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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness after performing a goal-directed act of kindness than did those who were assigned a functionally similar,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
facilitating transactions in the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) of 1999, which required, as of November 29, 2000, that U.S. patent applications be published 18 months... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
makers with asymmetric preferences face multiple issues and have limited resources for influencing outcomes. A delayed decision becomes part of the subsequent agenda, thereby altering the allocation of resources. The opportunity to delay decisions leads the players to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's package of reforms was—and to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a life of regret, he View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
interesting first-year experiences. 1.One day was picked as mirror-opposite day. Everyone had to dress and act like the person sitting in their mirror-opposite seat for the day. You had to work in their mannerisms and quirks of speech as... View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
the risk of creating "splinter groups" or factions along issue lines that make it difficult for the company to communicate and act in a coherent way. The result is often mixed messages to external parties and internal confusion about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
multiple assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single, fixed assortment—the retailer effectively conceals a portion of its full product catalog from consumers, injecting uncertainty into the consumer's relative product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
there in the labor room. When I got home, I got a bill. I had never made it to the delivery room—pitocin acts suddenly. But I had a charge for the delivery room on my bill. And I called the clerk at the hospital who said, "Why are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing. Gina was the Penn and Teller of misdirection, acting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
reported great memories of Dean McArthur to my wife and my kids. I will never forget my favorite Dean John. —Paolo Amato (MBA 1994) My most memorable encounter with Dean McArthur occurred during the late spring of my second year in the MBA program. My very last... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
not doing this to increase our sales ... or our profits." Our sample cases have exhibited remarkable correlation between altruistic drives and family companies. From an ethical point of view, it is to be expected that individuals View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
then continues. “When Joey died, John was in Paris. And when he heard the news, he got on the next plane and came home, and showed up at my house the next day. “John just always knew the right thing to do. Never went in through the back door, never took the short cut,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Black man who rarely saw protagonists who looked like them in the classroom. These acts may seem small, but nearly 80 percent of business school cases taught around the world are developed at Harvard. If we change the way we write and... View Details
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Church’s Labs that are pushing the frontiers of biology (recreating the Woolly mammoth from ancient DNA), extending health lifespans – ‘curing the disease of aging’. We also look at feeder technologies that act as accelerants to the core... View Details