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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
provide the company with the stability and predictability that go with refinery ownership," said Merton, "even though the company may not possess the actual physical technology." Given that these kinds of contractual scenarios will... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
research meeting at Numenta headquarters, Hawkins leads the team of neuroscientists in a long discussion about orientation—that is, how neurons determine where you are, and then predict where you’re going to be. Hawkins had pre-populated... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Book Group Coping with cancer is hard. It’s an emotional ordeal as much as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety,... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
predicted the demise of books with the advent of e-readers, but people are still buying printed books. Print isn’t going to disappear in the near future. + ONLINE web-only content Why didn’t newspaper groups innovate more rapidly in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
and the only time I’ve spent overnight in the hospital is when I was born. I don’t think that has any predictability about the next 62 years. – Lewis I. Rice View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
consumers? RS: It's important to drive home the optimistic side of all this. I think that, you know, profit margins and revenue predictions aside, we are engaged in this really thrilling age for business. And that doesn't mean just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Profiting from the World’s Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends by Bud Conrad (MBA ’71) (Wiley) Conrad predicts a rough road ahead, due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
done by an individual operating alone," Zschau declared. "The old business model of self-reliance, of doing everything ourselves, is no longer applicable in a world that's changing rapidly and has global markets." Zschau went on to View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
not a crapshoot intrinsically. We just don't teach people how to innovate in a way that will predictably yield the results that we need. And so, we started to pursue that issue about 20 years ago. And it took a long time, because there... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
human intelligence rather than replaces it. AI—and its subsets of machine learning and deep learning—has been transformative in the field of radiology, propelling it light years beyond Röntgen’s first X-ray image of his wife’s hand. It enables pattern recognition, data... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
predicts that Dell’s innovation-driven comeback will be one for the ages and that more than half of Dell’s profits will soon come from product lines it didn't have five years ago. Faculty Books The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
have been advocating for, which can be very unorthodox and generate economic disasters. In addition, their effects are very hard to predict because they have not been tested. The resulting uncertainty can also be costly to businesses.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
company’s legacy as Viana, who imagines his children’s children enjoying Jeannette madeleines. On break but still wearing her hairnet and white uniform, Régine Podgorny predicts the future: “We will be in our retirement, proud of what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
Central Park. Patient-centered innovation is finally happening, and it’s up to all of us to make sure it continues. On a more personal note, I’ve learned two big things from working in the ER. I’m humbler in terms of what science knows and how View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is staggering: The United Nations View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
If you expect people to perform," he asserts, "you must give them the best tools with which to perform." Mission Possible In a slower-moving, more predictable environment, the CEO could effectively act as the company's chief strategist.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry