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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
to pay anything they want for a product, a rational consumer should pay nothing, and that’s not a business model anyone can sustain. So how much do people tend to pay? First, most consumers pay more than zero, but beyond that our data... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
Transformed by the excesses of the 1990s, “the idea of success seems to have wandered far afield into an expectation of limitless expansion,” Nash and Stevenson write. “As the ante gets higher, our experience of success has been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
taught to analyze the likelihood of various consequences, these students learn that the best decisions are those that minimize expected costs and maximize expected benefits," the authors write. The best... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
the most rational question in the world to ask is, is business playing a positive role here? If not, why not? And how can it? April White: Lisa, you've raised a lot of really important issues that business can be engaged in, but we're... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations), the United States can expect at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
expecting anyone to take hold of it, and then someone does, in a warm, accepting way.” The experience solidified Massie's beliefs in compassion, social justice, and the importance of serving others. In 1978, Massie enrolled at Yale... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
has delivered more than 2 million units of PPE since mid-May. “I hope that a vaccine will come out and we can declare mission accomplished, but until we know that COVID is really under control, we expect to be here to supply anybody who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
isn’t that different from a for-profit company, he adds, except “we don’t have rational capital markets in the nonprofit world. In the private sector, if you do well, people run to you with capital, hoping to get a piece of your increased... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
just be the product of some kind of anxiety of unknown origins. Rational or not, if people begin to become pessimistic about their economic future and the economy in general, one of the first things they typically do is start scaling back... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
"Today's top management needs to move beyond its focus on strategy that defines a rational product-market position to a sense of purpose that captivates employees' attention and commitment," Bartlett asserts. Managers, he says, "need to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry