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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
can impede the progress of their creative teams. One of our strongest findings is that to be creative, people need to feel good about their work. Pride in accomplishment and positive feelings about oneself and one’s colleagues give a View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
pattern-recognition, numeric, mechanical, and abstract skills. Once chosen, the trainees were employed by HPE and then deployed to client sites. With 1 in 63 Australian school children on the Autism Spectrum, according to Autism Aspergers Advocacy Australia, half of...
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Jennifer Myers
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Providing the Care That Seniors Need
and raising a family, and becoming a caregiver to an aged parent. “Through that process I began to look at what was available in the marketplace for the aged who had cognitive disorders like dementia, but also the aged in general, and I...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
favored white males, hunted for clues to candidates’ soft skills over dinner or coffee, and hired people based on résumés that revealed little about job fit. Yet Polli knew that scientists possessed a battery of tests for accurately and objectively evaluating View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Considered one of Wall Street's most influential young executives, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA '93) has gained that stature by working hard at what she has always loved. “My father was an investment banker, and I think my interest in finance started before my View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
connections, confidence, and cognition that individuals acquire or cultivate by virtue of working at a company during a particular period of time. It’s organization-specific as well as time-specific. Do all organizations leave an imprint?...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and unambiguous research, he makes clear the devastating consequences of growing up poor: living in poverty, even temporarily, is detrimental to cognitive abilities, emotional control, and the overall health of children. The cost to...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
happened—catalytically—in the science of happiness. You’ve been deep in this topic for almost two decades. How have you seen the field evolve and change? It’s become a lot more cognitive and brain-scientific. Neuroscience is a relatively...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
right now, but you would claim that I would leave this and go back to my mother country in a minute the instant Fidel Castro, that SOB, dies. And so I think that there was a lot of cognitive dissonance about that. There were people who...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook
Assistant Professor Monica C. Higgins and Professor Nitin Nohria explores how language enables perfect strangers to initiate a process that may lead to business collaboration. In their 1996 working paper, "How Language Works: Interaction and View Details
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Judith Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again....
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
looked at the situation as a fantasized, rational actor would. This was a cognitive tour de force. It was made possible by Grove’s capacity to frame issues differently from the way others do. Grove said that even after this moment of...
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- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing...
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Deborah Blagg
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but scar tissue. Although she would continue to struggle with the...
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April White
- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
no career matches available because we hadn't built that side of the platform. So we learned interesting things about the general cognitive and emotional traits that we all have as human beings but not the career matching. And,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
changing the field of medicine. In the past several decades, the growing use of artificial intelligence in the health care sector has made it possible for computer systems and diagnostic machines to learn and problem solve, mimicking human View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary services and on and...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
ensure that the game continues to thrive. With research (some being financed by the NFL) and understanding still in their early stages, the issue of concussions in football has become a paramount concern, with recent findings suggesting that traumatic brain injuries...
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