Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

the Act's provision. Thus, many opportunities open up for entrepreneurial pursuits. In this context, mom-and-pop shops have emerged alongside more traditional academic-housed programs to procure whole-body donations. As an illustration, a... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

the number of interviews expands further. "We became ever more ambitious: to transform both the research and the teaching about business and entrepreneurship in emerging markets" Jones: This past year we extended out interviews... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

leverage during bad times. If refinancing-facilitated homeowner-equity extraction is sufficiently widespread—as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market—the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

organizational changes since 2005, the most recent of which started in 2012. His latest experimentation was turning Haier into a platform for entrepreneurship. Employees and those outside Haier could set up microenterprises on Haier’s... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

5-year roadmap known as the "2015 EPS roadmap." The case is set in May 2014, just after IBM's annual investor briefing. Despite more than 10 years of strong financial performance, IBM reported relatively weak financial results... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

pushed them to the forefront in this area. After that, individual countries such as Australia and Canada announced they would be converging with IAS soon. By this point, many countries have indicated they intend to be on IAS within the foreseeable future, so it has... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

cashmere fibre (14 micrometers in diameter and 36 millimeters in length). It is estimated that only 2 out of 1,000 grams of cashmere measure up to the standard of 1436. Describing the brand evolution over its first 8 View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Q: What are the root causes of these differences in negotiation success? Riley Bowles: What some studies do is look at salary and control for a whole bunch of things: How many years of experience the subjects had, what program they were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

turned out, though, that Intel's revenues from memory were by this time only 4 percent of total sales. Intel's lower-level managers had already exited the business. What Intel hadn't done was to shut down the flow of research funding into memory (which was still eating... View Details