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Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management, Organizational Behavior Robert Simons Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks Finance John...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
business economics from Harvard. Fung is one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen, serving as chairman of Prudential Asia, the Asian investment management subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, as well as chairman...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
to invest in social service provision. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212055-PDF-ENG China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor Shawn Cole and Lilei XuHarvard Business School Case 212-030 China View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Universal. So I was successful. And yet, Bill, I found emptiness. There was no meaning. There was no joy. So call this my midlife crisis. And this taught me that power, fame, glory, money, these were not good drivers. So that led me to step back and take a look at my...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy—GE-financed planes powered by GE-manufactured engines had just destroyed real estate that was insured...
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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace. Government—not business—is...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 24 May 2011
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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
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case:
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
group?Fuller: We did about 125 face-to-face interviews across the three geographies we looked at, just to give ourselves a better sense of the life of these people and how they viewed it to help structure our questionnaire. Then we went...
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- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
since both types of acquirer (and the target) can access misvalued debt markets. However, moral hazard and insurance effect differences between types of buyers interact with potential debt misvaluation debt, leading to a dominance of...
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Carmen Nobel
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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
Shield of Tennessee. Tell us how you find yourself in that position in life and a little bit about your operations in the “Volunteer State.”Hickey: We’re Tennessee’s largest health insurer. We are one of 32 independent Blue Cross plans...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
recently to active duty. Neil Smith (MBA '84), who lives in nearby Manhasset, wrote, "Unfortunately, it's towns like ours that have been hit very badly by this terrible and senseless act. From commuting professionals to the firefighters and police who make up the...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
of New York because we're afraid of Long Beach. Actual costs. Contingency costs. Disruption remediation costs. Laura Sen, CEO, BJ's Wholesale Club: [Watch Video] Watch Video Major concerns? Driver shortages. It's even more challenging because of tightening standards...
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