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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
context of this crisis underscores a big limitation of our current system of health insurance, which is based on covering a predictable set of needs for surgical procedures, office visits, and hospitalizations across a given population....
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Book Group Coping with cancer is hard. It’s an emotional ordeal as much as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because of inflated valuations. It could...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
products—and more likely to indulge in treats. Why? “You did something good for the environment,” Karmarkar says, “so you can have a cookie.” It was easy to believe Bill Gates in 2012 when he predicted that Sal Khan’s (MBA 2003) 2006...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
predicts that Dell’s innovation-driven comeback will be one for the ages and that more than half of Dell’s profits will soon come from product lines it didn't have five years ago. Faculty Books The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy you credibility—and of course, get the job done. What classical economic...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
desires, it doesn't have needs. It's basically taking in sensory data and trying to make a model of the world and make predictions and understand the world around it. That's the part of the AI thing that...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is staggering: The United Nations View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
increasingly difficult to “plan” one’s way to success. So what is the solution? Emulate successful entrepreneurs. In this book, based on extensive research and interviews, Baker Foundation Professor Schlesinger and his coauthors show how to apply the simple View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
other, similar programs, like the Barclays Accelerator and Startupbootcamp FinTech New York. The model has an annual cycle, beginning with a selection panel (made up of leading financial institutions) that chooses a small cohort of...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
insights for Cunningham to utilize. Recent partnerships with Applied Predictive Technologies have allowed McDonald’s to speed up its analytics, helping it make menu decisions more quickly. “It’s great to be able to just test and learn,”...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data is precisely that it will lead...
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- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
said, listen, I’ve got way too many projects on my plate but I like you both. I’ll make room for you, but the deliverable is you have to enter the business plan competition. And I’ll make a prediction right now that you guys are you guys...
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