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  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

and Galanz, which has brought microwave ovens to millions of Chinese consumers previously considered too poor to buy such an appliance. What’s more, the essentials of development can be “pulled in” by market-creating innovators—and over time, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

understanding the factors that govern business growth in emerging markets. Leaders interviewed in 20 countries include Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder and chair, of Bangladesh’s BRAC microfinance company; Rosario Bazan, founder and CEO of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and available capacity. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2008
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Decoding the Artful Sidestep

conditions, but the egregiousness of the dodge varied. We initially came up with a few different responses that we thought were of roughly similar "quality" and had participants read the same question followed by the different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2001
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The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

time, those patriarchal systems tend to diminish initiative and entrepreneurship, discouraging individuals to take different stands, go out and do different businesses or take different paths. It is a curious feature of human psychology... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

aspects of risk including political risk, foreign exchange risk, market risk, and execution risk. Further, the discussion covers social aspects including whether the slum should be redeveloped at all, whether it should be redeveloped by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2001
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Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 03 Nov 2008
  • HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

government intervention." This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story. The beginnings of MME lie with case protagonist Ryland Utlaut (the group's president) and ten other farmers, who put together seed money of $25,000 in 2002... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

  PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

experiments replicated and extended this basic effect, providing evidence of when and why it occurs. Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm’s bottom line. Government Technology... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

http://ssrn.com/abstract=1238158 Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting a Stop to the Earnings Game Authors:Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen Abstract Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

JetBlue moved from a single aircraft type (i.e., the Airbus 320, or A320) to a fleet with two types of aircraft by adding the smaller Embraer 190, or E190. Students are initially asked to consider the impact of this decision on JetBlue's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2016
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April 26

Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2014
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Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

Government archives are often poorly organized or inaccessible. There's really no way to know the history." An initial pilot effort grew out of interviews in 2008 with von Appen and nine other Chilean... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 04 Apr 2011
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Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

program to reduce health care costs by focusing on providing better care to that 5 percent—often those patients who rack up exorbitant costs with repeat emergency room visits. In a New Yorker article, Gawande writes that for an initial... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

with their work, performed their tasks more effectively, and were also more likely to return to work when initial socialization focused on personal rather than organizational identity. In addition, authentic self-expression mediated these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate governance practices across legal families... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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