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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
even after controlling for the focal district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results highlight that the traits of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
the “Infrastructure Paradox.” Investors have an easy explanation for the paradox: a lack of bankable projects. For bankers (admittedly a broad characterization), a “bankable” project has several characteristics: a clear source of repayment from revenues, no market... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency depreciation had a statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
launch a new blockchain currency to facilitate financial services for unbanked and underbanked customers in emerging markets via their smartphone. Santos had to decide whether to go forward with the new plan despite regulatory risk,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
solutions aren't straightforward. Some reforms are surely not as strong as they should be, and current events in Congress should remind us that risks can escalate beyond the control of even the best regulations. But overall there is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
women was the power to control their own money and time. Koehn quoted Josephine Baker, a factory worker who, in 1847, wrote, "The money we earn comes promptly and comes to us. When we are finished we feel perfectly free until the time to... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the returns on labor. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
1994 and 2010, indicating the CPP is an influential event in the history of U.S. bank SEOs during this period. Controlling for economic and regulatory capital determinants of SEOs, CPP recipients were more likely than non-recipients to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
currency), the asset valuation effects occasioned by currency depreciation (or appreciation) act to absorb global shocks and render consumption smoother. In this setting, countries do not accumulate high levels of reserves to be depleted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
of many of the "Asian Tigers," its development has followed a unique path. The country suffered for years under a dictatorial political regime and protectionist economic policies. Remittances were the largest source of hard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
beginning. Before Roshan launched, demand for its service was so high that a prelaunch informational leaflet began selling in the Kabul bazaar for $1. Police were called in to control the crowds waiting outside Roshan’s flagship store in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
conclusion that investing in Detroit is like investing in an emerging economy without political and currency risk.” Cummings has formed a new company to manage his Detroit projects: The Platform. The name has many meanings for him. A... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
"hitch" changes (a hitch is the two-week stint each worker does offshore, followed by two weeks off-duty). Each facility contains space for outdoor work, production facilities, power generation, drilling operations, control... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a... View Details
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whistleblowers. Career Focus The course is relevant for future leaders, as they develop expertise to understand financial reporting implications of business decisions and identify key control fault-lines in companies that can lead to... View Details