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- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
the country. Naturally, smaller plots will have lower yield and, therefore, create income constraints for farmer’s livelihoods. Secondly, given such a large swath of the population depends on farming income,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and suffered in great part due to Porsche's View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and his family grow their crop on a... View Details
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Prita Kumar
said to myself, `You’re not going to have an income during this time anyway, so why don’t you go ahead and try to make the most of the experience and try out an idea and move it along?’” From her first semester in the fall of 2012, Kumar became immersed in doing... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
procurement relationships for manufacturers and that this effect is partially mediated by the level of joint action and the quality of information exchange between the partners. Decomposing dependence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
suggested that " doctors rush when the illness is serious managers, when faced with little time and pressure to get things done, fail to think well and so make poor decisions." Itamar Offer, a physician, said that "information is always View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment costs that depend on the size of price changes also raise... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
of course, sequester carbon in the biomass and sediment.3. Creating a natural habitat: Mangroves are the natural habitat for a wide range of species, whose feeding, roosting, and breeding cycles depend on the health of these forests.4.... View Details
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
advertising services may be partially integrated in the sense that the in-house agency provides only a limited range of services—say, ad production and media placement—and an independent or outside agency is relied on for other... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
have turned into an extremely popular form of entertainment-on-the- go in Japan, in particular among young, female readers. In fact, consisting mostly of love stories written by amateurs in short sentences and containing little plot or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
“Let’s be clear about what we are claiming,” note Rob Austin and Lee Devin, coauthors of the new book Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know about How Artists Work. “As business becomes more dependent on knowledge to create value, work... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
high degree of variance. These findings suggest that different cultural value orientations exert different patterns of effects on the performance of self-managing multicultural teams, depending on the stage of team formation. Implications... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Americans. Americans would limit their emotional connections with those on whom they depend for economic resources (for example, budget allocations, financing, personal loans). In fact, the presence of an economic tie decreases... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
senior executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital market pressures and executives' short-term monetary incentives. Consistent with the language emphasized during conference calls View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal:... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
entails the risk of becoming dependent on outside owners of IP. To address this tension we propose the concept of "IP modularity." We argue that, by managing a system's modular structure in conjunction with its IP, firms can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
massive cost overruns and delays. Second, the United States captured most of these economic benefits, partially because of its geographical situation and partially because it could leverage its military... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace