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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak performance in recent years and is looking to increase its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We explore the implications of a real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
governance are the most daunting because the very foundations of governance—vote allocation proportionate to economy, representation by finance ministries, absence of parliamentary scrutiny, and the relative voicelessness of the poorest... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
emphasis on valuation and capital structure. Serves as the basis for a bankruptcy reorganization game that has been used for many years in Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, a second-year finance course. The game is played in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
borrowing in the mid-1990s, but a severe financial crisis later that decade created a new layer of economic problems. In 2010, in the context of the global economic downturn, Jamaica once again returned to the IMF for financing support.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
professional relationships may "bridge" the asymmetric information. This bridge may be particularly strong if both firms were financed by the same venture capital firm. Third, geographic proximity may also reduce the asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
relocated to a larger store and is experiencing losses for the first time. Sales and costs have increased along with the breakeven point. Changes in pricing and promotion must be explored. Alternative actions to return to profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
supported this prediction. Auxiliary analyses suggest that contrast effects and non-random scheduling of interviews are unlikely alternative explanations. Six Myths of Product Development Authors:Stefan Thomke and Donald Reinertsen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
displace traditional hydrocarbons as the primary source for energy, particularly for large scale transportation, for at least the next 10 to 15 years. We think, and I personally believe, that traditional demand for hydrocarbons will continue to grow, even as technology... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
have their stacks of bottles burst as a SodaStream user hits the machines' carbonation button. The message: making your own soda saves the world from the scourge of plastic bottles. The ad was rejected by CBS but went viral, ultimately pushing the message of SodaStream... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II embraced credit access as a means to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
energy at the district level as well as sourcing clean energy from large-scale suppliers. For cities and businesses, millions of dollars saved is equal to millions of dollars earned, and that can readily be achieved through greater efficiencies. While clean tech and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and (ii) complete stability in the dispersion of attention across sites and in the intensity of attention within sites. We illustrate how this finding is difficult to reconcile with standard models of optimal attention allocation and suggest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
a mix of both. Wherever clubs fall on this spectrum, having a strategy that recognizes the global importance of stars is critical to long-lasting financial success. August 2013 Journal of Finance A Comparative-Advantage Approach to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel