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Overcoming Start-Up Doubts in India
On February 1st I moved to Hyderabad, India to officially start GreenMango’s operations. That first day, a lot went wrong.
Financing Business in Tajikistan
In March, Lukas Bauer ’09 and I worked with the First MicroFinanceBank of Tajikistan to assess the viability of providing commercial loans to small and medium enterprises.
When Life Hands You Lemons, Create a Classroom Market Experiment
During a classroom simulation, students were able to witness the failure of a market due to asymmetric information between sellers and buyers.
Economics for Everyone
For better or worse, to grab people’s attention, you need more than interesting economics — it helps to have some drug smugglers, mafia characters, warlords or Sex and the City thrown in.
The Five Most Important Things About Growth in India
The reason India and China went from being peripheral players in the world market in 1980 to the powerful forces they are today didn’t have to do with changes in the global market. It had to do with local changes.
What's in a Face? Could Be Votes
The answer to the question of who will win the election may lie partly in whether voters are looking for honesty or competence. And one clue to how candidates are perceived is the shape of their face.
The Costs of Climate Change
Should the U.S. join the Kyoto Protocol, or at least play a positive role in the search for a successor? Or is this too costly, or otherwise “fatally flawed,” as our president has suggested?
What is Fair? Depends on Your Professor
It’s a sobering message for teachers such as myself: students learn much more than the facts from us.
Risk Management: Who's Listening?
After conducting a survey of very large corporations around the world, I discovered that a standard of best practices for employing risk management within a governance structure does not yet exist.