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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Associates suggests that at least half of the 25 clean tech firms in its portfolio have hired lobbyists. This does not seem like the ideal way to boost entrepreneurial innovation. Q: Is there more research to be done in this area? A:...
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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just...
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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
We did so by presenting them with different parameters of the task, having them compare and contrast these different parameters, giving them full feedback on their history of choices and resulting outcomes, and allowing them to interact...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
been destined for mutual funds is not coming in because a portion of the undecided investor population is choosing instead to try trading stocks online." But for the most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
but I knew I wanted something different." At the Carlyle Group, says Mathias, "I've been able to create a portfolio of interesting business activities in a way that has allowed me to combine my personal and professional interests." Both...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by suggesting that multi-unit...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
in studying these complex social systems. I have made a deliberate choice to focus primarily on research that reflects firsthand experience with boards rather than on research that utilizes data derived from questionnaires and other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
differences in strategic orientation choices and their performance outcomes for American and Japanese entrepreneurial firms, focusing on founders' achievement motivation as a key personal disposition. Design/methodology/approach: A survey...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,...
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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University endowment's investment View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
recommendations, and feeds, to help members manage their experiences with their online friends. The two choices have very different value propositions and have very different competitive implications. Also describes the dynamics of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
no. 5 (May 2007): 760-776 Abstract Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
examines the many strategic choices Goldwind faced as it established its first major overseas subsidiary in Chicago: building a local team around a U.S. CEO, bridging cross-cultural differences among management, overcoming regulatory...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
or through partnerships with healthcare professionals or insurance companies. Their choices are important because they will affect DayTwo's costs, pricing, positioning, distribution channels, marketing efforts, and product development....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and capital markets, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
is the CEO of one’s own life,” he adds. “Maybe I could have been a better executive, or a more accomplished mountain climber, or a better husband and father if I hadn’t tried to balance those three things. But it was my choice to try.”...
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Personal Services
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure of the sales force would solve...
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Carmen Nobel
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businesses to enter and exit, as well as the extent of vertical integration and geographic expansion of the firm. More generally, this requires developing a portfolio that is robust to changes in the external environment and has to...
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