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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
fundamentals. If the word “mortgage” is on a security, that now automatically means some discount. The erosion of trust in the subprime arena has affected the entire market. Are there other spillover effects? The corrosive impact of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
economies and cultures. Understanding this phenomenon of design evolution, the authors write, "is crucial to comprehending the opportunities and the risks that change creates." The authors describe their book as an examination of "the process of design and how it View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
major securities laws and the formation of the SEC. We were in the same sort of turbulent period but with one major difference. In 1929, not that many people were invested in the stock market. This time around, well over half of the population owns stocks one way or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
campaign finance reform? I'm very supportive of it. Money is way too important here in Washington. People who contribute the most influence legislation the most. And that's obviously contrary to our democracy. How has your own financial situation View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Chick-fil-A Foundation, lists some simple but powerful ways people can affect others and create a legacy of service. His stories aim to help people demonstrate life-changing compassion, understand courage, make brave choices every day,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
bottom line: "Climate does affect in a fundamental way the basic picture of global development," said Sachs. Thus, the "harsh physical environment" of most of the countries in Africa "provides a tremendously difficult backdrop for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two funds with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
high-quality family dining at a reasonable price; it would be a mistake to put a $45 bottle of wine on our menu." When consistency suffers, it doesn't take long for it to affect a restaurant's reputation, he adds. "If a customer has the... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
found myself thinking that unlike a career in applied math, where most of the work is pretty esoteric, if I could really make a breakthrough in economics, I might affect an awful lot of people. So, much to the chagrin of both my family... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
concern was that if they gave the senior partners time off, it would negatively affect the business, because customers were used to only dealing with the senior partners, and so senior partners wouldn't want to give up sole custody of... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
finances, or health care, or physical health. There's a lot that happens in our communities that affects employees, managers. The deadlines, the stress, the responsibilities, the leadership requirements, the demands. And I think there's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
into a product affects how easy it will be to market. There’s always this idea of feature creep that leads to adding bells and whistles. But every time you add bells and whistles, chances are you’re also adding costs. The ideal situation... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
and Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and his wife, Susan, an attorney, all of whom spoke about how personal events such as death and illness have affected their careers. "I was amazed at how candidly they... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
was ready to go, and who was just saying they were ready to go, because in the end, that was going to directly affect how successful we were. And number two, I had to figure out how do we respond. We've gotten an emboldened enemy on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
class with the standard cold-call, Bhide is able to present the results of the survey along with a summary of the students' qualitative comments. The quality of both teaching and learning has been affected dramatically. "Class begins with... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
perspective; he’s now solving problems that affect the more than twenty countries where CHAI works by adapting the same quantitative modeling techniques used in business logistics to find the most efficient ways for countries to use... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
affect how I felt about work." Initially taking it all in stride, Piette was back at work on a reduced schedule four days after delivering Zach, working from home and sometimes even taking him and his nanny with her on business trips.... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
on Iraq. For the Japanese in the room, it’s a sobering reminder of how war, and its aftermath, can affect a country and its people for decades. For the American, it indicates a clear need for political change. When her two-year commitment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on... View Details