Movement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

developed a new second-year course: Investing—Risk, Return, and Impact. Here, they talk about preparing the next generation of investors for maximum impact. This movement is a decade old. Where does it stand? Shawn Cole: Investing for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that you've seen generally in the... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

On Credit

dating from 1840 to 1895, housed in Baker Library’s Historical Collections. Probably not the first thing you’d pick up for beach reading. Yet once the eyes adjust, a lost world opens up. Much like ours, it’s driven by human strivings large and small, and the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

movement as there is, say, in the tech space. I might have worked at Google for two years and then Dropbox for two years and Facebook for a couple years, and you know, there's a lot of cross-pollination of what are the best practices in... View Details

15 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

impact through collaborative movements rather than individual efforts, and to leverage and contribute to a diverse community. Being an agenda-setter means developing a broad knowledge base, often in contrast with the specific,... View Details

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

08 Jan 2019
News

Raising Prospects for Female Funders

Maria Eugenia Giron (MBA 1992) is an entrepreneur and investor in the luxury goods industry, based in Madrid. She’s a cofounder of Rising Tide Europe, a women’s angel investing group that is part of an international movement to provide... View Details

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

play with the product, the more energy is created to power the smart chip inside, thus removing the need for external charging. The products will be powered by M.O.R.E., the company’s proprietary, customizable technology that harnesses the power of View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

commensurate with those of other decorative art objects. After 1995, following a movement among critics, art historians, academics, and players such as galleries and auction houses, the same art was classified as modernist and therefore... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

is left with no choice but to do so.) Nevertheless, there is slow and I believe inexorable movement in the direction of a WDC, because it makes sense for all concerned. It will take time but it will happen. Just the other day the CEO of a... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

1920s, the company earned a huge notoriety for capturing the aesthetic and emotional dimension of the Art Deco movement in its design and gained a worldwide reputation for innovation and expertise in the realm of colored stones. Known as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

so fluid that all desks have wheels to allow free movement between "cabals" (teams) on a regular basis (which happens frequently enough that Valve created a homegrown tracking app to allow peers to find each other), a unique... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

Finally, there is a growing sense that firms are increasingly savvy with respect to tax planning and that profits are easily reallocated through the movement of intangible property or otherwise. As a result, the fairness of the overall... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

can effectively rewire some of the links in the network. In the case of venture capital, spanning ties enable investors with fixed locations and industry expertise to learn of opportunities outside their geographic and industry domains. "They're instrumental in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

These candidates are trying to adjust to what the voters care about.” You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Is It Even Possible to... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

transformed into symbolic intelligence. This requires, again and again, finding fresh new language so that you can explain, both to yourself and to others, what is occurring for you within each of the Four Element arenas. This movement... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

more from the online-only September Alumni Bulletin IMPACT section’s exploration of democracy-related issues. Making Democracy Work VP: The rise of populism takes different forms, but it has reached many countries recently, so there must be some common causes. A big... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

social, cultural, and legal environment. Given the prospect for continued movement toward competition and the propagation of "best practice" management ideas on a global scale, is the question largely academic? What do you... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Sep 2021
News

Green House

annual energy demand. The Passive House movement got its start in Germany in the early 1990s; by the mid-2010s, there were an estimated 60,000 Passive House buildings in the world. But many of those are boxy, modern structures. An... View Details

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