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- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
managers whose company's stock price is very sensitive to earnings news," Farre-Mensa says. Stein's model suggests that such managers might avoid investing in a long-term profitable project if it meant... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
recession as feeling “like someone turned off the faucet” in construction. Still, Magagnini hopes IceStone can break even this year and turn a profit next year. The green building market is with her: McGraw-Hill Construction projects it... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox products accounting for over $2.5... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among American media companies in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
scale the latter and to offer packaging materials at a price that’s actually viable for that kind of commodity. Between those extremes, Macro Oceans also produces a flexible biopolymer, called alginate, that’s widely used in the food... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high cost of drug development—as much... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
that related to risk. Here’s a bunch of people giving money at 50 percent to projects that really should only be charged 10 percent. Well, if markets work correctly, after a little while people will come rushing in, bidding up the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
result in fewer mistaken items showing up in your bags (or missing from them). “Good stores today run with 93 percent accuracy,” Pedró says. “We project 99.9 percent accuracy.” 4.Thirty minutes after placing the order, you pull into a... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
with the exception of the very large ones like the United States, will represent the interests of a handful of other countries. In 2008, the IBRD and the IDA committed nearly $25 billion in loans and grants through some 300 development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: 3M
every day – from respirators that allow painters and welders to breathe easier to stethoscopes that allow doctors to monitor astronauts in space. We generate sales of nearly $32 billion from our five business groups (Health Care,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
represents a growing trend or an unsettling blip, but one thing is certain: As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. The movies are still a $25 View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
Natural disasters are a different story: though they occur much less frequently, when they do happen it's akin to thousands or even tens of thousands of pipes bursting and homes burning all at once. Hurricane Irene, for instance, inflicted an estimated $6.6 View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
One day in July 1995, shortly after his appointment to head the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn took time out from a project visit in the African bush for an impromptu chat with a village official. For those present, it was a memorable sight:... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
undertake positive net present value projects. These projects typically reflect the comparative advantages of the firm and are the raison d'être of the firm. "Passive" risks are risks associated with investments when returns are... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
the Bajaj Group in India; Güler Sabancı, head of the $14 billion Sabancı conglomerate in Turkey; and Manu Chandaria, chairman of the multimillion-dollar Comcraft Group in Kenya. Growing In A Slow-moving Economy Rahul Bajaj In his... View Details