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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
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
- 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
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
structure, to do this yet. Pioneering this customized therapeutic is where we’re at now. But the vision is to have a system in place, a funding mechanism—either a venture funding mechanism or in the future, more ideally, a payer mechanism, an View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
At GE, I wish I’d sold our insurance business the day I got here. On the personal side, I wish I’d had the chance to work and live with my wife and daughter outside the United States. What is most often forgotten in the everyday busyness...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
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
they’re in our insurance offices, they’re staffing other critical areas. They’ve been onsite and working throughout the pandemic and have really enabled us to keep our doors open and to continue to service our customers and communities....
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- 08 May 2012
- First Look
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 - Forum for Growth & Innovation
van Bever: That is terrific. I'm so glad that you remember that story of Clay's that he tells. The punchline for him and for our students is that management is a noble profession because you have the opportunity to touch the lives of so many across so many difference...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth grade, his Mom a homemaker. But...
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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 Macomber Fall2024 Q1Q2...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
organizations like that. You run Blue Cross Blue 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....
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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