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Professor Robin Ely on Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Blog: RGE Report

without being certain my view is correct!”). In both cases, impression management is the goal, but men’s behavior may be perceived favorably and women’s interpreted as under-confident. Myth: Women don’t value work as much as they value... View Details

11 Apr 2017
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Keeping the Missions Under Control

of a requirements interpretation and making sure, again, that the astronauts are safe. But that provider is providing the service to NASA to get them from the launch pad to the International Space Station. So those roles have changed.... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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He Begs to Differentiate

"Information is no longer power, it's the interpretation of information that is important," Martin Sorrell (MBA '68), chief executive of London-based WPP Group, told The Times of London (November 20, 1999). "Our clients are in an... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation

linguistic imprecision can lead investors to feel less confident about their own interpretations of the information presented—and to become less likely to react by buying or selling the company’s stock. The effect of murky language was... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a Dean’s designate for activities or questions not explicitly covered by the policy, or to request View Details

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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

it seem available." 22 Photographers explored inventive interpretations of subjects for artistic and commercial ends. These aspirations coincided with those of advertisers who understood the value of high art as a persuasive sales tool... View Details

23 May 2000
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The Emerging Art of Negotiation

lost); differing interpretations of what constitutes fair play. Be it a straightforward business transaction, a divorce or an international struggle to reach a peace agreement, there's much that can go wrong. But there's also much that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

with positional power over team members reactively followed up on a single communication when their attempt to communicate the existence of a threatening discrepant event failed, and they determined that a second communication was needed to enable its joint View Details

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

with a narrow interpretation of Linus' Law, namely, a greater number of contributors to an article makes an article more neutral. No evidence supports a broad interpretation of Linus' Law. Moreover, several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

cost of leisure is lower. We interpret these results as evidence of differences in preferences for leisure across CEOs rather than optimal responses to organizational differences correlated with ownership. Differences in labor supply are... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

potential value of new technologies by first holding them up against the company's business model.We argue that successful firms tend to interpret the potential value of nascent technologies in the context of the dominant business model... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

03 Sep 2024
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Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

because if they determine that the information is false and block it, “receivers” might just interpret this as indicating that the platform is beholden to agribusiness, inadvertently fanning the flames of the debate. “Finding that the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

25 Jul 2019
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Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

extremely impressed that the emphasis was not so much on teaching us how to calculate days receivable or WACC figures precisely right, but on how to use practical interpretations of business concepts in our lives as leaders in whichever... View Details

15 Dec 2020
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The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

interpret that to mean that it’s safe.” Luca and Glaeser teamed with University of Maryland Professor Ginger Zhe Jin and Benjamin T. Leyden, an assistant professor at Cornell University. They detailed their findings in Learning from... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

interpretations of policy." Simultaneously, she volunteered once a week with Junior Achievement, "teaching the fundamentals of banking to high-school boys and girls who wanted to learn how banks work." Moving from back... View Details

22 Sep 2020
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Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

interpret research findings when neurological results conflict with self-report? knowing how the brain is working explains very little about what the mind produces—what we think, what we believe, how we make decisions." As Mike... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Jul 2004
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Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

... technology, how do you draw the line between 'work' and 'life'? ... I think we need new definitions for [these terms] ...." Do you agree? And what interpretation should we place on the unusually large proportion of anonymous... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Oct 2001
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Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

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Finalists | New Venture Competition

Lexi Linh Pham (MDE 2025) Siddharth UR (MDE 2025) Jen Li (MBA 2025) Luke Fiorante (MDE 2026) Breaking language barriers with AI-powered medical interpretation for over 30 million patients Playlish Assel Amangeldi (EdM 2025) Ranjitsinh... View Details

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