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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
utility had made a public announcement it was accepting bids to implement a smart water network monitoring system, and Peleg wanted to discuss if and how aggressively TaKaDu should bid on the contract with his management team. TaKaDu... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
offered Ovia Health a multi-million-dollar contract, but Wallace wondered whether Ovia Health could create a better family benefits solution by turning down the contract and selling directly to employers’ HR departments. Participants will... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
more Americans were willing to borrow. Chimerica, in other words, was the underlying cause of the surge in bank lending, bond issuance, and new derivative contracts that “Planet Finance” witnessed after 2000. It was the underlying cause... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get this cash to these small firms faster, so they could expand their... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
commercial business," Spar said. "I think this is wrong. The demands of the parent will outweigh political and moral opposition." However, those who want to succeed in the market need to fight to shape property, privacy, and View Details
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
financial contracting to unlock innovation and help transform the social sector. Cases will require rigorous financial and investment analysis, building on and extending skills acquired in the RC finance courses. The landscape is changing... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
However, those lofty hopes were quickly dashed when Afrezza generated lackluster first-year sales, driving Sanofi to terminate its short-lived contract with MannKind in January 2016. MannKind's management attributed the launch’s failure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
first-time marriages among people over 30 (to which my clients skew) have a lower divorce rate nationally than those who marry under 30. The love business is not quantitative at all, actually. I don’t even have written contracts with... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
weighting of nonfinancial metrics in compensation contracts as a mechanism for generating improvements in nonfinancial dimensions of performance. I Read Playboy for the Articles: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
afterward, he and his mother contracted yellow fever; they were lying in bed together, very sick, when one morning he wakes up to find she's died. That's something you just don't get over, and I believe it contributed to the chip he... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
trading." Fighting is another (perhaps too) familiar negotiation improvisation. In these negotiations, the goal is to beat up on the other party, even if it means that you get hurt, too. Parties in labor contract negotiations... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
for every grade K–10, and recognizing that some students need a longer day or extended school year to meet those requirements; decentralizing decision-making and removing seniority from the union contract in the hiring of teachers;... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
of experiments based on behavioral game theory contradicts the Homo economicus model. In complex environments where complete contracts cannot be written or enforced, honesty, integrity, intrinsic job satisfaction, and peer recognition are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the possibility of increasing defaults (violations of loan-to-value covenants), foreclosures, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract of ten years on the rand/dollar exchange rate—which is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
"The core idea — an innovation in entrepreneurial finance—is to make prominent the role of people in making decisions." Thus an early reading for the "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, on the nature of financial View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
indicated that he believed that another doubling in size was feasible, but it would probably take a major acquisition to do so. And JCDecaux faced more pressing short-term issues. The contract for London bus shelters that the company had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times characterized by tight lending standards, high levels of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
manufacturer, subject to unconditional, multi-year sales minimums and significant forward financial obligations. Taking out long-term bank loans, his firm has purchased modern, high-speed machinery to manufacture this line. Yet his Walmart View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace