by Working Knowledge editors - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And... View Details

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage.... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

foreseen that the insights and problem-solving strategies they would gain would soon help them deal with the profound challenges posed by the pandemic. “The timing of the Leading People course I took in October 2019 was particularly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

since 1955. We haven't budged. So, then I think about, look, we want it more than anything else, we don't got it yet, so what do we do? And then, we look at a lot of the emerging positive psychology research, in particular, there's a piece of View Details

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

roamed the streets. I’d put on my Irish soccer jersey, tell some jokes, flash a letter from the oil ministry, and hope for the best. They’d let us pass. Today, life is improving. Infrastructure is slowly being repaired. Travel and work... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

the field about customer preferences for new products. Second, they learned how to function as a team to bring out the best in everyone (something they practiced in FIELD 1). Third, they learned a bit of humility by discovering that ideas... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

hold across the country. Seeing the win-win of reduced costs and improved care, the government recognized it as a specialty in 2015 and vowed to support the momentum with further training. And the community-based home health care model piloted View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked

Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially hit factory reset on their entire network. The phones were... View Details

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