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Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850
(2016-01-06)Diversified business groups are well-known phenomenon in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often explained by the prevalence of institutional voids or the nature of government-business relations. It ... -
Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence
(2017-09-08)This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the gap in incomes between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing ... -
The Business Media and the New Economy
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2001-12)The evidence presented in this paper will show that the mythology of the new economy reached unusual heights, even by modern standards. The media correctly and often insightfully reported on a variety of important changes ... -
Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart’s Sources of Advantage
(2014-10-24)We develop an analytical framework on the basis of the economics of business performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is ... -
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to ... -
Business Models – Nature and Benefits
(2015-05-20)This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this ... -
The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800
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The business of genomic testing: a survey of early adopters
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014)Purpose: The practice of “genomic” (or “personalized”) medicine requires the availability of appropriate diagnostic testing. Our study objective was to identify the reasons for health systems to bring next-generation ... -
The Business of Getting “The Get”: Nailing an Exclusive Interview in Prime Time
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-04)In “The Business of Getting ‘The Get’,” TV news veteran Connie Chung has given us a dramatic— and powerfully informative—insider’s account of a driving, indeed sometimes defining, force in modern television news: the ... -
Business Orders under Disordered Bureaucracies: Firms, Associations and the Post-Communist State
(2013-02-06)The dissertation analyzes the behavior of post-communist firms and business associations, and explores how business interests and organization are affected by the types of states that firms confront. Focusing on the ... -
The Business School Library and its setting
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Business, Water, and the Global City: Germany, Europe, and China, 1820-1950
(2013-10-18)The dissertation examines the evolving role of Germans under the auspices of European imperialism in modern China's hydraulic management and economic globalization. In the early nineteenth-century, Germans were on the ... -
Busted by the Ad Police: Journalists' Coverage of Political Campaign Ads in the 1992 Presidential Campaign
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1995-07)Adwatch attempts both to refute any false claims made by a candidate and to deconstruct an advertisement’s peripheral cues. This is an attempt to encourage voters to evaluate the substance of a persuasive message and reduce ... -
Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
(Open Society Foundations, 2011)This report examines the current efforts in Washington, D.C., to amend the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a law that forbids U.S.-based companies from bribing foreign officials. Busting Bribery: Sustaining the ... -
A busy month of action on the NIH open-access plan
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But Is It Operationally Feasible? Lessons Learned from Pursuing Public Value
(2022-10-28)In May 2019, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot was elected as Chicago’s 56th Mayor. From the very beginning of her tenure, Mayor Lightfoot’s administration prioritized building a more equitable city by expanding opportunity and ... -
But What Did You Actually Learn? Improving Inference for Non-Identifiable Deep Latent Variable Models
(2023-05-12)Deep probabilistic and Bayesian latent variable models allow one to infer variables that have previously not been observed in the data in order to accurately model the data density. They provide an intuitive and flexible ... -
"But you Promised": Methods to Improve Crowd Engagement In Non-Ground Truth Tasks
(2017)Crowdsourcing platforms were initially designed to recruit people to perform tasks that were simple cognitively but difficult for computers. One challenge in these settings is to identify an incentive mechanism for ... -
Butchering Moses
(Oxford University Press, 2007)