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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that employs 1,150 workers worldwide and...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Reshaping Africa by Irene Yuan Sun (MBA 2016) HBR Press China is now Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
airlines also leveraged new economies of scale, thereby reducing costs and increasing the competitive pressure on air travel prices. As a result of the deterioration in their financial performance, RegionFly was recently acquired by a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
he went on a trip he’d find a love note in his pajamas,” says Olsen. Despite Doriot’s singular talents, he was far from perfect. ARD should have never been incorporated as a publicly traded company. Doriot never groomed a successor to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
requirements. We just kicked off a program recently with Anthem, as a healthcare provider, to begin offering healthcare skills programs. And then, in other markets, we have specific programs that provide trade skills and manufacturing...
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- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:...
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Anna Secino
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
framework for future research to explore and develop these arguments. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2231526 Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—This study tests...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
economy driven by short-term considerations rooted in financial accounting. We’ll talk about how cost cutting in recruiting and training has raised costs by driving up voluntary turnover and leading employers to rely increasingly on the...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
publicly funded. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Japan’s demographic time bomb is a bittersweet result of its robust recovery after World War II. Within two generations, the country catapulted from a state of ruin to the second-strongest economy...
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Health, Social Assistance
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
terms of how our economy and our universities and so forth operate. There were several things that happened that got this ball really rolling, and they all kind of have ways of feeding in upon themselves. One is that China and India...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
employers through their employer associations like State Chambers of Commerce, the U.S. Chamber, the Business Roundtable, even trade associations, to advocate for some of the policy changes that are needed to help improve not only...
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