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21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

Deshpandé: It’s been 40 years since I lived in India, so I’d seen some of her earlier movies, when she was just becoming a star. She was very, very good. Then I heard about her work over the years. One has this stereotype about actors being very good at View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

Capital's Mike Schuh underscores the value of mentor capitalists as filters: "Of the hundreds of things that I look at every week, if it's got one of those [mentor's] names on it, I don't even bother reading further. I just make the... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

company was its values. But employees also said that the worst thing about the company was that the CEO had been, from their point of view, breaching the values that he himself had developed for the company. Unwittingly, even a committed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

read in Washington since it was submitted to Congress in January by a Congressional Oversight Panel. Congress created the five-member panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

crises like the one that we are experiencing tend to facilitate the development and implementation of changes that break with the existing norms and power hierarchies. We all have the opportunity to participate in the collective effort to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

of data and protocols so that records can be aggregated. In Massachusetts, for example, Blue Cross Blue Shield has invested heavily in a pilot program to develop a medical records platform that could be shared. But as we emphasize in our... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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