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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Money and Mortals

Le Grand Diable d'Argent Patron de la Finance Hand-colored etching, artist unknown (France, early 19th century) COURTESY BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In more than 1,000 woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs from the 16th to the 19th century, Baker... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 08 Jan 2021
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Mortality rate for Black babies is cut dramatically when they’re delivered by Black doctors, researchers say

  • 24 Mar 2014
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Don't Fear the Reaper

Keywords: succession planning; work/life balance; death; mortality
  • 07 Sep 2018
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Exercise, Eat Well, Help Others: Altruism's Surprisingly Strong Health Impact

  • 06 May 2013
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What's the Common Ingredient for Team Success in Surgery, Banking, Software, Airlines, and Basketball?

  • 12 Nov 2014
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A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

  • 26 Oct 2015
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Exposure To Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account For Inequality In Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups

  • 01 Sep 2023
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Bless this Stress

mortal in search of strategies to live better and longer. Instead of a magic hammer, the actor relies on guidance from a series of experts like Akinola, an organizational psychologist and Columbia Business School professor. She’s here to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

just two birthdays. “If you made it to your first birthday you were probably going to have a life, considering that infant mortality rates were so high,” he explains. “And the 60th was, basically, you’ve had a good life.” Having reached... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
  • 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

behind when he’s gone. For hundreds of years, he says, Koreans celebrated just two birthdays. “If you made it to your first birthday you were probably going to have a life, considering that infant mortality rates were so high,” he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight

Zealand government instituted free breast cancer screenings for women ages 50 to 64, later extended to 45 to 69. The foundation is currently working to extend those screenings to women up to the age of 74. Data shows that access to these free screenings has reduced the... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2021
  • News

Bringing Light to the Fight

that access to these free screenings has reduced the breast cancer mortality rate in the country by 34 percent, says Smyth, who was awarded a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth for services to Women and Governance, in... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
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Courage and Hope in Africa

the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference

women’s health in the United States, which has the worst rate of maternal mortality of any industrialized nation. Women of color are four times more likely to die in the delivery room. “People theorize that 50 percent to 75 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

evidence has shown that social behavior—including helping others—improves our mental and physical health and extends life expectancy. One study on mortality following 7,000 people found that the risk of death among men and women with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic

obituary and Sheryl’s reflections on his unexpected death. That comes close to Marcus Aurelius thinking about his own mortality in Meditations; Augustine’s account of his mother’s death in Confessions; an extract from the historian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?

Watson’s superhuman powers can send mixed messages. Technology, once welcomed for freeing people from drudgery and backbreaking labor, is so powerful and its innovations so swift and relentless that mere mortals have a hard time keeping... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal

racial divide in cancer mortality rates. “We as a society have the capability to provide much greater care,” he says. “It’s a matter of marshaling focus and resources. There is an enormous amount of good that can be done.” O’Neal is still... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Merrill Lynch; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jan 2003
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Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

costs. Mortality rates for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, asthma, and various infections have been reduced between 40 and 70 percent over the last forty years thanks in large part to more effective and safer drugs. We need to do a... View Details
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