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James J. Hill
Hill, a railroad builder and entrepreneur, was a pioneer of the Northwest in a variety of ways. He located his roads and terminal facilities in potentially productive areas, he constructed them for economical operation at minimum cost... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Perkins Caufield & Byers Menlo Park, Shanghai, Beijing Greentech venture capital Andrew Falender (MBA 1969) Appalachian Mountain Club Multiple US locations United States' oldest outdoor recreation and conservation organization James... View Details
- September 2023
- Article
Judging Foreign Startups
By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning and Tarun Khanna
Can accelerators pick the most promising startup ideas no matter their provenance? Using unique data from a global accelerator where judges are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe, we show that judges are less likely to recommend... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Global Strategy; Entrepreneurial Financing; Innovation; International; Entrepreneurship; Judgments; Business Startups; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy
Wright, Nataliya Langburd, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna. "Judging Foreign Startups." Strategic Management Journal 44, no. 9 (September 2023): 2195–2225.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
What Makes Israel Tick?
Israel is a paradox. It’s small, lacking in natural resources, preoccupied with security, and highly diverse. Yet it generates an outsized number of start-ups, attracts huge sums of venture capital, lures corporations to set up research facilities, and boasts some of... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
The New Digital Divide
By: Mayana Pereira, Shane Greenstein, Raffaella Sadun, Prasanna Tambe, Lucia Ronchi Darre, Tammy Glazer, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia and Juan Lavista Ferres
We build and analyze new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across forty million Windows devices in U.S. households. These measures of US household digital usage are much more comprehensive than... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Measurement and Metrics; Geographic Location; Behavior; Technology Adoption; Demographics
Pereira, Mayana, Shane Greenstein, Raffaella Sadun, Prasanna Tambe, Lucia Ronchi Darre, Tammy Glazer, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia, and Juan Lavista Ferres. "The New Digital Divide." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32932, September 2024.
- April 2011
- Article
Local Dividend Clienteles
We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks, and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Demographics; Investment; Geographic Location; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations
Becker, Bo, Zoran Ivkovic, and Scott Weisbenner. "Local Dividend Clienteles." Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011): 655–684.
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Industry Classification Benchmarks
How do I find the ICB for a company? The Industry Classification Benchmark system is a classification system for industry activities widely used by institutional investors. Use Bloomberg to locate the Industry... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f0a1b93d#/f0a1b93d/12 Working PapersLocation Choices under Strategic Interactions Author:Juan Alcacer Abstract The literature on location... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
census data on retail stores located in England, Sadun found that stricter planning restrictions against big-box stores actually coincided with independent retailers closing down or hiring fewer workers, a signal their business was... View Details
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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library
firms are not included in LSEG Workspace access (e.g. Goldman Sachs, BOFA Merrill Lynch, etc.) How to locate COMPANY analyst reports: Use LSEG Workspace Enter the ticker symbol or company name On the company overview page, click on the... View Details
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Conferences or trade shows
players, view the products and locate information on companies presenting at the shows. Trade Group: search and browse for trade shows and conferences. Conference Alerts: search for academic conferences by topic. Trade Show News Network :... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
economy to a market economy. Many foreign investors have expressed renewed interest in Mongolia due to its rich natural resources (e.g., copper, gold, coal, uranium) and its strategic geographic location relative to its neighbors, China... View Details
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Compact Disclosure & Worldscope CD-ROMs
Where can I find company data located in Compact D/SEC and Worldscope? The Worldscope data set is available remotely through Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). Users must sign up for an individual account. In addition, this data... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Global Get-Together
On nearly every continent and across many time zones, October 20 marks the day when HBS alumni will gather for an evening of informal networking. The second HBS Global Networking Night aims to provide a low-key, fun event for alumni to participate in social, business,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
locations of natural phenomena such as mountains and rivers, there are lucky and unlucky places and orientations for buildings; there are auspicious and inauspicious locations for rooms; there are even right... View Details
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Search for Special Collections | Baker Library
Search for Special Collections We have numerous tools to assist you with locating and requesting books, serials, archival and manuscript collections, and other materials in our holdings. Catalogs & Databases The HOLLIS catalog searches... View Details
- February 2007 (Revised August 2007)
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St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision
St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to New York City. While charter schools are its largest area of activity, founder Kevin Johnson believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities--economic development, civic... View Details
Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Urban Scope; Adaptation; Expansion; Sacramento; New York (city, NY)
Childress, Stacey M., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision." Harvard Business School Case 307-080, February 2007. (Revised August 2007.)
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Stata and Maintaining Version Stability - Research Computing Services
version of Stata that is installed. Likewise, using the command line wrappers stata-mp4-5g and their permutations ( [x]stata-[se|mp4|mp8][-5g|-10g-20g] ) will also run the latest Stata version. To run older versions of Stata, one must use custom LSF commands to submit... View Details
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Patent search: a given number search
search box to locate the patent document. In this case, the actual patent number shown in the patent document via Google Patent is "JP4021865B2". Notice the last two characters "B2". That is called "Kind... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
overly dependent on downtown locations that were losing shoppers to suburban malls. Some New England rivals were opening discount stores in abandoned textile mills, which came with cheap rents and plenty of parking space. Mr. Feldberg,... View Details