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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
different message. As he writes: “Even when adaptation appears to be the only viable option, we should do more than blindly accept—and eagerly adapt to—change. We should seek to understand why the change has been forced on us, how we might exert greater View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
security, but politically, it would have been a very unpopular decision. The airlines, which had contributed to the Clinton-Gore campaign, didn’t want it, it would have cost taxpayers $3 billion, and we all would have had to wait in much...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
Reforms Set the Stage for Growth When Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978, he set China on a new course by making economic growth a top priority, even if that meant relinquishing state control over markets. It was the realpolitik thing to...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
declined. As the twenty-first century unfolded, many families found themselves caught between the rock of expanded consumption and the hard place of seemingly static incomes. And to make matters thornier, the costs of some of the most...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields
Concluding a successful tenure at Mazda, Mark Fields was appointed on April 19 to head the Premier group, a London-based unit of Ford Motor Company, which controls Mazda. The Premier group, a $23 billion company, includes brands such as...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
growth — exceeding 9 percent for the past three years — China sends a clear message to the world of progress and power. The country’s singular focus on economic development has been shaped by top-down government control that extends into...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
trajectory of overdose deaths from prescription drugs and heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US death rate from opioid overdose has increased over 400 percent since 1999; the picture is even grimmer...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
Street’s outsize pay packages “shameful,” especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is “exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis — a...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
dog-sized doses,” says Minard. Going beyond supplements, SmartPak Canine introduced high-quality, premeasured dog food, inspired by Tally, Minard’s lovable but extremely overweight (94-pound) Lab. Including high-protein dry food in one of the SmartPak compartments...
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- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
but rather as a portfolio of flexible and interlinked roles and relationships." While the outmoded top-down management structure of corporate divisions gave managers tight control and enabled their companies to grow, Bartlett says, "it...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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On Credit
New York office or local branches. In 1849, Tappan sold the agency to an associate, Benjamin Douglass, who in 1859 ceded control of the firm to his brother-in-law, Robert Graham Dun. That same year, coded reference books with condensed...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
that I don’t have complete control of. The notion that there would be very intelligent people doing very complicated things six and a half days a week, and I would come in on a periodic basis and tell them how to do it better, I don’t...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
or worked in 20 countries, including Colombia, Eritrea, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, and Romania, successfully addressing difficult issues involving corruption, cost overruns, and inefficiency. Every situation had a shared trait: No one had...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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In Review
to problem-solve together, we struck this delicate balance and reopened the campus in the fall. Since then, we have used the metaphor of a dimmer switch as our guide—allowing for more on-campus activities, including hybrid classes, when the virus is under View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
aim to make rigorous impact-measurement approaches, like randomized controlled trials, practical and accessible to practitioners. In India, we are helping the State of Bihar improve a $200 million nutrition program. In Zambia, we are...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
but he's not interested in the bulls and bears. Instead, his focus is on helping people in emerging markets pay their bills—which can often require hailing a taxi, heading out to a payment point, standing in line, and using cash to settle up. "There is a lot of time...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
definition of convenience—delivery, mobile ordering, curbside pickup. Whatever way its customers wanted to get their food, McDonald’s should offer it. “People want to control their own experience,” says Kempczinski. These new digital...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to...
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