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  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the tendency to see superior performance as rooted in one's actions rather than other factors (such as luck). The second is that success feeds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

feeding herself. This blessing has made me much more empathetic towards others with needs. Some challenges in life you just have to endure well.” Lily and Frey’s wife, Kym, stayed home for his remaining crossings between 2013 and 2016... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

1980s when he and his wife, Ali Hewson, worked at an Ethiopian feeding station. He used his growing celebrity status to forge a crucial longtime relationships with Eunice Kennedy Shriver (U2 recorded a song for her Special Olympics... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 29 Mar 2023
  • News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

identifying such a social-sensitive goal for ourselves as a food company. We are willing to continue working along the same objective with additional features and more dedicated resources from now on.” MARCH 21 To support earthquake... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Green Day

for livestock and wildlife will grow. And grow. And grow. A more recent discovery is that elephant grass can feed power plants as well as animals. Cut, dried, and burned, it generates 25 times as much energy as the fossil fuel used to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

expectation of the ask, or opportunity for individuals to find their own excuses. Our field experiment supports this extension of self-serving or excuse-driven choices: prosocial behavior reduces by 22% when an upcoming ask is expected. View Details
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Meal Plan

to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There could be higher compensation,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free access to its online Startup... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

operators, in addition to government-run vehicles. The result: an unregulated, competitive chaos on roads already choked with cars, motorcycles, and three-wheeled tuk tuks. If all goes to plan, bus service will be consolidated on clean,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

warrant that Linux ends up forcing Windows out. We do this by modifying the model in two ways. First of all, we look at the effect of having buyers such as governments and some large corporations committed to deployment of Linux in their organizations. We call such... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 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. "I'd go to meetings and duck out... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Get Creative

needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this strategy can play into talent... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

from the private sector and focusing on banks: rights offerings, debt restructurings, and FDIC-assisted bridge banks. Each approach was used in dealing with problem banks in the 1990s; each can be pursued without additional legislation;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2022
  • News

Onboarding

for five years before moving over to Xerox in 1978. “I like to learn,” Barron has said. “And I like to do.” That straightforward philosophy led to a multifaceted, 21-year career at Xerox, where she held senior leadership roles in the company’s largest divisions, in... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

given this increases a project's cost and introduces additional technical risk. It is better for a program manager to coordinate the development and validation of these core infrastructural technologies, making sure that they fulfill the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

95%CI=0.54-1.34, p=0.48), nor order, comparing groups 1+3 with 2+4 (40% v 37 %, OR=0.88, 95%CI=0.56-1.39; p=0.59), influenced the likelihood of choosing IC. Participants choosing IC were more likely to invoke sanctity of life and religiosity as personal values. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

friends’ purchasing. Third, they looked at whether liking affects things other than purchasing (for example, whether it can persuade people to engage in healthful behaviors). And fourth, they tested whether boosting likes by paying to have branded content displayed in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

internet is putting ever more power in the hands of the customer, a book that treats pricing with substance and foresight is a welcome addition to the market. - John Schermerhorn, Professor Emeritus, Ohio University Fearless Growth: The... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

the 2001-2005 period. The reasons why publicly listed Chinese firms are more diversified than companies elsewhere are investigated. Agriculture as a Source of Fuel: Prospects and Impacts, 2007 to 2017 Authors:John N. Ferris and Satish V. Joshi Publication:In Biofuels,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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