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  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it allows measurement of the previously opaque, or when it can be coupled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Triangle. The As stand for the three distinct types of international strategy. Through Adaptation, companies seek to boost revenues and market share by maximizing their local relevance. Through Aggregation, they attempt to deliver View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

manufacturing these and of getting the supply chain in place. Now we are coordinating the raw material procurement and production across our network of factories and are bringing on more factories to dramatically scale production,” said... View Details
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

wrestled with for years. German firms needed more scale and centralization—and looked to American examples in the great "rationalization" mania of the 1920s. Americanization and the bureaucratization of German corporations went... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

power of an economy based on reciprocal giving rather than cash exchange. After that the group decided the project's most important quality was its sacred potential to educate others about Native peoples themselves and their place in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

converting an idea into reality, recruiting inspired talent, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO (Start Up Guru Series) by Bill Lewis (AMP... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

of the way scales are put together. You can never play perfectly in tune. So your efforts to play perfectly in tune, however sincere and vehement, always lead to some degree of conflict. In part it means to give in; the harder you try to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

differences in terms of how they affect companies and how they can be affected by government. It finds that locational competitiveness is becoming an increasingly strategic question for both locations and companies: Locations need to choose their role in the global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights provisions, in particular, maximum vote provisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

of its two highest valuations. The utilities are scaled so that the market clears with the participants' purchases proportional to their entitlements. The method is generalized to arbitrary bargaining sets and existence is proved. For two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • News

The Race for a Vaccine

accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as countries with growing economies, like China, expanded immunization programs, and policymakers... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2017
  • News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

this phase ended at the election, what I'd ask people to do on a weekly basis was to say on a scale of 1 to 10, where are you? If 1 is I'm going to vote for Clinton, the other end of the spectrum is I'm going to vote for Trump, you're... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The fourth such global meeting was just held in early December in Busan, South Korea. “We need to encourage risk-taking by organizations, provided that it's accompanied with rigorous data collection." —Alnoor Ebrahim In this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna