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Commencement 2012 Address | About
everywhere he goes, he impresses people by behaving graciously. So when I think about how you should measure your accomplishments in the years ahead, I’d suggest that you think about the stories other people will tell about you. Are you acting entitled? Are you using... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
attempt to answer it over time. Some things we come to understand immediately. Other things take time to underscore and relate to. Hanna: A few businesses are starting to investigate the benefits of meditation training and awareness for... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
"capitalism" fail to examine the role of the firm, perhaps the central institutional innovation of the last two centuries. Business historians have a chance to shift debates on the subject of modern government through the use of historical evidence.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
find that hard to say, even with the benefit of hindsight. Song prices certainly seem low, especially when compared with album prices. But we should not forget that labels were battling the threat of piracy, and before Apple came along it... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward future education expenses—one of... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
cover a wide category of items including grocery, clothing, and small ticket electronics.” Westphal was inspired by the business model Dzodan and his team had developed and how it could benefit people in Brazil. “Facily often serves lower... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
overlap," Carty emphasizes. "As managers, our challenge is to convince all of our employees and their unions' leadership to change the way we have done business in the past and to create more economic value in the business for the benefit... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
of Monetary Policy By: Du, Wenxin, Carolin E. Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
as a major threat for startups and small companies; big companies have more financial resources and greater scale, market power, and brand awareness than small ones. However, our research finds that a smaller brand can actually benefit if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Technical Note 713-090): 1. To describe what tax havens are and the mechanics of how these jurisdictions operate. 2. To evaluate tax havens as a model for country development. 3. To examine the economic and political benefits of the tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
above 5% annually and continue the country's leadership role among emerging economies. Between 2003 and 2010, Brazil benefited from strong economic growth and stable policies under the Lula administration. Brazil also increasingly led the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also raises new challenges. These include the higher likelihood of costly product returns when customers' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
within pre-existing cognitive categories and therefore do not benefit from a pre-existing understanding or identity of an industry. Given the importance of identity, it is critical that we understand how the identity of a new industry is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
compared to 56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We find that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger and that appointed analysts appear to be more closely tied to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
industry factors. The evidence on these interrelationships and the importance of multinationals to local economies suggests that global firms may be an important channel for transmitting economic shocks. This evidence also sheds light on asset pricing puzzles related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
Feminism is changing the statistics. Women account for ten percent of senior investment professionals. Female founders receive two percent of venture capital funding. We want and need to change these numbers, to provide equal opportunities for women and allow the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
anticipated benefits and efficiencies never materialized," explains Wruck. "Once deals are completed, disappointing outcomes can occur because perceived premerger synergies, such as product-line complementarities, are often elusive."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details