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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
others. It helped me see that everyone’s behavior is purposeful.” ON LEADERSHIP “The most important thing about leadership is character. You can’t fake character. Integrity is a binary state: Either you have it or you don’t.” CURRENT... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
Baker: Chronicler of dirty money. In his new book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Raymond W. Baker (MBA ’60) chronicles the widespread illegal flow of money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
going to have to use our strength in numbers to change the national la-la-land conversation on retirement-income security.” —Elizabeth White (MBA 1988), on navigating the financial challenges she faced, from Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Brierley Professor of Business Administration. “But even when firms never guarantee that consumers will choose the winner, consumers infer an implicit contract and are upset when that contract is violated.” Norton and John examine the pitfalls of those implicit... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
commented that, “I would any day prefer self moderation to empty haughtiness.” Nilgun Yetis described them as “very talented and wholehearted people.” GuestReader put it this way: “Lack of certainty in one’s ability to succeed is reasonable at the outset of a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Crypto Is Growing Up. Are Companies Ready? | Working Knowledge
how emerging technologies disrupt traditional industries. When blockchain and crypto started gaining traction, it was clear they weren’t just alternative payment systems—they were laying the foundation for a completely new economic... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
Imagine you walk into a shop where you don’t know the prices. Maybe it’s a Turkish souk, redolent with smells of saffron and turmeric. Or maybe it’s a New Hampshire antique store, full of dusty shelves of enticing oddities. You pick out... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural adaptability of the person... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
statements, Facebook has lobbied against further regulation by government, typically ranking in the top 10 US spenders on lobbying efforts. What’s the solution? To Facebook’s credit, it has been partnering with government and nongovernmental organizations to weed out... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
American vacation, Wall Drug was already a kind of Wild West theme park. “My dad built an experience for people to take away with them,” Hustead says. “It involves education, entertainment, aesthetics, and escapism — you can’t fake it.”... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
concerned about cash, and employees worry about their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, says professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your strategies to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
negative shock to global growth, that would be bad news for everyone. I don’t believe this to be the base case unless there is a real hard landing. Q: Which industries and nations will feel this slowdown most acutely and how are they... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
another 30,000 visit the company’s elderly day care facilities; and 2,500 people now have the ability to stay home at the end of life like Sato-san, instead of resorting to an overcrowded and more expensive hospital setting. Desperate for solutions and seeing the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries and generated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
recipients of the School’s highest honor demonstrate the many paths to success, be it in government service, finance, or social enterprise. For the Records In the midst of Austin’s buzzy music scene, Caren Kelleher is finding her harmony as both founder of Gold Rush... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins,... View Details