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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
The sci-fi future for cancer treatment has become a reality, with breakthrough therapies that can use a cancer patient’s genetic information to create personalized treatments or employ the body’s immune response to treat disease. But for too many patients, View Details
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
the incredible dysfunction. In 2018 we are exclusively focused on one of the most dysfunctional bodies in government: the US House of Representatives. “Longer term, we plan to support next-generation veterans running for state, local, and...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
foundation, the survey sought to gauge the impact of 17 specific macro- and microeconomic factors. Of greatest concern to alumni were dysfunction in America's political system, the complex tax code, a failing K-12 education system, an...
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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
avoid backsliding into dysfunctional routines—habitual patterns of negative behavior by individuals and groups that are triggered automatically and unconsciously by familiar circumstances or stimuli. Employees need help maintaining new...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
many times when you’re dealing with imperfects. People say don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. The flip side is, don’t let good be good enough. If you have dysfunction in a key area, you can’t afford to leave it there, no matter how...
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- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
document the dysfunctional role of the airlines in weakening airline security throughout the '90s and into the twenty-first century. We also show the dysfunctional role of the lead auditing firms in keeping...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
dysfunctional health care system into one in which value-based competition leads to better health and greater efficiency. They argue for fundamental changes in how we think about heath care and offer specific guidance to health care...
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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
who don’t agree with them to avoid being demonized themselves. Getty The task of a new leader is to shift the cycle from losers’ dysfunctions to the unified team that is able to win. It’s time for a turnaround! Divided constituencies must...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Europe - Global Activities 2021
is a result of decades of uncontrolled immigration, leading to deeply ingrained, dysfunctional structures,” says Tengberg, who is now a journalist in Lisbon, Portugal. “Outdated international treaties and a fearful political climate...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions by John Gillespie (MBA ’83) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) (Free Press) The authors expose the flaws in the dysfunctional corporate board system: directors who are...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
self-doubt; dysfunctional behaviors with blame and infighting; lack of information and less teamwork that results in poor problem-solving; and disciplines and practices that are eroded. These losing behaviors in turn cause the...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
and on and on—a coalition of associates that spanned the earth and in the end proved nearly as dysfunctional as the real United Nations often seems. Outsourcing woes cost the 787 an estimated three extra years of development, required...
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- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
stigmatization and dysfunctional finger-pointing being the result." Stress Or Mental Illness? A culture of 3 a.m. emails and competition in the conference rooms can contribute to workplace stress. A 2013 survey by the American Psychiatric...
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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
six years the bowls and athletic conferences went through three major reorganizations in the apparently dysfunctional system of matching teams. The upshot, in economist terms, is that the market has since become increasingly thick—larger...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
system generates such unequal access to opportunities for people, which leads to dysfunctions in the system and lack of meritocracy. I asked myself why this is happening and looked into the idea that we’re terrible at measuring the things...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
containment. Where did your thoughts on this story land, after researching, writing, and teaching the case? RA: Where I came out is that truth-space dysfunction in the United States—which also exists in many, many places outside the...
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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration restrictions for foreigners, and a...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
of higher education are in the process of slow-motion self-destruction. The University of California system, once the greatest system of public higher education in the world, has been weakened and made increasingly dysfunctional due to...
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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
(MBA 1967), and Herb Kaplan (MBA 1965) hope that energized reaction from the business community will turn into active engagement in fixing a decidedly broken electoral system. “Our political dysfunction is harming American...
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Margie Kelley
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
country that provides more medical research to the world than any other, can't Americans get health care right? Is it a problem of too much money chasing the problem? The wrong kinds of capacity? The wrong incentives? Too little or too much regulation? Too much pride...
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