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- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
may just lead you to eat more bacon. (To add insult to injury, medical studies suggest that a high level of cortisol leads to an accumulation of abdominal fat.) CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King recently...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Alfred A. Checchi
Al Checchi's record of achievement - particularly his turnaround of Northwest Airlines - is usually attributed to his brilliance and financial acumen. Often overlooked is how family heritage and twists View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded...
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- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
business seemed to be the clear reason why. "Consider two vehicles of the same make, model, and usage, both tested in the same month in the same city. You'd hope the only thing that would sway whether...
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- Fast Answer
Patent terminology: Classification codes
are used by patent offices worldwide including USPTO, WIPO, and EPO, as well as commercial patent databases. Things to remember: CPC has the same general hierarchical structure as that of the IPC. CPC...
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- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
causing researchers to miss vital information outside of their fields that could lead to new breakthroughs? “We find that generalists end up doing things not only earlier, but end up having more impact than...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
IBM chairman Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA ’65) discussed the importance of strategy, execution, and culture when transforming an institution, as part of the MBA Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series in...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area of...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
once in a while to be in front of the right waves, and conserve energy—until it’s time. The key is to know when to paddle hard to set things in motion. Conversely, life is also about knowing when not to...
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- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
effective codes of business conduct. But technology isn't the only answer. Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity As companies adopt artificial intelligence to increase...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
book The Next Convergence, Spence focuses on what he calls tradable jobs (making things like cars that can be made somewhere else—largely manufacturing jobs) and nontradable jobs (like nurses and auto mechanics, the vast majority View Details
- Portrait Project
Milly Wang
tracking near-Earth asteroids. I always thought that I wanted to be remembered for discovering a habitable planet outside our solar system or furthering the understanding of dark energy. But as years passed, I’ve come down to earth. I...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
In a series of posts on LinkedIn, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, has written an extensive examination of modern...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
existence hinged on a highly unlikely partnership with NetJets Inc., the nation’s leading purveyor of fractional private-jet ownership. “Without them we didn’t have a business,” recalls Bill Allard (MBA ’89), Marquis’ president and CEO....
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Brandon Angelini
Weekends were for ambitious projects in my family. Someone would announce a plan for the day — it could be anything — and I remember the weekend that my mom decided we would make a picnic table. My parents are architects, well acquainted with building View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
everywhere really began to Think, the first thing they would do would be to take a sledge and open up the computers.” (The Scarlet Ruse, 1973) Father and Son “A defining feature of my father’s nature was a...
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Philippe Rival
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After six years of working as a civil engineer, the importance and value of adding management skills to an existing engineering and technical base became...
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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
jerk. Things got a lot more interesting, though, when people faced the choice between competent jerks and lovable fools. Ask managers about this choice—and we've asked many of them, both as part View Details
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by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo