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- May 1976 (Revised October 1980)
- Case
FMC Crane and Excavator Division
Keywords: Construction Industry
- July 1975
- Article
Mineral Agreements in Developing Countries: Structures and Substance
By: Louis T Wells Jr and David Smith
- 1975
- Book
Negotiating Third World Mineral Agreements: Promises as Prologue
By: David N. Smith and L. T. Wells Jr.
- September 1974 (Revised October 1981)
- Background Note
Brief Description of Steelmaking
By: Paul W. Marshall
- August 1974 (Revised November 1974)
- Case
Reynolds Construction Company
By: Paul W. Marshall
Deals with the use of critical path method for the construction of remote control building, which is part of a water purification system. Discusses the necessity of determining the shortest possible time in which a job could be done without spending more money. Case... View Details
- February 1974 (Revised November 1977)
- Case
Perkins Engines (A)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and John Raticheck
Keywords: Industrial Products Industry
- November 1973
- Article
Men and Machines in Indonesia's Light Manufacturing Industry
By: Louis T Wells Jr
- January 1970 (Revised March 1987)
- Case
Ace Welding Equipment, Inc.
By: Edward W. Davis and W. Earl Sasser
Keywords: Construction Industry
- March 1969 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Industrial Products, Inc.
By: Joseph L. Bower and John W. Rosenblum
Involves the decision of whether to construct a new plant in another part of the country for a line of fire protection equipment. Capital funds set aside for the construction are blocked by Fireguard's continued record of substantial operating losses and divisional... View Details
- May 1968 (Revised January 1992)
- Case
Graybar Syndications
A potential investor evaluates a proposed offering—a major office building in downtown Manhattan. View Details
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A History of Green Entrepreneurship
This research recovers the history of the entrepreneurs and firms who developed green or “sustainable” businesses, identifies the multiple motivations behind their strategies, explores the clustering of green business in specific locations, and shows how the concept of... View Details
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Anonymity and Identity
By: John A. Deighton
In most consumer markets, consumers are accustomed to operating in relative anonymity. A complex social adjustment is occurring as people realize that anonymity is often no longer their default condition - it must be sought and in some cases bought. New conceptions of... View Details
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Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We construct an Overlapping-Generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely hedge... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks
By: John D. Macomber
This course is about building sustainable and resilient cities, future proofing real estate and infrastructure assets, and examining how businesses and investors find opportunities in climate adaptation.
The world faces substantial challenges in the face of... View Details
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Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation
By: Laura Alfaro
We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve... View Details
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Conceptualizing and measuring environmental sustainability
This research involves developing clarity around the murky construct of environmental sustainability, and improving techniques to measure corporate environmental performance. My prior research in this domain includes View Details