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- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict and a compulsive capitalist," and deep down knew that he...
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- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
studied pigeons and found that once discovering randomly which button when pressed yielded a corn pellet, pigeons would repeat the act, a form of repetition compulsion. Unfortunately, leaders often become addicted to the compulsion to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the wealthiest nation in the world....
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
presented with the image of a potential date, taken from Facebook. He or she swipes left on the screen to dismiss the potential date or swipes right to indicate interest. With the swipe, Tinder turned what was once a time-consuming slog through online dating résumés...
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April White
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
get ahead of industry shift, now plagued with high opioid addiction rates. Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome also touched on the importance of an inclusive, people-first approach, such that capital meant to support disadvantaged communities can...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
love nature. I love hiking. I love going to Tibet and just hike for days and days, or go to the Andes and do the same thing, hiking all the way Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, which is just physically thrilling and challenging. And I get View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
mutually assured destruction. What America requires is a new security concept that the authors call "strategic independence" to enable keeping the peace in dangerous times and foster new generations of leaders capable of acting sanely despite a current public...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
executive wanted to take on the opioid crisis. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Jim, your organization, the Georgia Prevention Project, the name of it says it all. Getting people who are addicted to drugs to stop taking them is really difficult....
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
fast? Are business schools right in buying into a method of scoring the game that threatens to reduce their diversity of intellectual and social capital? All for the sake of a best list ranking? Are these really the right signposts on the road to a success that...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
created a powerful framework every type of business can use to connect analytic power, business practices, and human dynamics in ways that can transform what is currently possible. After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Rob Reid (MBA 1994) (Del Rey) Phluttr, a...
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- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
corporations don't behave in a responsible manner, they’re not only inviting regulations, they're inviting monopolization, breakup and antitrust suits. And a lot of other things. We talked about the addiction factor, particularly for...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
product that carried a lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance that teens would easily develop nicotine addictions from smoking the fruit-flavored products....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
pollution on local fauna. That evening, just up the hill in the high-ceilinged dining room of Laurel House, those same children will eat a meal served by a recovering opioid addict whom Marietta hired fresh out of a treatment program....
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