggled to bring in enough food to meet the needs of our network.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
that triggered economic chaos in that nation. Along with Argentina's current struggles—the sharp devaluation of its currency, rampant inflation, and civil unrest—past financial problems remain unresolved and much on the minds of its... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
pulling the financial system back from the brink. This marked a sharp contrast to the disastrous “liquidationist” policies of the early 1930s, when public officials (particularly at the Federal Reserve) were so afraid of moral hazard that... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
companies have teams of economists, and lots of the smaller companies are starting to hire handfuls of them.” The list includes Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, and numerous smaller companies. Tech companies are turning to sharp... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
the app and the company’s rising market valuation as proof that its business methods were justified. “Many people argued that this startup sharp elbow style—in which the thing that the company was doing was so important that the rules... View Details
- Web
Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement
to a nicotine patch. Patients apply the patch as simply as an ordinary Band-Aid. No sharp needles, no wasted vials of vaccine, no crying children afraid to get a shot! MIMIX enables home-based vaccination for the first time. In the MIMIX... View Details
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
fit. After joining the firm, he found that he enjoyed the work and he was good at it. “It was intense, there were really sharp people, and we worked on deals, so you kind of get hooked on the sense of closure and success when you close a... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
evidence that borrowers, and particularly young borrowers, were less credit-constrained in markets where banks enjoyed more market power. Interest rates on consumer borrowing decreased more sharply with age in competitive markets than in concentrated markets. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
environment, where there is so much pressure on directors, I think there can be a tendency for directors to want to cross the line a little too much sometimes, on the operating side, probing committees on every little subject that comes up." In View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
good fit. After joining the firm, he found that he enjoyed the work and he was good at it. “It was intense, there were really sharp people, and we worked on deals, so you kind of get hooked on the sense of closure and success when you... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
least gives management the ability to preserve a viable business and create greater value than would be otherwise available for all the firm's stakeholders—in sharp contrast to other countries where "bankruptcy" automatically... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne