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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
a good wait, because we got really excited about it. Now that we can watch them all the time, we lose the excitement of anticipation." Buy Time Norton suggests resisting the siren call of the big house in the suburbs. "What we've really... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
terms, but he embraced blogging, which was a radical idea in 2006 because people thought it would destroy our brand.” In other words, the magazine—a carefully thought-out and meticulously produced product—would be compromised by less polished, more off-the-cuff... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
the stuff, it is powdered Nescafé bought from streetside trolleys. Africa remains by and large the last part of the world to resist coffee, with tea and chocolate drinks the go-to hot beverages. (Exceptions are in the Francophone... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
new-economy innovation. "It takes a mix of perspectives," he observes. "Older companies must resist becoming mature, dull, and methodical. They need a youthful view." But Price, whose professional career has been complemented by civic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
resistance many of us feel. Dolly Chugh, award-winning professor of social psychology and author of The Person You Mean to Be, gives us the psychological tools we need to grapple with the truth of our country. Through heartrending... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
could be on vacation or doing something else that you want to do. So the name of the game here is to resist the constantly on, I have to soldier through treadmill, to say, my ability to look after myself, in order to do that, in order to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
drink is killing him or a CEO who lets the company go bankrupt instead of changing business tactics, most humans consistently resist listening to feedback about their mistakes. "There's nothing nonrational about making mistakes," said... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
at the 112-year-old company. Bain Capital founder and former Massachusetts senatorial candidate W. Mitt Romney (MBA '74, JD '75) noted that much of Bain's business comes from companies that need help after resisting for too long the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
body in the world is heavily sponsored by commerce, and commercial sponsorships are part of every major sporting event on the planet. The Olympic Games remain the only major competition of any sort that doesn't allow in-stadium signage. So I View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
getting internal systems to work together with other airlines and, culturally, has not adopted e-mail and voice mail as a means of dealing with customers and each other. "We resist nonhuman interfaces," commented John Denison, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
make substantial changes, including paying for language classes. While workers in their 40s and older often resist language mandates more than 20-somethings, Neeley says the older workers at Rakuten also shared advantages: they frequently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
brand awareness with users and buyers? The Answers: For a large enterprise build with distributed users, it will take too long to get a senior executive to purchase and mandate use, and there will likely be resistance from users. Buying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
biggest misses have been far misses, not near misses—companies that we didn’t pursue aggressively because we didn’t “get it,” or we believed the funding round was likely outside our typical parameters. Those include Stitch Fix, Cruise Automation, and Casper. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
research on high-need-for-achievement professionals — people with an insatiable need to keep achieving at all costs — DeLong took stock of the ways in which he and other driven executives can become victims of their own ambitions and View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
declared, American policy needs to become more multilateral, and globalization must be shaped by the international community “to resist the negative aspects and leverage the positive.” Richard haass: The former State Department official... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
backward-looking AI models. If the model is large enough and if sufficient computing power is thrown at it, who needs human imagination and discourse? And on the other side, we are glorifying the supernaturally visionary “great leader.” Hopefully, this book will... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
for a growth mindset, someone who is eager to learn, incorporates feedback, embraces challenge, and is humble. That's the kind of individual who over time will surpass the teacher who is seemingly more proficient but resists feedback,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
interpretability, fairness, and adversarial robustness of AI and ML models, i.e., how these models can be made more understandable to humans, and how they can be made more accurate, equitable to minority groups, and resistant to... View Details