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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

impending, were confident in the financial system. Figure 9: What Are You Most Worried About? 3. Reflections on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 and Its Aftermath In addition to asking participants about current risks to the U.S.... View Details

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

Valley, bringing his wife and two young children along with him. For Mikitani, the 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northeastern Japan brought back memories of the earlier disaster. This time, however, he was in a position to help. In View Details

22 Sep 2022
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The Beauty Guide

seek diverse, young talent and to teach the next generation of leaders how to take control of their careers.” It is important to Freyre, a Latina herself, that she should provide guidance within a culture that greatly respects and values... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

$12 million in sales. Over the next 30-plus years, Dahod built five additional companies, each capitalizing on his own insights into technology and what the future would require—be it high-speed switching (Sigma Networks), high-speed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

(HHI), varies across the sectors comprising the industry, but all are within the range generally considered as indicative of a competitive industry. The data available allowed HHI to be calculated for the period 1977-2002 in the case of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2018
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Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls.... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Cait Haught

for nonprofit leaders Cait did not want an MBA to serve as "career changer:" "I like finance, and I know I want to work with organizations doing good." Instead, she wanted a general management degree that would... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope until tractor technology generalized. The sequence of diffusion is consistent with a model of research and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

develop our product prototype and formally study the financial impact a digitally-enabled solar irrigation business can have on rural entrepreneurs and their communities. Based on the results of the pilot, we will scale our model to View Details

04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

market based on free riding produce high-quality products? Third, from a public policy perspective, does the mandatory sharing of enhancements raise or lower consumer surplus and industry profits? We develop a two-sided model of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No studies have previously been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Received the 2016 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2015 Sunil Gupta : Received the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2014 Eva Ascarza : Winner of the 2014 Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award for “A Joint Model of... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

the 1994 merger of BWH and Massachusetts General Hospital. He later served as the founding co-chair of the merged entity, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. In addition to BWH, McArthur was a director of... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

School clubs he had joined, he decided to apply. “It was just curiosity,” Goble says. The program, now known as Nucleate, which is dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders, hosted what Goble remembers as a kind of... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 Apr 2022
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Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

a percentage of the revenue they generate by platforms, as J. K. Rowling was with the Harry Potter series, which made her a multimillionaire. In China, some authors have become wealthy under revenue-sharing View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

as new players enter these markets and change the ecosystem of the industry. Although no single model has been successfully imported from one country to another due to significant country-specific differences in the regulatory financial... View Details