Recommendation Optimism - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

if or when they want them. In terms of similarities between the generations, when we asked our 4,005 respondents for advice for women of color in the workplace, the universal answer was never give up. With this level of ambition, we View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education bureaucracy—in Obama's hometown.... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

Tongish, posted his profile to a now-defunct website that promised online dating with a twist: Women recommended their male friends to other women. Kushner, who had also recommended a friend of hers on the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's research... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

on how people can reorient the second half of their lives for optimal happiness. Does this idea play less with students because they first have to chase that success to understand its limits? Or are they ready at an earlier age to define... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

that feels so at odds, I think, with the expectations one might have for a Wall Street operator, right? Is this optimism about humanity a rare quality in the industry, or have I just watched too many movies? TB: Yeah, I think part of this... View Details

Keywords: Finance

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a deep purplish-red. Keen has taught a course on the economics of corn at Creighton University's Heider College of... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

business. These essential insights for enduring and optimizing the middle miles will outfit managers to find their way through the messy middle of any bold project or new venture. Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism... View Details

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