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- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
different way. Or maybe the trigger is an event in our personal life. The break-up of a relationship or the death of a parent. The types of experience that bring on impasse are myriad, and we often don't realize how much particular life... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
the topic based on his own experience as an outdoor wilderness instructor, an area in which the cost of failure is too high for people to learn only from their own experience. “Trial and error is not the way you want to learn rock climbing,” says Myers. When acquiring... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were predicting the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
life and death for patients. "One device I am studying allows you to replace a heart valve through a catheter inserted in the thigh, rather than doing open-heart surgery," she says. "It allows a whole group of people who are very sick to... View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
scholars and students of both sexes. Then, too, he suffered some dreadful personal tragedies, such as the death of his 23-year-old wife in childbirth, and of his newborn son 4 hours later. This was the pivotal event of his life. In the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst. Forensic scientists usually fill out a simple form containing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Shara Ticku
for? My life had once been directional —onward, upward— a series of events that would push me higher up the metaphorical ladder I so desperately wanted to climb. But my father’s death was sudden and unexpected, a total freak accident. It... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
training in leadership and management skills, such as supply chain management, interpersonal communication, and strategic planning. Yet these skills are important for the well-being of doctors and their colleagues and can mean the difference between the life and View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
kind—of someone who could achieve so much in his career and yet have the strength and wisdom to keep balance in his life, and pursue agendas far beyond explaining "Big Business." Al was a fine human being as well as a superb scholar, whose View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
budgeting, like death and taxes, will always be with us, deceitful behavior doesn't have to be. That's because the budget process itself isn't the root cause of the counterproductive actions; rather, it's the use of budget targets to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
100 slaves—received death threats and was spit on in public. He did not win reelection to the council and found himself shut out of work opportunities in the area. “It was time to return to Omaha,” he says. “We were heading into the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
grandfather invented the first hard hat -- crafted from canvas and glue -- and his father ran the company until his death in 1971. During Jed Bullard's 25-year tenure at E.D. Bullard, the company has grown to $50 million in annual sales;... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
Health Climate change is predicted to be responsible for 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050 as the result of heat exposure among the elderly, childhood undernutrition, malaria, and other diseases exacerbated by... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
negative effects generated by an overpowering leader can make non-leaders feel more empowered to assert their own point of view—whether or not the person dominating the conversation is a formal leader. Life And Death The Gino team has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
hundred years, all of us sitting in this room today will be gone. Just at different times, some sooner than the others. So then if death is the ultimate truth, what should really matter most in life? I feel the only thing that truly... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Grove came to find hateful. Everything about Communist Hungary elevated the lie at the expense of the truth. Both during the Nazi and Communist eras, knowing what really was going on—finding out the actual truth—was more than once a matter of life and View Details
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
in leisure activities. “It’s the old adage that nobody on their death bed ever said they wished they spent more time in the office,” Keinan says. “If marketers can help consumers devote more time to things that are really important—like... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding