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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
which people can be encouraged toward healthier behaviors through the framing of choices. One approach that has proven effective in weight loss and smoking cessation has been leveraging “loss aversion,” even if that’s just the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
until seventh grade, basketball until eighth grade, football until ninth. Then I wrestled and threw the shot put and discus through high school. The faster the ball moved — or the smaller it got — the sooner my career in that sport was over!” Gibbons’s vision View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
knowledge loss, identify the deep smarts essential to their business, use techniques for transferring knowledge when its loss is imminent, identify and implement long-term transfer program apprenticeships, set up individual learning plans... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
to millennial customers who are seeking new taste experiences,” says Cunningham. Survey data also showed that McDonald’s wasn’t losing to the fast-casuals—the bulk of those losses were to competitors like Wendy’s, Burger King, and Taco... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
The loss of these “deep smarts” will become more urgent as baby boomers retire and the economy recovers. Professor Emerita Leonard and her coauthor, her husband, discuss how deep smarts are developed and expressed, how they can be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
make judgments. In this case, I do plead guilty to betraying my sex. Who is your audience, and has it changed over the years? It’s 70 percent male, in their 20s to 50s. They’ve been hammered by job loss and underemployment. The core... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bujalski (MBA 1976) Independently published Very few of us get through life without experiencing a major personal crisis or devastating loss. These crises and losses can come with great pain and often with almost unbearable inner turmoil.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
It is estimated that one billion people around the world need vision correction but don't have glasses because they are too expensive or simply unavailable. The resulting losses in productivity and self-sufficiency may reach as much as... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
chronicles what he saw, and how much could have been prevented, in an unflinching investigation of the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life. With unparalleled access to key government players on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these changes. "Big Blue" was bleeding red,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
testified against deregulation in my first appearance in the Congress. I explained that it would put us out of business. And when I sat down with the staff, they said, "Frank, we think that you're right. We think that there will be a loss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
loss of cohesiveness and shared purpose. “We were one big family to start with,” he recalls, “but when we opened a plant in Los Angeles we began to talk about how to sustain the sense of pride and the culture that we had begun to... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
a shopping mall, just as the addition of a talented director or actor can change the fortunes of a movie. There is one key difference, however. “In real estate, you’ll know about what your project is worth, in the end. Not so with films. You have no idea whether you... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
cybersecurity resulted in losses of $500 billion in 2014, but we’re only spending about $100 billion to address the problem. There’s a huge gap between the size of the threat and our ability to detect it. + ONLINE web-only content... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Kristof, most of which have focused on poverty in developing countries. But in the Pulitzer Prize-winning duo’s latest book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, they turn their lens on working class communities in the United States—communities that have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
basic idea is a good one, but will not end too big to fail. We desperately need to streamline the process of allocating losses when a large financial institution fails. But it’s simply unrealistic to believe that in the heat of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
In the case of Mark Tatum, medicine's loss will surely be the business world's gain. Almost since the day he was born in a war-torn village in Vietnam, his Jamaican-born father and Vietnamese mother had dreamed of the day their firstborn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
Embarrassing losses to the JVs have the varsity crew members dispirited and complaining about one another. Confidence is fading fast. The national rowing tournament is a week away. Should Coach P simply declare the JV boat to be the new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
incentives support them in this regard.” Beaulieu says that class discussion moves back and forth between general questions around governance and Disney-specific examples. Due to extensive media coverage of Eisner and WDC, students aren’t at a View Details