University - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

to think about what she might want to do next, Murrell took the plunge, applying to the PhD program at Columbia University and beginning her studies in the fall of 2007. Sitting in a darkened auditorium, Murrell had a flash of insight... View Details

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

spectrum in terms of these programs, how much funding should there be for people to get food assistance, or workforce development, help people get jobs, you can pretty universally agree that we shouldn't be wasting money on those efforts.... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way

James Cook University to open several new campuses, the first of which is in Brisbane. In recognition of her business acumen, she was recently appointed to the advisory board of Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World and to the board of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2007
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The Winning Season

learning how to assess a player’s potential. DeWitt Jr. graduated from Yale University and HBS, but he had enrolled in Baseball U. many years earlier. At age six, as a batboy for the St. Louis Browns, he met Babe Ruth; when he was nine,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

his brain to science, to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a joint program between the Boston University School of Medicine and the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is a member of the board of directors. Kacyvenski... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute

after taxes. The students could discuss their grades but I believe they were allotted only a ten-minute appointment!” Although marriages did occur between graders and students (as well as less-sanctioned sorts of arrangements), Plexico concludes, “We were not View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

despite the fact that we were taxpayers, and in response to that, Historically Black Colleges and Universities were created. And HBCUs have been enormously powerful and profound in what they produced. We know that HBCUs have produced... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

individual drivers will undertake long-distance trips in all-electrics without a second thought, thanks to cheap, high-capacity battery packs and easy-to-find, universal fast-charging stations. Until that day arrives, however, the global... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, and Daniel Ng, founder-chairman, McDonald's Restaurants (HK), Ltd. But what about all those intricate family connections and networks that have made Asian entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

chose our family business, Universal Food Systems. Little did I know at the time that within the year I would become CEO of that company when I was just 25 years old. As a result of the work in Professor Salmon’s class, I had, with his... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

University - which will inherit two small stadiums built for Olympic field-hockey competition. After the Games, the two schools will share the facilities, with one stadium being converted for track and field and the other for college... View Details