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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
to be unattractive. Women—attractive or not—were least likely to successfully persuade investors. The paper grudgingly acknowledges that this type of bias on the part of investors may “not necessarily represent irrational marketplace...
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April White
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
patient satisfaction, and problems with patient safety. Nearly all U.S. health care organizations have used similar evidence to justify their investments in safety and quality. Herein, we provide conservative formulas based on readily...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
on what you need to achieve as a company, you're toast." Daniel Gulati and Vivian Weng (both MBA '11) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a "community-curated marketplace for independent fashion" that circumvents the...
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- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
reasonable prices are in demand. One example: In health care, GE is producing a computerized tomography (CT) scan machine that is functional without a lot of bells and whistles. It was designed originally for the Chinese market where...
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by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
as an executive was either wrong, dated, or incomplete. In fact, during the pandemic, even though I’m the eternal optimist, I had to, at some point, slow down and say it out loud: “The world we live in is not working.” It’s not a secret. We have a View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
thinking about reskilling, upskilling, incumbent employees and keeping your existing incumbent staff fresh and state-of-the-art in light of all these changes?Hickey: If you think about our position in the health View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
water treatment, and health care. Over half of GE’s revenues came from abroad last year, reinforcing its standing as a truly global company. You’ve said, “I’m a real GE person.” What does that mean? I’ve spent my whole career here, in...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
"eyeballs") has become so competitive that attention can be regarded as a currency. The rising cost of this ingredient in the marketplace is causing marketers to waste money on costly attention sources or reduce their investment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative marketing, and strong branding. Sel-Plex, a proprietary Alltech product, had shown important health benefits for animals...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
do health care insurance or additive manufacturing. You know, how much more quickly they can move, how much more dedicated they are. I think those are things. And when I think back, like if I could have done...
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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
lower directors’ and officers’ insurance premiums for Canadian firms after the ruling. I then show that the information environment deteriorated for cross-listed firms after the ruling. The results are more pronounced for firms with low...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
individual and collective experiences to foster innovation rather than about setting direction and mobilizing people to follow. In this chapter, we show what it takes to insure that an organization is willing and able to innovate. We...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
who weren’t able to work for one reason or another related to the pandemic. We have 1,900 employees here at the company, and we have very much a bifurcated workforce, in the sense that 40 percent of our team are our retail folks. They’re in our branches, they’re in our...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
preference for a diverse candidate.” The marketplace for diverse talent for middle-manager positions and technical position is white hot and very, very competitive. What about growing your own? Your lower-wage workers are...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh,...
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Jill Huggett
Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive...
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