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Drake Du | MBA
AI, venture capital, consumer technology Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: At a time when political polarization seems to be the new normal, donations fuel rhetoric, and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “To term an American farmer dilatory in regard to the payment of his bills is arrant flattery. 6 — Bookkeeper for the J. I. Case Threshing Machine... View Details
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Jewish American Heritage Month | Baker Library
organizations who list Jewish People as a population they serve. Browse the Encyclopedia of Associations to locate Jewish American-affiliated organizations, such as professional societies and trade associations. Use Statista's Consumer... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
the discouraging trends she sees are political and religious attacks that stifle science and innovation; growing unease and pressure in the workplace; too few companies recognizing obligations to their communities as well as to their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya
recent economic and political developments, risk and regulation, and the broad business environment.See EIU's Kenya dashboard. Also helpful: Go to Data Tool to download specific indicators of interest, including indicators relating to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Mexico Since 1980 by Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his co-authors address two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico’s current economic and View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only confirmed his own political bias and, in so doing, had failed to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Income; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Taxation; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Journal of Public Economics 124 (April 2015): 74–80. (Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784, September 2014 and Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012.)
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, may be that they haven't yet been disrupted. As Christensen explained, the debate on mass healthcare reform usually pivots around the same three questions. "Maybe we've just got to get Americans to buck up and View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
financial one. Institutional change expert Julie Battilana discusses what it will take to create this "transformation of capitalism." Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To HelpHow could a country that... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
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Can China Lead?
Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
dealers and consumers alike. The other products in the line—and their relative prices—hinge on the midfield entry. “Midfield is a moving target.” A company controls midfield by fielding a complete product line that includes backs and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
growth rate. Clearly eBay was doing something right.” At the time, Whitman was a general manager of the Preschool Division of the Rhode Island–based toy company Hasbro, overseeing brands like Mr. Potato Head and Teletubbies. eBay’s ability to link View Details