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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

taking advantage of them. MacDonald’s best known body of Work is the Travis McGee series of 21 books, each with a color in its title, beginning with The Deep Blue Good-By (1964) and ending with The Lonely Silver Rain (1985). McGee, the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Jun 2018
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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

we are not talking about executives who are known to have committed serious assaults or other potential criminal acts. No board that I am personally aware of would consider hiring those people. The growing body of senior executives who’ve... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2008
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‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

let up on himself, either, continuing to work and play tennis even as his body failed. "He loved tennis, but it was a constant struggle for him," remembers his son Peter. "We held his memorial service at the Belmont Tennis... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

on a body of work on China’s political economy and role in the world to answer questions about how the Chinese Communist Party has survived, whether the country is experiencing economic crisis, and whether the West can survive China’s... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

fade, without peering through a telescope. That's because his stars aren't heavenly bodies but high-performing investment bank analysts. "My dissertation examines how firms can achieve competitive advantage in a knowledge-based industry,"... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

1988
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The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley

By: A. E. Roth

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Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences

This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. It shows that similarity of preferences is an important factor driving unravelling. In particular, it shows that under the ex-post stable mechanism (the mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Welfare or Wellbeing; Body of Literature; Market Platforms

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July 2001 (Revised September 2001)
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Definitions and Typologies of the Family Business

By: John A. Davis

Introduces students to the wide variety of family business definitions in literature today. Also reviews prominent typologies of family business systems. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Body of Literature; System

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1992
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Pension Reform and Privatization in International Perspective: A Case of Israel

By: Zvi Bodie and Robert C. Merton

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1993
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Coalitions and Collaboration in International Business

By: G. Jones

This volume provides a selection of the most important research on the history of international business collaboration from the nineteenth century until the present day. The selected essays cover the extensve literature on international cartels, other forms of... View Details

Keywords: International Business; Collaboration; Joint Ventures; Trade; Equity; Body of Literature; Relationships; Research

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2009
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Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations

By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile

Although the literatures on both organizational creativity and organizational improvisation have been expanding in recent years, the links between these literatures have not been deeply explored. This chapter explores those links to create a conceptualization of... View Details

Keywords: Body of Literature; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Research; Creativity; Theory

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