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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled View Details
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
PowerPoint looked. I thought there might be something more I could do by marrying my right-brain and left-brain abilities.” As he approached his 30th birthday, Amed knew he had to take a risk. He quit his job and began exploring the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
it, you would quit once a week." If the gypsies were to bring their road show to Macondo again, surely the Internet is the latest wonder they would be trumpeting. The conventional wisdom is that Internet development in the region is four... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media in the last decade had many marketers wondering if it might replace email altogether as a way... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
it came down to money. In previous studies, Fletcher says, participants were offered a higher pay rate per correct answer in the competitive scenario, so it's possible that men respond more to higher pay View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Web
Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
employees seeking advancement by moving to new organizations rather than climbing the internal ladder. Over the last decade, the annual quit rate—a key indicator of voluntary turnover—has steadily increased, peaking during the “Great... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
developed for entrepreneurship. This is not going to happen over the next three years, but it is quite likely over the next thirty to fifty years. My current research is exploring how this reverse migration would impact the United States'... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
percentage of Democrats working at utility companies, but a lower percentage of Democrats employed at energy companies. “It's quite striking to see these large differences in the political composition of certain industries and certain... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
sectors while being very much aware of the degree to which what we learn does or does not translate to energy. Q: What do you see as the most pressing change needed to drive clean energy innovation? A: We need to have a price for carbon. Simply trying to improve View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
government environment required to support citizens in the long term. The two goals can often be at odds, Werker says. Sirleaf was elected president in 2005 after an interim government was set up to move the country toward a more stable democracy. Liberia recently... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
governments. But Harris's satisfaction is as much personal as professional. "I come from inner-city Chicago, an area that was decimated by drugs," the 60 year old says. "To think we can do something to prevent some young people from following the wrong path is View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob Navon added, “Is the New Economy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
factors, there appears to have been quite substantial changes for the better over the past several decades. [NOTE] We will briefly discuss two of these determinants of the long-run supply of venture capital in the United States, where... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
through crisis while operating an ecommerce organization during Brexit. With business in the UK and across the EU, Furuseth and his team had to adjust to foreign exchange rates and find ways to quickly cut costs. The experience of rapid... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many countries. High real interest View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the deposit-taking institution, your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
company does not have a strong presence in the USA. So how do you penetrate the U.S. market? The annals of business are littered with foreign companies that have never quite succeeded in the USA. But here are four companies that have.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch