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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
identity, a community of shared values, and trust-based relationships with employees, customers, community, and investors. Boards often do not ask the right questions about these things nor have the data to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
be a problem. But the good news is that space is a big place and there aren't a lot of things the size of this microphone floating around there." For effect, he spun the...
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- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
outcome information, and have the judges look at them and judge them on things like artistic merit, feasibility, furthering cultural dialogue, and some sense of commercial viability," Nanda says. There were...
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- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
are ill equipped to teach them. Attitudes are taught implicitly through cultural norms, not through explicit discussion. Very few academic schools (if any} make this distinction..." Mike Wyman opined, "I believe the only thing...
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by James Heskett
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them...
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- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
In light of the outset of the war on terrorism, how does this affect what has been called the war for talent? A book by the same name 1 has recently characterized this as an "endless journey" to...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities and calamities,...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
imagine it. On Election Day, Brand Trump will mean different things to different people but that doesn't matter if he gets their votes. Imagine you are looking at a box of Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes....
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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
“If you are more of a risk taker, all things being equal, you are going to be more likely to engage in misconduct,” Minor says. "If you are more of a risk taker, all View Details
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by Roberta Holland
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
percent for the market as a whole. New Capital Market Instruments The press and Wall Street are focused on the 24 countries which now have REITs and the 28 countries which are expected to have REITs over the next 18 months. But the new, new View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
specialization of capital, the domination by institutions instead of entrepreneurs, all these things have produced lower risks. If you have lower risks, you should not expect...
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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that friction in the market between what the price is and what it should be, Cohen and Malloy stress the importance of identifying a "catalyst" that will cause the market to catch up. "It's one View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
judging from per capita declines in both natural and unnatural deaths worldwide. While the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation remains with us, the 21st century challenges relate to such things as space...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
New economy companies may be moving at the speed of light, but they still need managers who can get the job done, according to career development experts who spoke at the African-American Student Union conference, "The Digital...
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by Carrie Levine
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
venture and how you behaved when things didn't go well." History points to the importance of people skills in successful ventures, agreed Sahlman. But what roles do operating experience and technical...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
success. You try to enshrine your success. You build up bureaucratic processes to make sure you do things the same way next time," he said, adding that bureaucracy is the enemy of small companies that...
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by Carrie Levine
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
things in the manner that is widely accepted and to adhering to industry norms and culture. What Legal Mistakes Should I Watch Out For In Starting A New Company? Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs The life View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
thing is that while each has its own independent identity and strategy, they all come together to make the Nobel Prizes happen. They all share allegiance to the core identity of what they all want to do:...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands View Details