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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide....
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
to signals the CEO and the firm's literature send about company mission and values. Focus on getting a quality boss over a good job title. Don't be afraid to take seemingly circuitous career paths once inside the organization. Have...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
livelihood generation. But the people who were nominated by their community as high-growth entrepreneurs had a 25 percent monthly return on investment, and the people who weren’t nominated averaged no return at all. That was our first View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
G. Tsimerinov, (PLDA 16, 2017) (right) and Anu Dhir (GMP 2018) (middle) “Club members enjoyed hearing about the principal-agent problem, cash flow measures signaling value, and investor capitalism,” says Boris Tsimerinov (PLDA 16, 2017),...
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Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
cheapest and most effective form of marketing, but it’s also the best signal that you actually have a good product that people want. Don’t know what your net promoter score is yet? I promise you it’s high if your customers are finding you...
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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
wear and tear. We can help in areas like traffic-signal timing, congestion-based pricing on toll roads, and ramp congestion.” For example, based on analytics supplied by INRIX, Los Angeles reprogrammed traffic signals throughout the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
thinks, “God, don’t let there be more.” That day’s events signaled for Cohen, the Undersecretary of State for Management, and for other State Department employees, that the world had changed. The two embassy attacks killed more than 220...
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- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
work on signaling and persuasion can help enact urgently needed change.” —Laura Huang, MBA Class of 1954 Associate Professor of Business Administration and author of Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, forthcoming in January MUST READ...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
single-handedly helped lessen the severity of a national recession. Soon after his appointment as P&G's CEO in June 2000, A.G. Lafley publicly acknowledged that the company had forced too many changes too quickly, thus signaling to the...
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Desmond Wong
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
though he didn’t realize it at the time, leading those services would signal the beginning of a shift in his career path. The banker and Naval officer would ultimately become an ordained Episcopal priest. On his second tour of duty,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
is a mistake. The issue is, to paraphrase HBS professor Michael Porter, what’s our strategy? We have to have a strategy as a nation, but not just any strategy. In 2007, 40 percent of the profits of American public corporations came from financial-service institutions....
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. With this graceful, authoritative biography, McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, has all but ensured that a seminal but relatively uncelebrated twentieth-century visionary will finally get his due. The...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain...
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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
number one objective is not to mess up a good thing, so we will definitely remain a not-for-profit, because it generates so much goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
goodwill and signals to people that we are genuine about what we’re trying to do. We are contemplating a capital campaign that will give the academy the staying power and the ability to have a longer-term vision. One concern is finding a...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
at IBM? What can be done to maximize your group's productivity? What should IBM be doing to maximize the pursuit of business opportunities, based on the purchasing decisions of the customers you deal with? What should IBM be doing to help in the community? A DNG will...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage
be seen as people who are creating value in society.” The words “in the world” signal the vast opportunities for business globally “as an engine of prosperity,” said Nohria. “We have to open up the imagination of our students to recognize...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
been widely interpreted as a way to signal China’s stance on safety issues in the wake of the melamine contamination and other lapses, such as the deaths in 2004 of thirteen babies in rural Anhui Province from malnutrition after being fed...
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