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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
rather this erroneously imputed utility that lingers in memory. Here we review the roles of these streams of utility in shaping preferences, and discuss how neuroimaging offers unique possibilities for disentangling their independent...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
parts of Stryker Corporation's systems and procedures for approving and authorizing capital spending of many different types, including buildings, machinery, and working capital for existing businesses, as well as transactions with third...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s. It also manufactures and distributes ice cream in partnership with other companies, including Starbucks. Historically, these partnerships have paid off, producing about a third of Dreyer’s revenue. As the...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
financial independence and control.” The response to iTrust’s financial planning seminars for women has been “overwhelming” and bodes well for the future “because women are more open to and are more likely to adopt a financial planning...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
together some of the time to feel connected and to generate new ideas and solutions. The question going forward is not whether remote work will continue, but rather, when does remote work make sense? Conceptually, it’s simple. Working from home works best for...
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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
And this is not because they don’t care about quality. In fact, consumers put a lot of weight on online reviews when hiring service professionals. Our independent consumer survey offers some insights into why consumers may not care about...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
maybe in some ways the Cold War. Maybe in some ways the “global war on terror." Those punctuated very significant periods of fiscal reorganization. That's the second piece to understanding history. Then the third piece is to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
investors to collect, analyze, and verify on their own, broadly. Having this type of standardized information freely available to all investors is invaluable for fixed income markets. Q: As you note, there are three parties involved in...
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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC would designate a knowledgeable...
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- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
She was introduced by Mark Tatum (MBA 1998), Deputy Commissioner and COO of the National Basketball Association. For only the third time in its history, the club gave out the Lifetime Achievement Award, this time to Mitt Romney, current...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
to grow this advertising model in ways that have exceeded anyone's expectation. And just think about it, there are 7.5 billion people on the planet and a third of them [have used]on Facebook? I mean, wow, this is crazy. Kenny: What were...
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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
"cross-disciplinary" offering for independent practices difficult. Moreover, doing so would potentially extend McKesson into the clinical health services (and potentially risk-sharing) business, the strategic merits of which can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
But the interesting thing about the model, if you compare your happiness with the person you're closest with, is that a middle third for us is actually one of us is happy and one of us isn't. And in those moments, which is a very large...
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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
amount of attention. But my data says that about 65% of the country at the moment is pretty unhappy with Trump. And yet is also just disappointed in the Democratic Party, which they feel is old faces with old ideas. The interesting thing is, though, View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste-tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
and outreach across the Society's various departments, transition NGS from its many disparate and independent direct mail efforts to a more integrated and strategic e-commerce strategy, and leverage the NGS relationship with its...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
analysis," Bhide smiles. Another is what he calls "smart arrogance" - "the confidence to believe in your ideas combined with the sense to bail out quickly if new information points in that direction." Yet a third characteristic of a...
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