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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?
potential. Whillans explains that our exposure to feedback most often occurs in a setting like a performance evaluation, where someone either has or has not passed a measurable threshold. As a result, we limit ourselves to examining what... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority children, whose choices are public... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
explained, humans across cultures share predilections ranging from choices of habitation sites to preferred colors and visual forms. "In twenty or thirty years," Wilson said, "our knowledge of human nature will make today's knowledge look... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock market. It also suggests alternative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
book, because I honestly thought that the last thing the world needed was another business book. Laughs And although I liked to think I had something interesting to say, it’s a big deal to ask people to set aside ten hours of their life... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many companies struggle to adjust to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do about It) by Michael E. Raynor (DBA ’00) (Doubleday Publishing) Managers make choices with far-reaching consequences based on assumptions about an uncertain future. This collision between... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
its food supply, considered the uncertainties climate change is introducing into the global food market and set a target of fulfilling 30 percent of its nutritional needs domestically by 2030; alternative protein sources could help the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
deliver value for patients, and a set of recommendations for getting there.” After two more years of research, Porter and Teisberg produced Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. The book describes a path to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
of eyeglasses can cost more than a month's wages. That's because much of the world relies on highly trained specialists who use sophisticated and expensive equipment, in a market that provides consumers with choice and fashion in eyewear.... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
They present six basic characteristics that marketing and democracy share: exchanges of value, consumption of goods and services, choice in all decisions, free flow of information, the engagement of most individuals, and inclusion of as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
(government-run) system; or various elements borrowed from all of these. President Obama has said he wants to move gradually, beginning by insuring all children, and has expressed reservations about aspects of the Massachusetts model, such as the individual mandate.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
officials to take steps to enhance competitiveness. “While government policy sets the platform, companies have an essential role in improving the business environment in US communities,” says Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Important Life Decisions by Jaja Jackson (MBA 1999) and Jennifer Grimes (Jennifer Grimes) The authors demonstrate that it is really how we make important decisions that will determine how happy we are. A special set of information about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
infrastructure, and insufficient workforce skills. While government must play a role in addressing these issues, Porter and Rivkin believe that business leaders should set the example by making choices that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Ettus Photo Courtesy Samantha Ettus In The Experts’ Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do (Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2004), Samantha Ettus (MBA ’01) set out to write “a CliffsNotes for life.” Ettus, who is the founder and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
When contemplating a move that will set your career on a new course, be sure to sharpen your navigational skills. “The research and preparation that go into making a move are crucial to success,” counsels Christine Sullivan, director of... View Details