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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
the DA. In designing the DA career conference initiative, Harris and her team polled DA faculty representing all promotion tracks and length of service. They also captured best practices from across other NAH divisions and other peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the technology, industrial, and health care categories. Q: Do investors expect the same results from social purpose companies? A: Investors' Circle polled its membership about their return expectations as part of a member survey being... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
complex processes that often don't exist? (The respondents to a poll of 1200 HR managers indicated that 60 percent did not have a CEO succession plan in place.) Are CEOs reluctant to initiate plans that require substantial effort and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
benefits to part-time workers. We have a consulting firm poll our workers every year to find out how they feel about the company, and they've told us that they've never seen such a positive response in an organization of this size — the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
office, but maintains that his long-term ties give him an advantage. “The big question is who can be more effective for our district,” he says. Edwards may defy the odds once again. Polls in mid-October showed him with a commanding... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth (from 1960 to 2005) in the rich half of nations has not brought happiness gains above those that were already in place once the 1960s standard of living had been achieved. However in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Scriplogix also polled conference attendees about their views of what the future held and the impediments, if any, to fashioning curricula which could help students best address this future. Concurrently, Herzlinger and conference... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
there was a question about whether that would be a detriment - people might think that I was buying the election. The local newspaper took a poll and asked, "Are you offended by Herb Kohl spending his own money to run for office?"... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
organization around it. Blogging, today, is increasingly common. In an informal poll in the School's General Management Program, which brings in executives from around the world, about 20 percent said they write a regular blog. Q: Care to... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
growing number of elections, and that is a cause for concern.” Fewer voters means less people having a stake in what government does, eroding trust of the governed—particularly by younger, poorer, and less educated citizens, who tend to stay home from the View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
outsourcing and movement of labor, with its social welfare offerings. Reforms implemented during the past two decades drove down unemployment, promoted new company formation, and put the country at or near the top of international polls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
top players' market share declined more than 10 percent. Not surprisingly, many executives' faith in CRM has waned. In a 2001 Bain & Co. survey of the 25 most popular management tools, CRM was ranked near the bottom. In a follow-up study, 20 percent of the 451... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
way. It was Primary Day. As was his habit on this occasion of civic duty, Joseph J. Lhota (MBA '80) had risen early at his Brooklyn Heights home in order to vote at his local polling place before departing for Lower Manhattan and his City... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—To predict others’ behavior and make their own choices, voters and candidates can rely on information provided by View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
and negative economic growth are experienced, with losses having more than twice as much impact on individual happiness as compared to equivalent gains. We use Gallup World Poll data drawn from 151 countries, Behavioral Risk Factor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
and depth of talent across a group of players (at the right price), there’s the fan’s experience to be considered. When asked about sightings of the Cardinals’ chairman polling visitors to the new stadium on one of the hottest afternoons... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
Edsall has reported, 2019 research by Carol Graham, a Brookings senior fellow, and Sergio Pinto, a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy, found that poor Blacks are by far the most optimistic group compared to poor whites .Graham... View Details