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- 01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times more likely to die in the delivery room. “People theorize that 50 percent to 75 percent of...
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Jiao Zhang
celebrated Girls who were told they would never be good at math Girls who had as little significance as the rural towns they grew up in Girls who never thought they could see the world Girls who hated the way they looked Girls who should...
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JJ Singh
ballooning national debt and a financial system in disarray. *** I want to change attitudes and the way we imagine our future. I want to influence policy so that we invest in tomorrow. But most of all, I want to rebuild an America that...
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- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
duties by way of assigning moral agency to business enterprises, we would do better to provide an account of the purpose of the for-profit business enterprises that is not simply about the pursuit of profit. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate...
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Garry Emmons
- 24 Dec 2014
- News
Helping businesses understand consumers
Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) helped launch the digital marketing firm Communispace in 2000 to give clients a way to integrate the perspective of their consumers into everything they do. (Published December 2014)
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Faculty Books
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It by Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Princeton University Press) Max Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, and his coauthor examine the View Details
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Tracy Williams
behind me. My nightmare replayed itself as I struggled to keep him out and he forced his way in. But this time, I fought back and scared him away. These experiences made me into who I am today: a fighter. I will fight for what I believe...
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Marwan Chaar
not even the energy companies we blame the most. We as a society are responsible for our environmental impact. I hope to change the way people produce and consume energy, starting in the region of the world that is the most wasteful: the...
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Chris Kaleel
I will go all in. My dad taught my brother, sister, and me to play blackjack when I was 10. There was never a serious wager—we used plastic chips to place bets—but I figured out how to consistently finagle my way to accumulate a hefty...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables
but simply evolving. For many members of the Class of 1976, this debate is academic. For them, the term new economy is synonymous with particular classmates who, in the course of their careers, have helped shape the way today's world...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
shared their latest research on US competitiveness and issued calls to action urging alumni to get involved in helping solve the country’s or their communities’ competitiveness challenges. “Hundreds of alumni attended these events, and since then many have stepped up...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to firms' interactions with non-financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
in the United States, in the 1980s. They started exerting direct pressure on the boards to remove the management of under-performing companies. By the early 1990s, we saw a further rise in institutional investor power and their...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau....
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
end of World War II, and life under the Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza, the Communist Polish United Workers’ Party, had been, as Maj recalls now, “ugly,” but his family had not suffered as many others had. Still, he refused the SB’s...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal
isolation—don’t forget that people who sit together all day in an office without ever exchanging a word or a glance can also feel isolated from one another. Leaders can help convey the norm that isolation is a factor that the team will overcome together; this can go a...
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- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
also made me much more tolerant of other people's opinions. I learned that there are other ways to solve a problem than the way engineers think. That was life-changing." But problem solving, like drug...
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- 11 Dec 2014
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Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise awareness about important...
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