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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
product alternatives that come from the technology, and of customer needs that come from pressures in the marketplace, to see where opportunity will emerge. What that means is that most MBA students should go to work in an area they think... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the participants' reported experiences with traditional borrowing, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
of the roles and uses of management control systems (MCS), the paper explores how ERM achieved organizational significance in the studied settings. The findings are indicative of the current co-existence of alternative models of ERM. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
nontraditional way. There are numerous paths to leadership, and they don't all involve running a major corporation or being an entrepreneur." Alternative Work Situations The variety of paths to leadership often becomes apparent when women... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of "marriageable men." We also explore View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
and users can choose to outsource or select an alternative service provider.7 Let's look at each of these conditions in turn. The first condition states that a constituent finds value in the firm's outputs. Who satisfies this definition?... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
these sections that turned out to be the participants' favorite part, according to Hart. Hart discussed entrepreneurship as an alternative to corporate careers. "But," she explained, "I was careful to disabuse them of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
“Sugarcane EVA is a preferred material because it is made using swift-growing, rainwater-fed, renewable sugarcane. Using sugarcane provides a more sustainable alternative to petroleum-based, non-renewable materials often used in... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
biggest, challenges facing my generation. Shared, electric, autonomous vehicles will enable urban areas to become more sustainable and more livable by providing a better alternative for first and last mile transportation.” Initiatives... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011 Abstract Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic account combined with meetings in a self-help peer group; and a high-interest account. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
Even some of the forum participants, says Leonard, "didn't think what we are calling for is either appropriate for or likely to come from business and business leaders." And while Leonard agrees that some of the criticisms are valid, "the View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
agendas, whose strategies to build viable business models proved crucially dependent on two exogenous factors: the prices of alternative conventional fuels and public policy. Supportive public policies in various geographies facilitated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
and faces different climate challenges. Mumbai’s skyline, alternating between high–rises and informal settlements. Mumbai’s coastline faces significant exposure to rising sea levels. Planning is Only the First Step One topic that came up... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
That’s what we’re building: an alternative path to the traditional form of higher education. “We’ve already seen success. We’ve taken people without college degrees and have consistently placed them into incredibly high-paying jobs after... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk envisionment, aiming to provide top... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
What does it need to do on the financing side to accommodate the transition of its business model? The company is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is thinking about issuing additional convertible bonds to finance its growth. What is the funding need? What are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
recyclable cardboard “TopClip” to replace the conventional glue and plastic approach to hold a six-pack together. We learned that this innovation has resulted in significant savings in methane emissions. Grolsch is also investigating potential View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Industry Location Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Abstract A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace