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How $40 Loans Lifted Lives in Kenya | Working Knowledge
Applicants’ mobile phone use data Tala captured information like borrowers’ mobility—measured by the number of cell towers they passed and the cities they visited—and financial transactions, based on the amounts of money mentioned in their SMS messages, and the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
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longest-running and most successful media strategy in U.S. advertising history," according to Advertising Age. McCraw reminds readers that despite the present-day size of behemoths such as McDonald's and Ford Motor Company, each began as... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate influence the shapes and sizes of industrial clusters; we confirm these predictions using variations across patent technology clusters. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
the growth of the total size of the operation in terms of the total number of stores? Does the acquisition of China Paradise put Gome in a position that it would again be very high in total number of stores but falling behind in the per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
equivalent of taking about 40,000 vehicles off the road in terms of reducing the emissions, which is incredible, and that’s just at our little size of a dozen restaurants. So if we’re able to scale this, the opportunity is so large, and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
ideologues seeking to point fingers, assign blame, and make reckless changes to the system. One US senator recently unveiled the Accountable Capitalism Act, which requires corporations of a certain size to procure a federal charter that... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our strongest results are for portfolios based on book-to-market, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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proactive Ability to work independently What makes it challenging to work in the Doctoral Programs? Small size of the department Dynamic nature of the doctoral student experience requires flexibility to change focus at times The... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
you’re sampling from a biased set, even if you have a thousand, a million, ten million samples, your sample is still going to be biased. There’s no amount that you can use to overcome a biased sample. Size will never eliminate the bias.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
retail, the book offers prescriptive advice to store-based retailers caught in the squeeze. "First off, there is no one size fits all answer," says Alvarez, a senior lecturer. "Your strategy depends on what type of items you sell, who... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
experiment and their interactions can make it difficult to determine cause-and-effect relationships. Choosing the right sample size is important. How can we ensure reliable results? Randomized field trials, "blind" tests, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008
and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
population of available patient-donor pairs grows, the frequency with which exchanges can be arranged will depend in part on how exchanges are organized. We study the potential frequency of exchanges as a function of the number of patient-donor pairs, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
both those you might expect, such as NASCAR, and some that are more surprising, such as Sallie Mae. And slowly, larger advertisers like Coca-Cola have entered the market. “I still have to explain what esports is sometimes, but then I tell them about audience View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
driving the M&A; boom of the 1990s is companies' need - in response to today's highly competitive global economy - for both speed and brawn. Firms must be imposing enough in terms of size and resources to hold their own in the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan Abstract—Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
well as to other cyclic groups in the system. We show that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of development-open,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne