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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
environment, the entrepreneurs were often unable to capture sufficient profits to sustain businesses. Recycled-goods markets were volatile. There was also a tension between the constant waste stream on the collection side and a seasonal/cyclical View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
that investors were increasingly supporting late stage research with higher probabilities of success, while funding for riskier early stage research was drying up. Should FasterCures raise money and direct it toward early stage...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
KindredHarvard Business School Case 511-015 For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
investors that his new venture could warrant sustainable growth and profitable returns. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808164 An Introduction to Consumer Credit Harvard Business School Note...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2
California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
500 index in the same year. We investigate the underlying drivers of these high returns and show that performance is related to the size of endowment, the quality of the student body, and the use of alternative investments. We caution ordinary View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
demand for land for urban development? How could it ensure the sustainability of local government finances? Was the growing number of land protests the harbinger of major changes in China's political institutions? How would the challenges...
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Sean Silverthorne