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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Dora Stern Abstract—This study sheds new light on first- and early-mover advantages. Research on this classic topic often assumes that each firm participates in the entirety of the innovation process and that all firms aim to monetize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives and monopoly distortions in light of recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
that could also benefit from formal analysis is that of incentives to contribute to OSS. While most research on this issue has been sociological in nature, the economic approach may shed light on why supposedly rational individuals are... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
the highest echelons of power. A Place of Refuge: Book Four of First Light By Linda Cardillo (MBA 1978) Bellastoria Press In 1971, a near-fatal automobile accident throws Izzy Monroe’s life into upheaval after a traumatic brain injury... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
extremes. Wineries of the Sierra Foothills: Risk-Takers & Rule-Breakers by Barbara Keck (MBA 1976) (Range of Light Media Group) The Sierra foothills are the largest wine region in America, covering ten California counties that are best... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
productivity externalities in the host country generated by foreign multinational companies. We propose a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
breakfast, so the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting had been canceled, and Lhota was planning on catching up on some paperwork. He sat in the quiet of his first-floor office, whose tall, west-facing windows looked out on the morning's golden View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
more redistribution. One reason for that is the top bracket used to contain 0.1 percent of the taxpayers and now has 1 percent of the population. This creates resistance to increased top marginal rates. Finally, the usual guiding lights... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
than a decade ago, the U.S. shale revolution began transforming the nation's energy outlook. Technological advances in horizontal drilling and "fracking" facilitated access to substantial new reserves of natural gas and light... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
with the Yoga clinic’s foray into electronic medical records, the government has supported the company’s initiatives with grants—a way of looking to Mediva to light the path ahead. And bit by bit, it’s working. The family practice model... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
157,000 Cubans worked in the private sector; by last year, the number had jumped to more than 575,000—or about 12 percent of the workforce. The burgeoning non-state sector was put under klieg lights in March 2016, when President Obama... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
McKenna’s face, or at least the half of it that’s visible above her mask, lights up at the sight of it. It’s been a long journey to this point. She and her family, including husband Joe and two young sons, have just moved up from Atlanta,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
plants. The company offered these customers incentives to invest in energy-efficient lighting systems, replace old electric motors with more efficient variable-speed systems, and improve the efficiency of heating, ventilation, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
N-word hurled at me from a passing car,” and being stopped by police and treated terribly while driving to his grandmother’s funeral. “What I’ve learned in my own life of navigating these heavy, dark, suffocating conditions is that we must shine View Details
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includes live cases, simulations, and Ted-style talks; as such, preparation is light relative to case-study preparation and includes some background reading as well as optional readings for students who wish to pursue deeper interests in... View Details