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05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

fret about the quality of the care they receive, the burden of out-of-pocket expenses, and gaps in coverage for long-term care, prescriptions, and catastrophic illnesses. For business, health care has become a lose-lose proposition: You... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

PublicationsAddressing the Leadership Gap in Medicine: Residents' Need for Systematic Leadership Development Training Authors:Daniel Mark Blumenthal, Kenneth Richard Lee Bernard, Jordan David Bohnen, and Richard Bohmer... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

25 Feb 2019
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How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

Women make up more than half of the labor force in the United States and earn almost 60 percent of advanced degrees, yet they bring home less pay and fill fewer seats in the C-suite than men, particularly in male-dominated professions... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni

showing progression/growth from position to position. Not recommended for gaps in employment dates, those out of job market for some time, or changing careers. Template 1 (login required) Template 2 (login required) Template 3 (login... View Details

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Faculty & Research

decision-making. This study addresses this gap by examining how organizations decide which innovations to implement and how the selection process influences their design and use. Drawing on a two-year ethnographic study, the research... View Details

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the small share of decedents who View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2024
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Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

Members of these colleges’ sports teams secure higher-level jobs and better pay after graduation than their non-athlete peers, finds the analysis of more than 400,000 Ivy Leaguers over the past half-century. Ivy jocks tend to earn some... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Jul 2023
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Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

many such workers are caregivers, excluded from full-time jobs because short-sighted employers don’t offer them the flexibility they need. Filtered out by hiring algorithms due to employment gaps or other hiring “red flags,” these willing... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

07 Jun 2023
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3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

competitive advantage and capture more value in two main ways—by increasing the customer’s willingness to pay or decreasing the minimum compensation paid to employees and suppliers. “If you can keep that gap... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Managing the Future of Work

help students access high-growth careers. The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America's Chronic Skills Gap By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman DEC 2022 To close America’s chronic middle skills gap, U.S. employers... View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Equal Rights Amendment Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion Social discord continues over Vietnam War and civil rights Watergate scandal undermines faith in authority Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 19 Moral Majority "Me" generation Focus on training and fitness Income View Details

03 Oct 2022
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Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

trajectories. Before founding their start-ups, founders attain jobs with wages up to 40 percent higher than those of similar non-founders. This wage gap between founders and non-founders only increases after founders reenter the labor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2022
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Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

feedback. They found that in every case, people rated their desire for feedback higher when they were imagining themselves as the receiver than when they were imagining themselves as the giver. In fact, the more consequential the situation, the larger that View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Oct 2023
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Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

practices to reinforce inequalities, not only in society, but right here in our company? This is often a challenging step for leaders. If you’re not using scorecards, dashboards or some other measurement system to analyze how everyone’s doing with hiring, promotions,... View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

21 Oct 2022
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People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

10 Oct 2007
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to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

The organization pays for the individual to enhance his or her skills—and résumé—and thereby benefit from participating. The second is the gap between the skills that executive development programs build and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Podcast - Business & Environment

through her own efforts to reconcile the climate crisis with her faith in the ingenuity of capitalism. “I believe that at the moment, our capitalism is also neither free nor fair,” she says. “The free market works when everyone can take part, and prices reflect real... View Details

20 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

"predicament" or event that reflects poorly on their competence, character, or commitment at some point in time, due to mistakes they have made in the past that have become public knowledge, or competency gaps (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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