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Casey Gerald
through three-hundred business situations with imperfect information and severe time constraints. You have to develop a framework for a vision, a way to articulate that vision, and the humility to accept... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
affect it? A: The kind of technology transfer my coauthors Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, and I study in our paper occurs when a parent of a multinational company provides information about industrial products or processes to an... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Casey Gerald
through three hundred business situations with imperfect information and severe time constraints. You have to develop a framework for a vision, a way to articulate that vision, and the humility to accept... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
asset value. We discussed the triumphs and tragedies of raising children and how difficult it really is to make decisions amid a maelstrom of imperfect information. I found sectionmates had become intimate soul mates as I shared my recent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
Over the last ten years, technology has reduced entire catalogues of consumer goods to devices that fit in the palms of our hands. Phones are smarter, networks are faster, and more people have access to more information than ever before.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how... View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path
requirements and need the same quality of experiences. There is a wealth of information out there about the application process. I don’t have many golden nuggets to add, except to say that by thinking long and hard about why you’re... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
"... we need a carefully crafted, long term 'Social Engineering' campaign to transform the common mindset of people to foster a culture of thrift and prudence...." Others favored and suggested nudges. Peter Ubel argued that "We human beings are View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
immediate appeal for the atypical user was that the game was simple and unintimidating. But it was also a fun social activity, a diverting game to bring out during the holidays or at informal get-togethers. By using stealth positioning,... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-offshoring-and-global-employment-9780199765904;jsessionid=ED4AD048AB53EE6A416F900D0D5B42AE?cc=us&lang=en& 2013 pub Market Imperfections and Sustainable Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
future. A Lucrative Business Patent trolling can be a lucrative undertaking because of the ambiguous nature of intellectual property. "A patent troll is a firm that sues opportunistically in hopes that an imperfect legal system will... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
Protection Bureau with requiring banks to collect and maintain certain data in connection with credit applications made by women- or minority-owned businesses and small businesses.) However, the information that exists paints a troubling... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
serve in the interim, but sometimes that period provides time for a quick look at a younger insider. Usually the insiders will look incomplete, while the outsiders will look like an imperfect match. But given the record of outsiders, one... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
between a hospital's focus on both conformance and experiential dimensions of quality and their impact on financial and clinical outcomes. Imperfect Information, Patent Publication, and the Market for Ideas Hong Luo and a colleague study... View Details
Keywords: by Staff