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20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

whole energy situation. The US suddenly has a potential surplus of energy through the production of oil and especially natural gas trapped in shale. This development is a potentially transformational asset, and major activities in View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

cofounder Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004). In fact, if Earth were 50 percent larger, with a correspondingly stronger gravitational pull, no form of chemical propulsion would contain enough energy to launch a spacecraft into orbit.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

March 2019
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Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

The recent sharp decline in the cost of renewable energy suggests that the production of hydrogen from renewable power through a power-to-gas process might become more economical. Here we examine this alternative from the perspective of an investor who considers a... View Details

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20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

firms share a type of commons. We theorize that the need to protect this commons can motivate the formation of a self-regulatory institution. Using data from the US chemical industry, we find that spillover harm from industrial accidents... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

chemical industry lobby. In all three of these cases (and especially in the latter two), the proposed legislation became unstoppable in the aftermath of a relevant horror story-e.g., Love Canal, in the case of Superfund-that received... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2006
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Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

journals. He was tenurable as a chemical engineer at any major university anywhere in the world in his early thirties. He also wrote a textbook called Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices, which was widely adopted and widely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

May 25, 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

By: John A. Quelch

Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details

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companies, media, and the people) and their impact on business. Representative cases include Lobbying in the chemical industry in the U.S.; Unrest in Chile, Looting at Walmart International; and Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News. The... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

and a team of investors bought the shuttered plant and got it up and running again. Adopting a local word for "genesis," Okoloko would call his new company Notore Chemical Industries Ltd. Looking for professional managers two years later,... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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