Interest Rates - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

in the ranks that diversity and inclusion are in the best interest of the entire organization. The question posed—Why don’t more organizations understand the power of diversity and inclusion?—may have gotten ahead of the research to date.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

apparent more quickly in today's knowledge and highly interactive society ." KB raised an interesting point with this question: "How many times (do) you have an answer as soon as you heard the main topic, suddenly your mind stopped... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

of industries, clusters, and regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in the level of activity of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Safaris find a sustainable growth path that will allow it to profitably expand its business and meet its shareholders’ interests while still achieving its priority purposes of protecting and investing in the ecosystems and communities on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

telegraph in particular provided new opportunities for direct communication between suppliers and customers, without the need for middlemen. 2 However some markets were opened more quickly, or were of more interest to, say, European... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

managers should think: How do we survive this time and even get something positive out of this? One of those positives could be the use of all these cool tools that we should be using anyway. As time passes, workers may find that they like the flexibility of not... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

know that anyone can access these ideas.” Dina Gerdeman: Finance intimidates people largely because the system is so complex, but you say there’s an easier way to understand it. Can you explain how? Mihir Desai: Finance is often talked about in an overly complicated... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

from Latin America, Africa, Turkey, and South Asia exuded this idea of stability, which assured employees, partners, customers, and everyone else. “After the crisis of 2009, the orders increased and our growth rate over the following five... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with IT, while the plot sets up a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

As the number of casualties from COVID-19 ballooned at an alarming rate last year, some feared that government officials were failing to report several coronavirus-related losses and the actual death toll was much higher worldwide. While... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

phenomenon.) In another experiment that should be of interest to brand managers, the researchers confirmed the potential power of a “sell busyness” strategy. Five hundred participants were asked to rate the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

were becoming more demanding as their financial woes mounted. They seemed to be more aggressive in their demands for not only lower rates but more attention for less money. They also seemed much more willing to challenge everything Jeff... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

every year since its inception, is the only firm of its kind in Brazil that has been awarded an MQ1 rating by Moody's. Jakurski, who serves as managing director, focuses on fixed income, equity, and currency trading in global markets and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

ability to charge higher rates generated historic ocean shipping revenue of $48 billion and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $18 billion, for a margin of 37%. This was in contrast to the... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

fact that most customers who defected from a particular bank gave "interest rates" as the reason for switching banks seemed to suggest that their original bank's interest rates were not... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

is ready for audiences, making them risky and expensive propositions. “Each one is a huge project, and the success rate is quite low,” says Hong Luo, the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

testing this relationship in the field. We analyze a field experiment at the supplier Hugo Boss to determine how the supplier’s inventory service level affects demand from its retailer customers. We find increases in historical fill rate... View Details