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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
generators were brought in, many donated by General Electric and its CEO, Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82). Next on Lhota's agenda for the business community was getting the New York Stock Exchange - closed for four days - up and running. "We... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
2000s. We also point to structural factors about renewable energy that have caused the availability of venture capital finance for renewable energy to fall dramatically in recent years, with potential implications for the rate and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a labeling scheme that is comprehensible to the average shopper. Here, we describe our method of developing a nutrition metric to fill this void. Methods—We asked leading nutrition experts to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series variability in the magnitude and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
to express their feelings, exchange information, and act in ways that previously were unheard of. Several recent writings suggest that the next phase in the activation of customers will be putting them to work in the service of an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
costs. Mortality rates for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, asthma, and various infections have been reduced between 40 and 70 percent over the last forty years thanks in large part to more effective and safer drugs. We need to do a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
actions (distribution browsers with PC purchases) increase the rate of diffusion of browsers into the population, the strategic actions (distribution or restrictions on distribution in the case of Netscape) are twice as important as... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic performance affects View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short run, while the results in the long run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
faculty members will lead sessions at the conference, with about forty distinguished panelists. These experts, many of whom wield international influence on topics such as exchange rate policies, controls on... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
in India. During the 1990s, she recalled, "we had coalition governments, no stability in politics, high inflation and a high interest rate environment." In 2001, she added, "the entire banking system collapsed." Yet these were exactly the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
on bond risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Opting Out of Good Governance By: Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick Abstract—Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Schargrodsky, 175-204. National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
World Series just completed with a Boston Red Sox sweep of the Colorado Rockies, we asked Elberse to discuss the business of sports marketing and the unique case of Maria Sharapova. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What is the growth rate of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
ratings boost and launching a career that has seen a variety of radio gigs, including on Sirius, and many appearances on national television (such as Larry King Live and Nightline) and in print media (including Playboy, Glamour, and the... View Details