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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
example, the Building Owners and Managers Association International 2018 Office Experience Exchange Report indicates average office gross rents of $30.35 per square foot for private-sector office buildings, average utility costs of $2.14,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
misplace their trust nor refrain from trusting when doing so would have been beneficial), especially when they must do so rapidly and in the absence of an exchange history. Put simply, we have little understanding of what drives the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results: How does the monetary promise of... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
Japanese managers in foreign locations engaged in nemawashi and ringi by intensive telephone contact and frequent exchanges of visits between headquarters in Japan and the overseas units. View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
capital firms. 54 In addition, ARD was formed as a closed-end investment fund regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which placed limits on how those working for ARD could be compensated. Employees, for example, were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
money risk handicapping their venture if money dwindles or dries up completely. On the other hand, founders who accept funding risk losing control of their venture since there’s almost always an amount of control that founders relinquish in View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
pitched her business, which makes at-home lab testing kits on ABC's Shark Tank and sealed a deal for a $1M line of credit from investor Lori Greiner, in exchange for five percent equity in the company. The investment marks the largest... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
employer-based insurance will return Amitabh Chandra: More demand for insurance exchanges Recessions and pandemics create job losses that highlight the problems of tying health insurance to employment. Cleaving insurance from employment... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
company's business model. We analyze this process to explain how, under conditions of ambiguity, organizational goals can form through a collaborative social exchange that resembles the innovation process. Our research suggests that,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
themselves. Now more than ever, American society needs this kind of exchange of ideas.” Bill added, “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent.” Jesteeleconsult commented, “Looking the other way in times of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
deficit that drives up interest rates. She cares if we have a huge current account deficit and import everything from elsewhere. Her own business might erode to the point of failure. Finally, the American cares because our economic performance affects View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
gig workers,” the researchers write. The politics of gig work Aside from studying whether gig workers would be willing to sacrifice pay in exchange for having the freedom to set their own hours, the researchers also wanted to know: How... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
closed, the conversation continued in the main Zoom room, and then folks exchanged phone numbers with one another to keep chatting. I also feared that participants might not generate ideas. While we focus five weeks on hands-on techniques... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
markets, Tynan adds. With water exchanges already in place in some areas, “you are [starting] to see it more on a local level,” he says. The event concluded with some directions for change. Panelists talked about the need to prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture