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02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the benefits from reducing tax distortions. We further discuss sustainability of nominal debt in developing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Hisano cites companies such as Wells, Richardson & Co. and Heller & Merz Company, which introduced dedicated dyes for butter coloring in the late 1870s. Synthetic dyes decreased the cost of coloring butter significantly. H.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

a summary measure of revenue generation and cost control. They should be controllable in that employees in the organization can actually influence improvement in the factor measured. Some of the metrics shown here are evaluations of... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

staff—all of this costs money, Frei said. Commerce Bank pays for it by paying lower rates on deposits compared to the giant banks. "Think about it," she told the group. "Would you trade half a percentage point on your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

investment standpoint, the cost of emissions and resource scarcity, particularly water, is largely yet to been priced in, and I believe there are plenty of strong buying opportunities in many markets. Real assets, such as farmland, can... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Dominique Baillet

I've always had a big mouth. In third grade, I informed my teacher, Mr. Rogers, that the design for recess line-up was flawed: We kids spent disproportionate time organizing alphabetically at the cost of the very freedom recess was... View Details

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Minority Students | MBA

Foundation The LunaCap Foundation assists Mexicans (born anywhere in the world) or current active military or U.S. Armed Forces veterans with the cost of an MBA education. Candidates will be selected based on performance but, more... View Details

November 2004
Tutorial

Principles of Microeconomics for Strategists

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Pai-Ling Yin and Elizabeth Raabe

Reviews microeconomic principles from a business strategy perspective, using the digital music industry as context. Contains three modules: demand, supply, and equilibrium. The demand module discusses the willingness to pay, market demand, price elasticity, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Supply and Industry; Demand and Consumers; Microeconomics; Balance and Stability; Price; Cost; Revenue; Music Industry

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October 2004
Article

FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets

By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek

The purpose of this paper is to examine the various links among foreign direct investment, financial markets and growth. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents have two choices: they can work for the foreign company in... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Cost; Wealth; Investment Return; Knowledge

27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

an IoT product. Both LED lighting and IoT were rapidly evolving markets, and Digital Lumens had to decide if it should focus on driving down lighting hardware costs to expand its total addressable market or on improving the software... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with implications for growth policy and our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

continuation of the process of globalization. I think this is a safe bet, although one has to be rather nervous right now with the higher costs of trade, the difficulties of moving people around, the difficulties of crossing borders, the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 2024
News

Conducting Business

In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

cost of leisure is lower. We interpret these results as evidence of differences in preferences for leisure across CEOs rather than optimal responses to organizational differences correlated with ownership. Differences in labor supply are... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2023
News

Family Matters

University of California. The $5,000 cost was beyond her family’s means, but Thompson-Woode’s mother decided she would ask the community to invest in her daughter’s dream. “The city raised the money,” Thompson-Woode says. “People wanted... View Details

Keywords: April White

Profile

Michael Farias

health-care industry." After graduation, Michael intends to concentrate on pediatrics and on initiatives focused on improving care for children. "I'm leaning toward an administrative role in hospitals," Michael says. "Today, we spend more on health... View Details

Profile

Carolin Oldenbuettel

worked on a project to optimize the target costing management system, aligning new car models to feasible costs,” she says. “What I like about the auto industry is that they’re more and more influenced by tech—self-driving cars, for... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

09 May 2022
News

Green House

percent higher up-front investment, the lower energy and maintenance costs can offset the expense. And she estimates that larger dwellings can be built for a 0 to 2 percent premium, making them a potential next project for Birchwood... View Details

27 May 2020
News

Prepare to Exit

one of the millions of Americans to lose their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just... View Details

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