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    Heating Sector Transformation in Rhode Island

    In a heating transformation study presented to Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo,... View Details

    • 08 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 8

    re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and the Internet

    Positioning. As it becomes harder to sustain operational advantages, strategic positioning becomes all the more important. If a company cannot be more operationally effective than its rivals, the only way to generate higher levels of... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
    • 13 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

    landmark National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by Lerner and five colleagues at the University of Michigan, University of Maryland,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
    • 26 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 26

    to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding, and the business model has yet to gain traction. How... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 8

    Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    ultimately securing national stability at a time of economic and social unrest. 11 Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . New York: MacMillan, 1933, p.... View Details
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    Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Power and Influence; Emerging Markets; Rank and Position; Status and Position; Capital Markets; Capital Structure; Information Technology; Patents; Creativity; Economic Systems; Development Economics; United States
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    • December 2006
    • Case

    Southern Company's Investment in CEMIG

    In the spring of 1997, Southern Company had the opportunity to acquire a significant portion of the electric utility in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The shares in the utility, CEMIG, were being sold by the state government as part of a comprehensive... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Privatization; Investment; Acquisition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Utilities Industry; Brazil
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    • 08 Feb 2024
    • Blog Post

    African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

    have a career that spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Through the joint degree program, I am building skills that will allow me to leverage the strengths of each sector to drive economic and... View Details
    • 16 Apr 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

    Administration at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Faia is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt and a Research Fellow at the Center... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis

    By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
    Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Behavior; Economics; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same subject. Using a... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; War; Poverty; Nepal
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    • March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
    • Case

    The Trouble with TCE

    By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella and Galit Goldstein
    Trichloroethylene, or TCE, was a chemical used by tens of thousands of businesses in the United States. It was an affordable tool for many. Yet, TCE had been associated with important health risks, including cancer and autoimmune disease. TCE potentially posed other... View Details
    Keywords: Trichloroethylene; Toxicity; Lobbying; Chemicals; Health Disorders; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • August 2015 (Revised October 2023)
    • Case

    Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott
    In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Finance; Strategy; Investment; United States
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    • 30 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

    Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper
    • April 2015
    • Case

    Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

    By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
    Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the... View Details
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    • 23 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

    uncomfortable spot of trying to maintain the tricky balance of bolstering economic development without completely killing cultural diversity. Glaeser, Kim, and Luca believe... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Case Study: The Home Team

    Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
    • 27 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Stock Price Fragility

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & David Thesmar