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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
short-term spike. What makes for good online learning? Patrick Mullane: First, you need to start with a pedagogy. What’s your way of teaching? It’s your teaching soul and you need to stay true to that, whether in a classroom or online. At...
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Jen Mele
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
company takes in the face of a short-term decline in revenues,” Sucher notes. Business owners who take a different tack—such as Malden Mills CEO Aaron Feuerstein, who chose to continue paying his employees while the company rebuilt after...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
their three college-aged children. “Everything was going along just great,” Sontag recalls. “Then came the evening of June 24, 1994, and our entire earth came apart.” That night, Susan had a stroke that left her with short-term memory...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes,...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
emergency short-term placement for troubled teens in McHenry County. Before we were licensed, the only options the county had for teens who could not go home were sending them to jail or a hospital. Over seven years, we took in more than...
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- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
business in America’s education system. Among its findings: Business is involved in 95 percent of school districts, but largely through “checkbook philanthropy” supporting short-term efforts. Most superintendents would welcome deeper...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
connect the short-term perspective with intermediate and long-range goals. Chris was a master in the classroom, and his Business Policy course was fantastic." Belkin clearly remembers the late marketing professor Steven Star asking him to...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
been rising for everyone, we might feel differently about executive compensation, but in fact the gap between top and bottom has grown dramatically. Paul Healy: Short-Term Pressures The freedoms that we’ ve been given as investors in the...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
prevail," and urged U.S. policymakers to think beyond short-term solutions — such as cutting interest rates and letting companies buy back their own stocks — to more lasting measures — such as creating new forms of employment and...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now accessories—for short-term rental...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
courtesy of James Allworth “The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results. It makes no sense to let such finance-oriented, short-term pressures seep into the economy’s...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
Research Fellowships and short-term immersion experiences, as well the resources of nine Global Research Centers in key geographic areas (see map below). The centers facilitate the development of research and case studies while...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
caused by the tendency to focus on quarterly earnings growth and the necessity to appeal to shareholders who are not long-term investors. These two factors have, in many cases, spurred short-term decision making and therefore long-term...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
orientation may allow important innovations to languish, leaving a void that more entrepreneurial companies in the same field may successfully fill. While keeping close to customers may be critical for short-term success, Christensen...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
think more carefully about how they manage and organize themselves. Palepu: Paul, you spoke about the breakdown of checks and balances in the system generally. Can you elaborate? Healy: One thing that strikes me is the enormous pressure for View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
traditional banks to one where non-bank financial intermediaries played a much more important role,” he says. These less regulated intermediaries, which included money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks, relied heavily on View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
we think peak production is likely to occur in 2016 or 2017—possibly sooner if oil prices stay low—and then trail off dramatically. And that understanding is so important because you’d behave differently depending on whether or not you believed it was a View Details