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- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
related to per capita income. We also find that economic conditions affect conflict dynamics, as poorer countries are likely to experience longer and more intense spells of fighting after the onset of conflict. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
per capita. MSP's diversified base of industry clusters had enabled the region to adapt to economic downturns and an exodus of major corporate headquarters, earning it the accolade "Minnesota Miracle." Starting in 2003, however,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
facilitate the efforts of professionals there by decreasing the time required per case. It provides a good solution where expertise is limited if no one has significant thoracic experience, for example. It creates the potential for... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
explicit limit on carbon emissions from oil sands and a price on carbon. Suncor, which produces more than 400,000 barrels per day of bitumen and synthetic oil must reduce its emissions at the same time that crude oil prices have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
tranches. Overall, a one standard deviation reduction in average time on the market decreases the interest rate for institutional loans by over 30 basis points per annum. While this effect is significantly larger for loan tranches bought... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population and per capita consumption growth, the limited nature of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
612-033 Pret A Manger Pret A Manger, a London-based chain of sandwich shops, was known for its fast, genuine service and pre-packaged sandwiches prepared on-site daily. Instructed by its board to grow at 15% per year, Pret considered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
manufacturer in the world. In the mid-1980s, Giant produced over a million bikes per year with the Giant brand on fewer than 15% of them; by 2008, Giant was producing 6.4 million bicycles with 70% carrying the Giant brand. And in 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
including 40 kinds of cheesecake. The average per-person check and return visits per restaurant are an estimated 50 percent higher than the industry average. In the kitchen, a modular menu process (revised every six months) keeps costs... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
entrepreneurial ventures handle more than 2,000 donations per year or 10 percent of the yearly volume of donations. D. A Glimpse into the Future? The competitive forces that may appear in this new "market" are poorly understood.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
quickly and release new operating systems several times per year. Students are faced with the analysis of competitive interaction between the Windows and Linux business models and value loops and are asked to reason whether a clear winner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
certainly opening, and it is a global window. All advanced economies, even those with universal insurance, are starting to confront the reality that the healthcare system is not aligned to drive value for the patient, or the health outcomes View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial assessment is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
$1 per can. According to this testimony, Walmart rejected Blitz's design on the basis of the price increase, and Blitz halted its redesign project because it would be difficult to launch a national product that Walmart refused to... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
available reaches a certain point. There's debate about where the point is, but let's say ten megabits per second. That's roughly twenty times faster than most cable modem connections in the United States. Once that is in place, and is... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
these assessments more complex and add more classifications, we limit the first run-through to just two alternatives per dimension which then generate eight distinct profiles that we can use to help us assess what we want to do. Even if... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
per se. Reward programs give them a reason to go to a particular store and spend money. Once a customer comes into a store where they have purchased items in the past, chances are, they will spend. And they will spend money that they may... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
productivity: 15.6% higher h-indices, 11.7% more coauthors, 12.7% more research articles, and 25.1% more citations per scientist. Moreover, using natural language processing (NLP) techniques on the set of research abstracts produced among... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
sample period; a calibration suggests that a 10 percentage-point increase in Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted assets may have increased this to between 100 and 130 basis points per year. In summary, the low risk anomaly in the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne