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- 07 Sep 2016
- News
Appreciating the Big Role of Small Business
“Why isn’t anyone talking about Joe the Plumber in this presidential election?” Dean Nitin Nohria asks in a new opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, in which he makes a case for the vital role of small business in the America’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
Not along ago, consultant Alison Sander (MBA ’86/JD ’87) was invited to evaluate the potential for sustainable investment opportunities in Ecuador’s rain forests, where petroleum reserves were being parceled out to international energy... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two distinct economic forces: location fundamentals and agglomeration economies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
opportunities for human development are key to regenerating a middle class on which the US Constitution depends, I was surprised that there wasn’t a greater sense of urgency in many of the comments. Alan Levy led the enthusiasts with the... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
market. Q: In your paper, you explain that your analysis of the "classical concern" in the diffusion of new technologies is based on technological progress versus economic resources. Can you explain this? A: The classical debate... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
he said. “And I believe my mother is exceptional, but that approach cannot work for everyone.” Drawn to a career focused on economic uplift and shared prosperity, Mbanusi looked for ways to address poverty at scale which led him to focus... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
back. That's because of the interest shown in them and the great people they'd met during the year. This course has really transformed our rural county. I believe it should be offered in every town in America." Highlights from the Creating Entrepreneurial View Details
- Portrait Project
Nneka Ezeigwe
home is rarely an option. You migrate to get a world-class education; you stay abroad to find the opportunities that set you up for the career success you desire. You leave loved ones behind, make new friends, lose touch with old ones,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
coincided with the creation of the modern corporation, the mass market, and America's economic preeminence. Given this vast sweep of time, Koehn's narrations—in a series of original essays and timelines—serve as signposts to readers,... View Details
- Web
Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog
won Ronald Coase the Nobel Prize in Economics [2] and which, unless we believe that one company will take over the world, is the logical corollary of the first, asks, "What is the limit to the scope of the firm?" The third question... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its View Details
- Profile
Rakhi Mehra
Throughout her school years, Rakhi Mehra had been deeply focused on competitive swimming. But a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford sparked an entirely new passion for her: making social impact. "Oxford gave me the support and vision to consider the consequences of View Details
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Fangfang Wang
Brookings Institution and Mars. After four years with the latter, she became intrigued by start-up opportunities in education. Despite Mars' efforts to recruit the best university graduates available for its management trainee program,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
strong economic potential. But when it came time to search for an entrepreneurial opportunity in earnest, Thornton realized she didn't have to travel much farther than her own closet to find her niche. "As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Profile
Amy Sennett
rewarding opportunities in the developing world or in unconventional investments.” In January, Amy participated in the first Rwanda IXP where she worked with a consulting group helping a furniture manufacturer redesign its layout for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
first and second-year MBA students. During the four-day course, he worked with Elkins to provide an overview of Africa’s economic landscape, range of business opportunities, and the speed of growth and change occurring there, and also... View Details