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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
high-rise surface. On a Sunday afternoon in late November, Kim, 60, climbs the pathways crisscrossing Namsan, the 269-acre park rising high above Seoul. Soft yellow ginkgo leaves carpet the ground. A man, decked out in a white tracksuit...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
repeatedly due to high costs and low participation. While the diversion rate climbed to 60 and even 80 percent in cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, New York’s refused to budge. By the time Tisch took charge, DSNY...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
with a schedule and scope of future expenses, can equip the buyer with clearer expectations about a home’s total cost over time, Kennealey observes. “You may want to put down a big down payment, but if you know you have a new roof coming, then you might View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
crisscrossing Namsan, the 269-acre park rising high above Seoul. Soft yellow ginkgo leaves carpet the ground. A man, decked out in a white tracksuit and bucket hat, strolls by with an enormous Afghan hound. Kim has walked here with his...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
the point of the v, the elegantly cupped serifs of the i, the soft curve of the r: It was clear that, on this street, you would find a high-end shopping experience. “It instantly conveyed elegance to me,” he recalls. Chacko hasn’t always...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
just hope that things develop as well as everybody's projecting them to. Otherwise, the valuation adjustment could be quite harsh. Is there anything that you've missed out on because of the demands of your career? When you're fully...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand....
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
today as it did then,” says O’Connor. Thus, if interest rates continue to rise, as he expects, O’Connor sees the possibility of a substantial downward adjustment in pricing over the intermediate term....
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a respite from city life. Along the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
Illustration by Daniel Bejar The Chinese economy seems to have finally hit the brakes. Thanks to stalling real estate and export markets, this year China reported first and second quarter growth rates of 7 percent—its lowest numbers in...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
good to get short-term interest rates up to at least 2 or 3 percent? There seems to be too much cheap money flowing around now, and unused funds earn nothing at this point (in fact slightly negative, View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a mobile app] to customers to...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
for those whose adjustable rates have skyrocketed? These are small steps in the right direction, but they do not address the problems of those whose impaired credit is keeping them from refinancing or...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
launched in Japan in 2009, and last November we started shipping from the United States to over 90 different countries. MT: So your site translates into the local currency? AM: Yes. There are also duties, taxes, and a flat rate for...
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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
adjustment if you need to. Julia Issembert class of 2012. Be honest. Be a good partner. People like doing business with people that they like and respect. So I always act as such. Skip Vonckx, MBA, 1962. Never believe that the business...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
adjustments should she make to lead remotely, and what tweaks (if any) should be made to her Miami-based management team? The case details the numerous challenges Swan initially faced in launching Nickelodeon Latin America, from winning...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Arts, Entertainment;
National Security and International Affairs;
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Health, Social Assistance;
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services;
Information;
Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The leading countries in Africa now...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons