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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
responsibilities of business for the well-being of society. University of Illinois professor Hiram T. Scovill noted that “the best way for schools of business to justify their existence in view of the apparent ills and evils in business...
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- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
diamonds in the future and making them into ambassadors of ill will. At a meeting scheduled for November 2015, the De Beers Executive Committee would have to decide whether to end the pilot program, extend it for another year to gather...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
in potential danger. One of our interviewees noted, “As CEOs in this crisis, we have no option but to become the wartime CEO, however ill equipped or prepared we are.” You can equip yourself better immediately. Here’s what your brain and...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my...
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- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
workers to attend when sick, including work overload, lack of backup, and understaffing. Some occupational cultures have the same effect, glorifying “toughing it out” as an indicator of work commitment. Finally, we can’t discount the fact that some people attend when...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
hard drinker and that didn't help his music. But number three is there's an underlying ... It's risky to diagnose someone from 125 years later, but some kind of depression or manic depression that he was subject to, some kind of underlying mental View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
and Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and his wife, Susan, an attorney, all of whom spoke about how personal events such as death and illness have affected their careers. "I was amazed at how candidly they...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been providing care to the terminally ill since its first location opened in 1996. Since then, the company had grown rapidly through...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
firm. But when her father fell ill in 1986, the Brownells decided to return to Detroit to help with the family enterprise founded by her great-grandfather. As things turned out, Brownell’s father recovered and was able to continue with...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
work), and sustainability of health (e.g., whether an illness reoccurs). In the model, survival is the obvious priority. But subsequent research shows that patients don't necessarily feel that way. Over the past several years, MD Anderson...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
long espoused a “doing well by doing good” philosophy going back to founding figure William Lever. In the late nineteenth century, Lever had built a business by making and selling household soap that he hoped would improve hygiene and reduce View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
J.R. Klein Oxford University Press In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization is increasingly under the microscope. The view that the reversal of globalization and a return to protectionism and isolation will cure the world’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
frustrated that they aren’t able to contribute more. Our chief of orthopedics is serving as a scribe in one of our respiratory illness clinics. We have radiology residents who were medical interns a year ago working again as medical...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
spirit-ual advances might overtake the forces of materialism. Throughout the 1930s, Bulletin articles dealt gamely with a dark side of business barely imaginable to most of the magazine's current readership - bank runs, depression, New Deal programs, and the...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Mountain: Marietta knows there is no silver bullet for jump-starting the region’s economy and curing the many ills brought on by the collapse of coal and an ongoing opioid epidemic. (Nearly one-third of Harlan County’s almost 28,000...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Q&A session is long and intense, despite the late hour. Shawn Anthony (HBS ’10), currently enrolled in the joint MD/MBA program with Harvard Medical School, asks how adverse selection and the higher costs associated with treating chronic View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
reconsidering the traditional model of global health delivery. Each year, the United States alone spends over $9 billion on health improvement worldwide, yet nearly 13 million people die from illnesses that are relatively easy to...
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