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- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
passions thus can erect their own smoke screens. When in their grip, we get to choose between deception and self-deception. Either you truly believe that you are firing your friend for the good of the firm, or—if not—you might realize...
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by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
management of chronic conditions. Here, many employers in the United States and Europe have made impressive starts. Some companies cover the costs of smoking cessation and weight loss programs, or reward participation in health and risk...
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- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one...
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- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
buckle up, and general rule-breaking, like smoking in the bathroom. Popular explanations for bad behavior include crowded conditions, long delays, and shrinking seats. The researchers also evaluated other possible rage-inducing factors,...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
respondent. "Television is evil and is about where smoking was in the 1950s - we know it's not healthy, but we don't yet understand its true downside," opined another. "Television simultaneously brought the world into our living rooms and...
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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
Robertson working for you as your key software developer, drug researcher, or designer, he would be a handful, to say the least. There are key people in these kinds of businesses, and they are what they are. One of the managing partners of the design firm told me how...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
extent. After all, in 1999, Congress wasn't pleased to see $200 million of its money go up in smoke (or up in space—there is no smoke in a vacuum). Politically, the next missions had to succeed. Another...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
cooking takes place in an open fire in an enclosed hut. Sometimes the smoke is used to cure foodstuff that hangs at the top part of the hut. So you can't effectively resolve issues until you see them in context. But at same time, that may...
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Michael R. Bloomberg
economy, a record-low crime rate and a healthier New York. His smoking ban in public places was a landmark decision. Some believe his legacy will last for generations to come. “There are many things we have achieved that I am proud of,”...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
high-profile California. To the consternation of the trial bar, his advocacy group placed three initiatives (ultimately unsuccessful) on the state's March 1996 ballot. On the smoking front, Tobias, a Slavic languages and literatures major...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
product that carried a lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance that teens would easily develop nicotine addictions from smoking the fruit-flavored products....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Dan Bejar Tom DeLong’s love affair with teaching began at Hosford Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, with instructors like Mr. Walter Stickel and Mr. Ray Snively: “They always wore nice suits and white shirts, and they...
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Hailed as "extraordinary" (DownBeat) and "most enchanting" (NPR), Ganavya's highly anticipated debut album, Aikyam: Onnu was described on The New York Times as “majestic debut album . . . a thick ephemera, like smoke as dark as ink, just...
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- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
Experts have cited several factors that may make men more vulnerable to severe illness, including biological differences, higher smoking rates, and a greater reluctance to seek health care. This new study points to another reason men may...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
to get away from that and to be able to make much smarter decisions. Morrell: But these are two different forces. You have a nice analogy where you say FOMO is kind of like a glass of wine, but FOBO's kind of like smoking a cigarette,...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, a new startup whose goal was to reinvent unloved home devices, such as thermostats and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
they have some earthiness. We have a Dijon aioli and then we have a smoked cheddar cheese, it’s from Grafton, which is a really wonderful cheese provider in Southern Vermont. And then we have the Brussels sprouts, which we slice them in...
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Agriculture
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
confident he could arrange another round of private financing, which should suffice to carry the company through to profitability in 2002. New market opportunities were arising, such as providing dry cleaning through grocery-store chains and contracting with insurers...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
those days, all the good guys did well. They usually smoked a cigarette at the end and died, but they always won, and so there was this thing and at five o'clock in the afternoon, there were these serials, Jack Armstrong, Terry and the...
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- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
Bai people, their culture and architecture. Some of the boys would also return with big bags of marijuana to dry out in the dorm room. The weed didn't have much potency, I was told, but they smoked it all the same. What a wacky way to see...
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