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12 May 2023
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Students Strive to Solve Climate Change

17 Jun 2002
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Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Singapore and Malaysia. Capital in Taiwan and Hong Kong went to the most efficient firms, including small, start-up entrepreneurial firms, and was not based on the political or ethnic status of such firms, he said. Extremely attractive compensation packages in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Apr 2021
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The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

Keywords: by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen

23 Nov 2021
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Senior Lecturer Kristin Mugford: Experiential

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Aspen Wang

Aspen wants to empower students to pursue a career that truly fits their needs. From exploring what matters to the individual for those who are undecided, to looking more tactically at what it means to conduct a structured or a networked... View Details

September 1997
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Note on Political Risk Analysis

By: Debora L. Spar

Describes the emergence and subsequent decline of the political risk analysis industry. Discusses what political risk means for multinational firms and various ways in which firms have tried to analyze and grapple with these risks. View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics

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13 May 2002
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Bringing the Master Passions to Work

If passions are the masters of reason—as David Hume (1960) believed—then they have done a remarkable job at getting us to believe in their benign nature—their outright subservience to reason. Deception and self-deception are as critical to the narratives that the... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

July 8, 2013
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Greening Is Not Enough: 4 Steps to Corporate Leadership on Climate Change

By: Michael W. Toffel and Auden Schendler

Environmental sustainability usually means greening operations and products, but that's not nearly enough to stop climate change. Corporate leadership on climate change also requires urging action by governments, trade associations, and suppliers — and marketing these... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability

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11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

sellers, leaving people of color out of a crucial means of wealth building. The national dearth of minority loan officers is considerable. In 2019, just 15 percent of mortgage loan officers were minorities, compared to 39 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

Pedro Edgar Gómez Barrero

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate; Education

16 Aug 2022
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Chad Losee Full-Tuition Scholarship Q&A

25 Aug 2018
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Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy?

22 Sep 2010
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Apartment construction on the rise

2017
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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small... View Details

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02 Aug 2020
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Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and African American WWII Military Enlistment

Keywords: by Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini

19 Nov 2014
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Marketing Marijuana

On Tuesday, the family of deceased musician and celebrated marijuana user Bob Marley announced what it claimed will be the first global cannabis brand, Marley Natural. Suddenly, marijuana is a growth industry—and increasingly, a legal one. When the smoke cleared after... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage