Suicide - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
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Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership

the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Turning Point: Network Effects

exhausting days of my life. Suicide is incomprehensible on some level, especially when the individual concerned has all the external indicators of success and accomplishment. What we do understand is that one in four Americans has a... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

disabilities and degenerative neurological conditions. (In one of several such tragic incidents, in 2011, 10-year NFL veteran Dave Duerson (OPM 30, 2001)—who had been suffering from a deteriorating mental state—instructed his family before committing View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2002
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Pursuing the Ultimate Deal

Authority.) Eighteen months after the near-miss deal, after an eruption of hostilities, the two leaders found their political fortunes reversed. Sharon's poll numbers were way down (due to suicide bombers and insecurity inside Israel)... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Middle East; peace; Israel; Palestine; policy; Government

01 Sep 2008
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Letters to the Editor

and I thought that a friend was kidding around so I said, “Yes, and who the hell is this?” The reply: “Georges Doriot. You are a friend of Phil Platt’s? Did you know that he committed suicide on Martha’s Vineyard?” Phil was a very close... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

sound decision making as it is about money. And when it works, innovative finance gives us the tools, motivation, and security to invest in our shared future. Off Script: An Advance Man’s Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political View Details

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

you barely can get out of bed. Have suicidal thoughts, in my case. Mixed with periods of what's called mania, which is hyperproductivity. Feeling on top of the world. And often, is linked to increases in irritability and other... View Details

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