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  • 12 Jan 2015
  • News

Good Investments

greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

and risk. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

little different for supposedly constrained and unconstrained firms, even though we find important differences in their characteristics and sources of financing. On the other hand, privately held firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2002
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Lessons in Leadership

to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
  • 01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance

Look for a social niche to fill. The heart of starting a social enterprise is to answer the question of where it will fit in. Align your project with an existing organization as a new department. Your chances of success are greater under... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

national stakeholders to initiate litigation against the focal firm. We test our predictions using a two-pronged empirical strategy. Our empirical context relates to herbal patents from emerging markets, and given that we have a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging
  • 04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X1400254X November 2014 Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2378558 Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

contractual, reputational, and legal risks to overcome in making the project a success. Given these risks, Enterprise is unsure whether to rebuild in New Orleans at all and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely, unions View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

small administrative team, and a network of experts have focused on 15 candidates for consideration in the first round of funding. The nonprofit expects to award grants to three to five organizations when it... View Details
Keywords: April White

    William C. MacInnes

    MacInnes was instrumental in orchestrating the growth of TECO Energy from a small $17 million operation with 700 employees to an $860 million enterprise with 3,500 employees. While ridiculed at the time,... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy
    • 01 Mar 2012
    • News

    Get Creative

    developed an important insight into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
    • 23 Jul 2013
    • News

    Building Great Schools around Great Teachers

    performance. While Klemmer delights in the anecdotal evidence, he cautions that the sample is too small to claim measurable student improvement. But he is thinking big. "Look at World War II. We had 150,000 trained military personnel in... View Details
    Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
    • 24 Apr 2014
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    Driving the family business onto a global stage

    vehicles, Mahindra has engineered mergers and acquisitions that have catapulted the Mumbai-based corporation onto the world stage. Today, the multibillion-dollar enterprise is involved in information... View Details
    • 10 Nov 2015
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    November 10, 2015

    Don't Learn: Our Traditional Obsessions—Success, Taking Action, Fitting In, and Relying on Experts—Undermine Continuous Improvement By: Gino, F., and B. Staats Abstract—For any View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Sep 2006
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    First Look: September 26, 2006

    the economy that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT) in general and enterprise... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne