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01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details

09 Dec 2021
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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 Jun 1996
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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 "The old business model of self-reliance, of doing everything ourselves, is no longer applicable in a world that's changing rapidly and has global markets."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
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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 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy you credibility—and of course, get the job done. What classical economic... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

products. Stock predicts that the development pace for personalized therapeutics and preventive diagnostics will pick up speed, thanks to the beneficial add-on effects derived from identifying more and more biomarkers for particular... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2016
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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 Dec 2016
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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

06 Dec 2021
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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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1996
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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

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