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- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
has is already underway (the typical American response). In either case, though, policies are demanded and policymakers need to think about how best to balance the demands of society View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. Aid has no measurable impact on prices or economic growth, though it does affect most components of the national income accounts. We find that much... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
On October 3, 2005, Washington Mutual acquired Providian Financial Corporation, the ninth-largest credit card issuer in the U.S., for $6.5 billion. At the time, Providian had approximately 10 million customer relationships and a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
November 2006, Kapur faced a number of issues, including how to expand without capital, how to deal with imitation, and how to balance Keggfarm's for-profit and social values.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
It was in the late 1990s that the finger pointing began between Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier and its Brazilian competitor, Embraer. Each company alleged that the other was receiving government support that provided an unfair... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
How should he handle other issues like the architectural designs, the construction process, and the legal process? How should he balance all the competing demands on his time? This case serves as an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
in choosing between a traditional mode (where the firm takes control of service provision) and a platform mode (where professionals retain control over service provision). The choice of mode is determined by the need to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
the need for energy security, to address growing concerns about a crisis in the balance of payments, and as a potentially important source of domestic jobs. Our premise in this note is that a key aspect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
(whether Wellfleet should accept it or not). At the same time, students will learn that gray-area risk decisions and, in particular, risk-adjusted performance measurement can rarely be automated. Risk governance requires executives to strike a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
efficiency and long-term adaptability are inherently incompatible. Organization theorists have conceptualized Abernathy's dilemma as the challenge of balancing exploitation and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
ordinary citizens have the ability to shift the balance of power in positive ways that can encourage innovative ideas to be developed into practical goods and services. "Washington, DC does not have a... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of liquidity provision is undertaken more aggressively: i) in periods when the ratio of government debt to total debt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
participate or withdraw. Students need to use judgment with respect to estimates of key variables including stabilized income, construction cost, and minimum expectations for return on investment in order to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
banks to roll over their short-term debt. We document that there was a simultaneous run by borrowers who drew down their credit lines, leading to a spike in commercial and industrial loans reported on bank View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
the severity of pension plan underfunding, state budget deficits, and the use of high discount rates. Further we find opposing states are subject to more stringent balanced budget requirements View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk management tools of derivatives technologies can improve both corporate decision making View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace