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- 04 Feb 2010
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U.S. Military Leaders Advocate Shift to Authenticity and Tolerance
- 13 Mar 2015
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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow
- 27 Feb 2012
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Reviving Entrepreneurship
- 14 Feb 2014
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Q&A: Michael Wheeler on the importance of improvising
- 14 Apr 2011
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Fail often, fail well
- 15 Oct 2018
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Venezuela’s Meltdown Creates a Nation of Desperate Capitalists
- 17 Dec 2018
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The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
tolerance for risk and responsibility, Shruti returned to India and jumped into entrepreneurship “head first, feet next.” With a startup team, she began fine-tuning plans to launch a digital platform to help local travel agents maximize... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
Oteh's bold decisions have cleaned up the Nigerian capital markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country's stock market... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
would be replaced. But instead we kept those programs, and to exploit improved technology, we added new ones. So the problem of date handling was never addressed. Now we know that an imperfection we're willing to tolerate today could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
The causes for unequal treatment, White tells us, range from outright racism to something more insidious: the unrecognized biases of otherwise broad-minded, highly educated doctors who believe at some unconscious level, for example, that African American men are more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt
world, he said, “Stars aren't going to be tolerated anymore — the focus is on a solid system, teamwork, and values.” Immelt went on to describe GE as a meritocracy, noting, “You have to link pay with performance to attract the best... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Short Takes
tolerate human rights abuses, Spar advocates that multinationals and human rights are not such strange bedfellows as once thought. Reebok, for instance, created a new production facility in Pakistan and established a system of independent... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2017
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Case Study: Moment in the Sun
someone. On the other hand, a strategy that calls for broad but shallow market penetration is likely to produce an inconsequential valuation. If the intention is to hold the company for a long time, and the tolerance for risk is high,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed space by encouraging and View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
open power pose (e.g., feet on desk, hands behind head) decreased cortisol (the stress hormone), increased testosterone (the hormone linked to power and dominance), and boosted a subject’s tolerance for risk. “Wired magazine called this a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
direct lesson about economic policy from that period for a couple of reasons. For one thing, as the country has grown richer and our capacity to deal with some of these problems has increased, our tolerance for loss of life is lower—as it... View Details