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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
to Chu, himself a Wall Street refugee with grounding in consulting and buy-outs, microfinance has "a double bottom-line." It brings above-average returns for first-movers who tap into what finance specialists see as a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
integration of Gillette, explicit attention was paid to helping people get to know each other casually and informally, and the much larger P&G adopted Gillette systems and promoted their people. They called it "the best of both... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
third party, the stock exchange, take responsibility for these functions. Stock exchanges' interests are the creation of a well-functioning capital market, where good and bad news are equally likely to be disclosed in a timely fashion.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
investor how he chose investments, he rubbed his belly over and over, saying “I do that.” A blend of both Gut feel in investing may not be as random or capricious as it sounds, as Huang describes in the new research paper The Role of... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
the twenty-first century as the epoch-making era of playing fields becoming more level and opening markets, reducing government control, and spreading lifestyles and products of different cultures from all over the world. In this context,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
apply to the schools that they honestly wanted most. The Boston School Committee adopted the proposal. Roth also has helped design markets to match new doctors with residency programs and View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
they must be specific to the strategy of the business. Company scores on these metrics may be benchmarked against direct competitors and/or outstanding companies in other industries. Second, CEOs must ensure an adequate pipeline of new... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
lifestyle, these other products can add brand value and, being produced by others under license, they deliver some extra profit to the Trump organization. "In the world of representative democracy, you have to be the market share... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
sure that the highest-productivity owner wins, countries should typically adopt exemption of foreign income so that overall productivity is as high as it could be. Said another way, it may well be more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
company pressed forward with launches of GMO food products in Europe, giving far too little weight to the fact that Europeans were still reeling from the mad cow disease crisis, reports of dioxin-contaminated chicken, and numerous other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
of these, should we, as someone suggested, strip MBA degrees, once awarded, from recipients who later prove unworthy of the designation? What do you think? Original Article New students are arriving on business school campuses for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
There's not just one solution to creating the innovative products you want for your business." Networking And Connections All of the panelists agreed that connections are key in pushing new ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
simulations, but Strategic Brew stands alone in scope. All 940 first-year students play the game simultaneously as part of the required Strategy course. Roughly 40 faculty and project members manage and supervise the events. “It’s a View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
over 33 million reviews for local businesses, with some sporting more than 1,000 reviews each. How, then, does a consumer make sense of the spate of opinions, many of which contradict each other? New research suggests a scientific way to... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
like companies, must find a means of creating total factor productivity if they are to grow. Some other countries, meanwhile, have grown quite slowly for decades, despite great locations and immense deposits of natural resources. In these... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
extensive historical study: (1) link responsibility and control, (2) manage moral hazard, (3) pool risk in sound institutions, (4) adopt market conforming approaches to the extent possible, and (5) structure markets to promote safe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
a convenient research environment. In the late 1980s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher adopted a more lenient approach vis à vis planning regulations, which allowed for a significant increase in big-box store openings across the country.... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
And many are jumping in without doing their homework to determine the distinct financial needs of consumers in the countries they are targeting. “Successful operators deal with the unique circumstances of countries to provide a product... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
"Why is it so costly to produce? It shouldn't be. Where's the inefficiency in our production by reinsurance companies? Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price? A lot of the research goes into trying to... View Details