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15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

meaningfulness and awe, but there's this whole other element of what about not those one discrete moments, but the compilation of moments? So you talked about children and the pain that comes from having them, but it's that culmination of all the little moments. So I... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

while showing off an industrial refrigerator stacked with free-range eggs and 25-kilo blocks of Normandy butter. Trays of madeleines cool on racks. A few feet away, workers monitor a machine that wraps the tiny cakes individually in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

sets an example that others can follow. Leaders should not only be ethical but also be seen as ethical. Finally, a true leader thinks outside her personal "patch" to consider the broader implications of her work—the value chain beyond her View Details

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

mixed expertise teams in which members must work together across knowledge boundaries to accomplish challenging goals will be more likely to collaborate effectively if each individual member perceives that his or her expert identity,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

follow we present 6 of the 788 students who personify the remarkable qualities and achievements typical of the class as a whole. Al Dobron, Raj Kapoor, J.B. Lyon, Melissa Ma, Emma Minto, and Tarrus Richardson are talented individuals who... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Awarded the Individual Air Medal and the Strike-Flight Air Medal, among other commendations. Additional Alumni with Iraq or Afghanistan Service Gerald E. (“Jay”) Hedley (MBA ’01),... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

did, when I finished the MBA, interview in insurance companies and other kinds of companies that were in the Hartford area. Career I loved mentoring people, training people. I set up little programs for individual assistant buyers and I... View Details

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

between individual internal units and their external counterparts, but eventually this collaboration will become cross-functional and cross-stakeholder in nature. The implicit theory behind having annual reports that focus on financial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

everyone from a Morehouse School of Medicine professor to an entrepreneur offering nonaddictive alternatives for pain relief to Georgia’s public health commissioner. Langford runs the meeting with a light hand, welcoming late arrivals and somehow giving everyone in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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