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- 07 Sep 2021
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Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
know those squares meant to helpfully highlight correlation? They show that data points in the lower left box are typically at the opposite end of a recognizable pattern from those in the upper right box. Well, Frances lives for the...
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- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
the heart of the company is very much tied to the economy. And so with the amount of debt we had, we had no margin. So we had to file for bankruptcy in late 1990. My hope was to preserve the company and family control. And what I ended up doing was leading to the exact...
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- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually had the very View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart
losing the opposite point of view that creates the spark I mentioned earlier. Tell me about one of your more unlikely matchmaking successes. One of my clients, an HBS alum from New York, was the ultimate package: good-looking, smart,...
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- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible and affordable to as many people who have...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season
one on the opposite side of his office, which offers a panoramic view of ... an enormous, muddy hole. Site of the former Busch Stadium, demolished in November 2005, the six-block area in downtown St. Louis will be home to Ballpark...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
she adds, come from these kinds of opposite pairings: "That also describes me and my husband." Building a whole new culture, forging this new company—that's an ongoing, long-term project. This year, she's also operating with a few more...
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- 30 May 2024
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How to Have Effective Conversations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of gender bias”—that is, the View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between...
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- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
her phone all the time. And you know, I don't want to be like that." And kids always do the opposite of their parents, right? And so I think that this is a chance to really tap into that rebellion, as it were, as a way to actually...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Again and Again
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
dead.” It might be tempting to believe that the long run is simply a series of short runs, but the reality is that immediate pressures can overwhelm the long-run view, and even cause us to take actions that are the opposite of what a...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2012
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High Honors
health and education in the localities where the company operates. While critics feared that her cooperative, compassionate approach would hurt the 95-year-old company’s bottom line, just the opposite has been the case. A New Jersey...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
right-wing cant: Liberals are humorless drones. Truth be told, Navasky is more mensch than menace, an old-school crusader for social and economic justice who can’t bring himself to say anything mean about anybody. That includes those benighted souls at the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
everywhere I could to help craft an action plan, identify job openings that were occurring, create new ideas to make this initiative known, and outwit or overcome opposition to the appointment of more women. Those alliances were crucial...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
Storrs Prescription: Build a Killer App Silicon Valley is known for being open to innovation, risk, and failure. At the opposite end of the table sits health care, with its strong emphasis on hierarchy, training, and experience—no...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
creative guy. Since high school, he’s paid homage to both — becoming an engineer who also loves to act in community theater. Still, the question loomed: Could his seemingly opposite sides be united in a common career goal? As a youngster...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men
far in the opposite direction and lost something in our inability to give students more interim feedback and written tests. With that said, I think the School has contributed substantially to business as a discipline that succumbs to...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2018
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Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
to be happy on a daily basis. But the way that we achieve happiness, the way that we find the precondition of meaningfulness that let's us be happy is that we in some ways do the opposite of this. We look for the opportunities when we...
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