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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Appointed CEO of Seattle-based Virginia Mason in 2000, Kaplan steps into a low-morale environment of increasing competition from area hospitals and decreasing revenues. In 1998 and 1999, the medical center lost many millions of dollars,...
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- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
suggesting that “both sides”—one group that included neo-Nazis and the KKK and another group of counter-protesters—were to blame for the violence, injuries, and deaths on or near the University of Virginia campus last month. This prompted...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
a career as a professor. He started a Ph.D. program in medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Virginia before leaving to enlist in the U.S. Navy. After several years of running grocery and specialty stores at a U.S. base...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can...
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- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
filled with educational endeavors, most of which involve getting kids of all ages excited about STEM subjects and entrepreneurship. Earls has led an unlikely, if inspiring, life considering his roots. He grew up in the Virginia Tidewater...
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- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
sandwich? It didn't taste very good, to be honest. But after that, a few years later, my father-in-law sent me an entire leg of ham in the mail, and it's very good. I asked him, what sort of ham was that? He told me, it's Virginia ham....
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- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
important extreme features figure into the decisions other people make. “You see someone choose an option with an extreme feature and you think that must have been the most important feature underlying the choice,” says Barasz, who co-wrote the article with Tami Kim of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809142 Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-076 Virginia Mason Medical Center (VM) hired...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Reserve University, Duke University, Peking University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt Law School and Virginia Commonwealth University, who led the...
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- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
he says. “But that was not the case at all.” It certainly wasn’t the experience for many of the black business executives included in the book Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of View Details
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
Just Digital Future Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier Automating Inequality By: Virginia Eubanks 2018 Algorithms of Oppression By: Safiya Umoja Noble 2018 Race After Technology By: Ruha Benjamin 2019 In our Just Digital Future interview...
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- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
HBCU liberal arts institution in Alabama, told CNN that while the $1.4 billion and other aid for higher education earmarked by Congess and approved by the President was "fantastic," it was only a first step in putting the fire out. "Things still smolder," he said....
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- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
charges were later dropped; and a 2014 University of Virginia story of a group sexual assault on campus, although the veracity of the piece was later called into question, and the story retracted. One bright spot in the wake of campus...
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- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
no way to prove it. Did it make a difference that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe—four of the first five presidents—were slave-holding Virginia planters? Yes, it made a huge difference, because that was the world as they saw...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
disastrous effects of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Another class participant pointed to an example of high-value data use documented in the Data.gov case study: In Virginia where there were problems with a bidding process,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working life to something totally...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810096-PDF-ENG Supply Chain Partners: Virginia Mason and Owens & Minor (A) (Abridged) V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 110-063 Owens &...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
post-secondary education, yet only 51 percent of the state’s population has any post-secondary credential. Community colleges are essential in addressing this disparity. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, an educator at Northern Virginia...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
example, we just launched a four-year partnership with West Virginia University, making it the first D1 school to offer financial education coursework for every student-athlete. Our goal is to launch more of these across the country. “I...
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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
trusteeship that left unaddressed the matter of doing better. So, I had to tell the foundation head we were going to anyway. Footnote: 22 Dana Liebelson, “Where Did the Money Donated to Columbine, Aurora, and Virginia Tech Mass-Shooting...
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by Martha Lagace