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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
underlying price of the asset is increasing. It lures people to overextend credit and to overinvest on the prospect that they too will benefit before the music stops. In this case, the music stopped, and as we know, people are falling off... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
able to do that, especially from places like Baltimore. In Authentic Leadership Development, I realized my purpose is to bring realistic optimism to worthy causes. And if I’m going to do that, I have to start in my own home and my own... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
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Are Online Prices Higher Because of Pricing Algorithms?
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
the bat, the exit velocity when you hit the ball. That didn't exist 10 years ago. And what you're seeing is that hitters are now optimizing their swing to hit home runs and pitchers are optimizing their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
extensive network of trucks and rail access. “Then I got the Navy to bring in their barges, and we literally rolled the tanks into the water,” he says—perhaps simplifying the process a bit. “The GAO came out later and said that sinking every one of those tanks provided... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
responsibility. A setback like that could have been paralyzing, but he was able to move forward to lead his country to victory in World War II." The lesson, says Nohria, is that Churchill and other great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Women of Color Teaming Up to Lead, Empower and Thrive, paints a more optimistic picture, provided business leaders embrace our generational diversity findings. Our study confirms others that quantify the economic benefits of diverse... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book
Staples before coming to the bookseller, the future of Barnes & Noble lies in brick and mortar, an optimism that he has taken from the recent growth of independent bookstores. “That’s another sign that people do want places to go to buy... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
education reform in the past, but now, as the issue becomes more polarized, we need to engage in new ways. Take, for instance, the skills gap. In our current low- unemployment environment, businesses are having trouble filling... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
poverty." As the founder of One Earth Farms, Canada's largest farm, he partnered with First Nations in western Canada. When he created the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority (SIGA), it was First Nations that benefitted with jobs at a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Big Bailouts, Little Debate
profound panic could change the attitudes and politics that caused this mess. And while things are bad, they are a far cry from the unemployment and despair of the Great Depression. As evidence, let me point to the question I get most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt
discussion. Even so, he continued, it's good to keep the situation in perspective. When he graduated in the early 1980s, unemployment was around 12 percent, inflation was close to 15 percent, and interest rates were in double digits. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2025
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Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
Having spent a decade helping retailers optimize customer service, Fumi Tamaki (MBA 2014) could not pass up the opportunity in June 2024 to take on the challenge of improving the customer experience at the government organization that serves more Americans annually... View Details