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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant...
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- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
to move to Havana. The decision came in January 2017, when Gordon was working in a sales position at Castlight, a Bay Area B2B health care technology company. The couple had met while Gordon was working for the Clinton Foundation in...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
"money management" and the "investment systems platform" businesses. Students analyze why BlackRock decided to unbundle its Aladdin investment platform and if the firm should consider expanding the platform in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA...
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- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
knowledge of a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules. An...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
as a whole, increased social welfare costs, health care costs, dealing with closures of hospitals, schools, et cetera. How do we position every region of Virginia to at least grow a little bit, right? In general, the metros and the big...
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- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
which banks can address federal CRA concerns, and thereby promote bank acquisitions in their jurisdictions. Thus, our findings suggest that the implementation of social legislation at one level in a federal regulatory system undermines...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
was tempered by lingering economic fears: one poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans expected that within a decade, another depression would devastate the country. With the health of the peacetime economy now the nation's top...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh, just leave that job.” You could...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
phenomena like Total Quality Management or supply chain management, where the company has configured its processes purposefully to identify systems effects, has never seemed to penetrate HR. That not only will they not know their turnover...
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- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
the company faces a number of challenges, including generic drugs, patent infringements in developing countries, and pricing pressure from governments and health insurers in the United States. Given these challenges, Novartis must decide...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
can’t address that challenge, we were going to end up with more people in liberal democracies feeling like the system is unfair, and they would be right to feel that. But also, we were squandering economic opportunity, it was deeply...
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is a classic problem of general management thinking that, because they have a policy and they have a procedure and they have a manual, that it’s actually being followed and executed against. I think the second thing is, many of these types of outcomes aren’t actually...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Campus Martius Park. The city’s mile road system originates here; 8 Mile is eight miles away. In the 1990s, when the park was first conceived, it was a signal of a future for the neighborhood; Cummings sat on the board that designed it....
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
United States. Most of these returns were due to the transportation of petroleum from California to the East Coast. The United States also succeeded in leveraging the threat of military force to obtain a much better deal from the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
because I feel like the impacts of COVID-19 are so nuanced – depending on your geography, your age, whether you are a parent, your socioeconomic status, your health profile, whether you were a front-line worker, if the death toll impacted...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
part-time jobs. The model helps businesses deal with economic uncertainty, and individuals handle non-work obligations. Kelly Services, the 75-year-old firm that is synonymous with temporary work, has filled many essential positions. It supplies epidemiologists to the...
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