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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this difference arises from the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
the Soviets had entered Bucharest, Romania, which had allied itself with Germany in 1940. But each day of the offensive cost countless lives. It wasn’t enough to win the war; the Allies needed to win it now. That was the real mission—code...
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- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
external information environment helps mitigate agency problems that arise when firms expand their operations across borders. This paper contributes to the literature by showing that the external information environment helps MNCs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
(Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative offering. This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the structure and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be modularized (at the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
start building a sound, economic future is a great tribute to what you all do and what other not-for-profits and social agencies do to help people—not at the scale we wish, but nonetheless, it’s a beacon as to what we need to be doing...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
more mobility, too. We’re definitely entering a world where the workforce has a lot more power and agency than it ever did before. And companies are getting smarter about giving people more opportunities. The companies that don’t adapt to...
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destroy human society. Others have said that it could create a global utopia by solving intractable problems like climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are normally...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
inspect every mine in this country, all 13,000 of them, four times a year by law. And, actually, after the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, the largest enforcement agency in the federal government is the...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
costs and benefits of work-life choices, and protect you from much grief. Don’t confuse urgency with importance. A ringing phone seems urgent, but the call may be totally unimportant. How do I choose what to do when facing scores of time...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
pour Entrepreneurs by Fabrice Cavarretta (MBA 1996) Plon Yes, France is a paradise for entrepreneurs, Cavarretta writes. The country has one of the best opportunity ecosystems in the world and the drawbacks—for instance, the cost of labor...
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