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administering academic programming in their regions, providing advice to MBA students interested in careers abroad, and developing corporate relationships with potential FIELD Global Capstone partners. A Global History Explore key dates... View Details

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 numbers of teams are View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

18 Jul 2023
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Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

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products had the potential to revolutionize underwater communications, creating networks equivalent to Wi-Fi at sea. WSense’s innovations could capabilities that were essential to ocean sustainability, but there were also risks that they... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Joint Venture

The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows... View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

02 Feb 2023
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Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

somewhere, and then you have operations all over the US or maybe even worldwide,” he says. “It’s actually not that simple to understand what’s going on in all of your facilities.” In that way, social media could be used by companies to help business leaders learn about... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

‘cast a much wider net’ For public companies, the findings offer a fresh look at a potential pool of candidates. The authors cite Boeing CEO David Calhoun as just one prominent example. Calhoun, who became vice chairman of General... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

“Microsoft Word is a godsend, and it’s also my doom. English not being my first language, I’m a terribly deliberate writer. I don’t think I’ve ever composed a sentence without fooling around with it. Word makes that process potentially... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Minority Students - MBA

Finance Scholarship, awarded to outstanding U.S. and Canadian minority students preparing for careers in state and local government finance. For further information visit GFOA . Prospanica Designed for graduate students of Hispanic/Latino heritage who want to achieve... View Details

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Leadership Fellows

– Ability to work on and influence projects of key strategic importance to the organization with the potential to help build organizational capacity. Leadership – An experience that involves management and leadership development... View Details

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The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton

Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as... View Details

Keywords: Spontaneous Thoughts; Self-Insight; Meaning; Attribution; Judgment And Decision Making; Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking

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10 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back

equality-oriented could make women less likely to be hired and less likely to be seen as suitable leaders.” It’s the latest potential wrinkle a long-running debate about why women are underpaid and how to right the situation. It’s widely... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

potential for high productivity, but is not sufficient Endowments create a foundation for prosperity, but true prosperity is created by productivity in the use of endowments The overall quality of the business environment impacts company... View Details

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

performance of the district's lowest performing schools. But, relatively few BTR graduates joined these schools-they were free to pursue teaching openings at any school in the district. Solomon knew the potential to partner more closely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2023
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After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

for signs of greater risk that might not appear on a balance sheet or cash-flow statement. In addition, the study also looked at how well agencies did in estimating potential recovery by borrowers in the event of a default. A final... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

growth and skyrocketing stock price made it difficult for most directors to challenge management's strategy and tactics. Still, board members understood that Enron was trying to move underperforming assets and potential investment losses... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

12 Apr 2017
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Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

very important to their patients.” Here’s what happened when the doctors chose not to follow the standard scheduling policy: In total, the time it took to read an image increased by 13 percent. That lost time cost the firm a lot of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

29 Nov 2010
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United Breaks Guitars

moment can fade fairly quickly. Even so, an organization needs to be aware of how best to present itself in this new environment and respond to potential parodies of its brand. "It's a transparent world," he says. "This is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades

By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano

Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Performance Productivity; Quality; Economic Growth; Singapore