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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
silos within numerous academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and some disease-based foundations. For new precision therapies to be developed, these data sets need to be shared broadly. Patients can help lead this effort by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Marquis, Sergey Filippov, Henk-Jan Haasnoot, and Martijn van der Steen Abstract—This study investigates the role of national and organizational culture in day-to-day activities of multinational project teams, specifically focusing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the early 20th century, a lot of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones. For example, on the subject of environmental sustainability, the authors observed: "It is odd that business historians have not devoted more attention to sustainability, given that, arguably, the actions of View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
environmental performance. Several voluntary programs have arisen to encourage suppliers to report this information in a standardized manner, but the information companies report might misrepresent their performance and can thus mislead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
is the largest ice cream producer in Russia in 2002, but is facing strong competition from Nestle despite its success over other multinational competitors. Contains detailed exhibits, allowing deeper analyses. A rewritten version of an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism after 1848 and up the present day. It shows how multinational firms have created and co-created markets and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Western institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Maurer contends. In the case of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, the World Bank is acting as a watchdog to oversee the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
workers. Moreover, multinational companies pursued faster market growth abroad, often staffing these growth markets with their best and brightest. These trends were the real dark clouds on the horizon, with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
innovation in a wide range of other industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, IT and telecommunications, defense, chemicals, and agriculture. We believe that there are valuable lessons in this research for the energy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
to 34 year old males. Hirai was determined to restore that supremacy, in the current generation or the next. He knew that, whether or not he publicly defined SCEI's strategy as a response to Wii, he had to find a way for his company to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from thousands of suppliers in 46 countries. We find evidence that suppliers are more likely to share this information when requests for information from buyers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital transformation, managers need to navigate an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace