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  • 22 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

inspire coming up in an inner-city Chicago gang, escaping its grasp only by joining the Navy. The happiest people I have ever known, the Marshallese, have almost no material wealth and live on an island atoll in the middle of the Pacific.... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

successfully devote itself to providing objective advice and solutions to companies experiencing management problems. In 1933 Bower joined a small Chicago firm of "management engineers," a phrase coined by the firm's founder and namesake,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

50 Years & Counting

across the University who are at various stages of developing or launching businesses. During biweekly discussions at the Harvard Innovation Lab, topics run the gamut from attracting angel investors, to recruiting a team without funds, to how to respond if you've... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

conglomerates. Finally, we argue that the rise of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago from the 1960s onwards marks the decisive ascendancy of economics, and particularly financial economics, in business education... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

York and Chicago between 1977 and 1985, I show that legitimacy and status have a favorable impact on the growth of new firms' revenues and number of employees. The paper makes important contributions to social embeddedness and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45344 August 2013 University of Chicago Press Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?" By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Marisa Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three prospective tenants to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2024
  • News

Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

participating clubs have established dedicated scholarship funds, supported by events and fundraisers throughout the year. The HBS Club of Chicago pays for its SPNM awards through its Charitable Fund, which has allowed the club to send as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 Jun 2021
  • News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

Eisenmann analyze, methodically and with a very practical framework, why startups fail, was both convincing and enlightening,” says Etienne Deffarges (MBA 1985), cofounder and partner at Chicago Pacific Founders. “Starting the conference... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

published by the Academy of Management (August, 2005) as part of its Best Paper Proceedings. Her research on how young firms grow is based on data looking at new advertising agencies in New York and Chicago from 1977 to 1985. In this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

  PublicationsThe Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, eds. Publication:Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract Publisher's Book... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell, eds.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

  Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Meal Plan

Keith Pascal: I’m a creature of habit. Just outside Chicago there’s a wonderful Italian restaurant that’s just a hole in the wall—it’s actually called Francesco’s Hole in the Wall. There’s a table in the back of the kitchen that’s my... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • October 2015
  • Case

Bigbelly

By: Mitch Weiss and Christine Snively
To accelerate Bigbelly's sales growth and its "smart cities" positioning, its CEO planned to shift his company from equipment sales to a subscription service. Jack Kutner hoped to re-position Bigbelly's solar-powered trash compacting stations beyond trash and recycling... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Smart Cities; Government Innovation; Internet Of Things; IoT; Anything As A Service; Platform As A Service; Infrastructure As A Service; PaaS; Xaas; Bigbelly; Jack Kutner; B2G; Civic Innovation; City Innovation; Government Technology; Govtech; Civic Technology; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Innovation and Invention; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Web Services Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Massachusetts; United States; Boston; Chicago; Philadelphia; New York (city, NY)
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  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

display. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-053.pdf   PublicationsInternational Differences in Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar, eds. Publication:Chicago: University of Chicago Press for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

other prime locations in Chicago Downtown, and high interest rates suggested he should think long and hard before committing the company's resources to this speculative undertaking. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

Throughout late 2002 and early 2003, Koehn and her team continued working on the project. However, after many months of research and a visit to Chicago to watch Winfrey tape a show, they still had not gained access to company executives.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

2018 Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences By: Hanson, Gordon H., William R. Kerr, and Sarah Turner, eds. Abstract—Immigration policy is one of the most... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman