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won't affect your overall grade. Missing more than one quiz deadline per course, however, will adversely affect your course grade and your credential eligibility. All CORe modules and quizzes must be completed to be eligible to take the... View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

American voters want their government to reign in rising drug spending, according to recent polls. They spend twice as much a year per person on medications than the average Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

for new enrollees starting in 2020. States would receive a set amount of funding per enrollee each year, letting them administer Medicaid as each sees fit. However, states without the money to fund the difference would likely reduce... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

the manufacturing activity, involving everything from the cost per kilowatt-hour for electricity rates to local material and wage costs. There are also productivity differences between countries to consider, thanks in part to varying... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

statistics showcasing the combined cost of white collar crime. Accounting scandals: $40 billion per year. Insurance fraud: $80 billion. "Wardrobing" (purchasing a new outfit, wearing it for a night on the town, and then... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

Schultz. Wall Street demanded increasing growth, internationalization, better productivity, and new products. And Schultz's successors responded by opening up to five new stores per day; extending business to many new foreign markets;... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

job quantity and quality is a function of growth and productivity. If growth occurs that is roughly equivalent to increased productivity, little change occurs in the number of jobs although the quality of those jobs (assuming that higher output View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA

into the Student Absence Notification Tool per the Attendance Policy . When needed, they may report “Dependent Childcare for illness, medical appointments, or other emergency childcare needs" if absences related to their child arise.... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested

“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; women in business; COVID-19; film; media; television; Arts, Entertainment

25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

consumer behavior and replacing petroleum-based plastics altogether. At S’well, Kauss estimates that each bottle she sells can replace at least 167 single-use plastic ones per year—enough to put her Million Bottle Project, which aims to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

as in wanting a female CEO or cabinet secretary at a dinner party and laughing at her jokes. When I examined success in the workplace decades ago for my book Men and Women of the Corporation, I didn’t want to focus on gender per se. I... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

of12trillion put it more succinctly: “Communicate to people the exact additional amount they’d be earning per capita if everyone behaved differently.” Are investors the ultimate antidote to gender inequality in leadership? What do YOU... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

demand for pure, savory condiments and sauces was enormous. In thinking through the possible appeal of his offerings, Heinz had no quantitative information on contemporary purchasing power. He did not know in the 1870s that real per... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with some of the market design challenges,” Kominers explains. But the team found that government officials didn’t invest nearly enough. Their study estimates the world is on track to be able to produce 3... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

24 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 24

cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

of old firms, and the creation of new and appealing jobs. "The larger and more liquid an equity market is," Seifert emphasized, "measured in terms of its turnover ratio [that is, the average number of times a share changes hands], the faster the growth... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

nearly 80,000 options, which has a Black Scholes value of $2.8 million (equivalent to the next present value of $1 million per year for three years). Shifts in stock price have a dramatic effect on this large holding. If the stock price... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

minutes trading halts, and students submit their permits. They are obliged to pay a fine of $40 per ton of pollution exceeding their permit holdings. “No one is thinking about efficient reduction of pollution during the exercise.”... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

proposing this tax on their own sector of ~$150 USD per ton of carbon emitted to incentivize the shipping industry to move forward. The role of culture Our week in Denmark opened our eyes to how integrated sustainability is in both... View Details

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

hours in the workweek, and the rise in per capita income, more Americans now had the time and money to enjoy leisure activities once considered the privilege of the upper class. The Progressive Era of social activism and political reform... View Details

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