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APRIL 5, 2015

Watson Fellowship Twitter University of Chicago''s Harris School of Public Policy'

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pret a Manger summarizes its personnel policies (from Demand, Adrian Slywotzky) ————— So American Airlines has filed for bankruptcy (Chapter 11 – the kind that lets them keep flying). “We hire happy people and teach them to make sandwiches.” Is anyone surprised?

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

She is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy teaching the Arts of Communication at the Harvard Kennedy School. Holly Weeks publishes, teaches, and consults on communications issues.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

In Managing the Oval Office by David Rothkopf (David Rothkopf is the chief executive of the FP Group, the publisher of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace). For Inauguration Day, we are reading a lot about President Obama and his second term. In this piece from the [.].

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JANUARY 11, 2013

He was previously Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as Research Director for Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership. Pittinsky is Professor of Technology and Society at SUNY Stony Brook and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

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JUNE 12, 2013

War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life Wendell Cox NewGeography.com'

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Well-meaning managers often implement new policies only to find that in addition to what they envisioned, they’ve also created problems. [.]. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Unintended consequences are common in business.

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APRIL 3, 2011

To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * Policy makers from the government of [.].

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OCTOBER 8, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Joanna Cound (Managing Director, Government Affairs and Public Policy, BlackRock) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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JULY 24, 2016

David Evans and Dick Schmalensee are among the early pioneers in the research of “multi-sided markets” and the economic principles that inform the unique design of business models, pricing and incentive structures, and product design for these platform-based businesses. David is an economist, business adviser, and entrepreneur.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Daniel Korschun is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. He works with companies to develop innovative CSR practices that generate value for both the company and society.

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APRIL 6, 2012

I expect Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow to be among the most misunderstood books in recent years. A careless reading may suggest that he endorses intuition as the basis of sound judgment. In fact, he endorses enlightened intuition based on extensive and relevant prior experience. Perhaps diagnoses in an ER offer the best example, [.].

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MAY 26, 2013

Bob''s blog entries "5 signs a workplace is family-friendly" "What Top Professionals Need to Know About Answering Job Interview Questions Amy Levin-Epstein CBS MoneyWatch AOLHealth.com Babble.com Boston Globe Details.com Family-friendly workplaces are pushing the policies Family-friendly workplaces have female executives Forward Options Glamour Heather (..)

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DECEMBER 30, 2012

Gregory Unruh is a thought leader dedicated to sustainability innovation for business and the world. An Associate Professor of Sustainability at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, he is a noted writer, speaker and educator in the areas of corporate social responsibility, environmental management and innovation management.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article, featured in The McKinsey Quarterly published by McKinsey & Company. It includes an excerpt from Daniel Kahneman‘s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. To read the complete article, check out the abundance of other free resources, obtain information about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click [.].

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Here is the introduction to an interview of Sylvia Nasar by Rob Norton as part of “The Thought Leader Interview” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work (Memo to the CEO) Steve Steinhilber Harvard Business Press (2008) This is one of the titles in the “Memo to the CEO&# series published by Harvard Business Press, each less than 200 pages in length and superbly produced. In fact, none is a “memo&# or written solely [.].

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

I have just received this exciting announcement from Cynthia Rabe and am pleased to share it with you. As we proceed through the so-called “Age of Information,” an age that seems to be more like a blizzard each day, some sources are much more valuable than others. The Atlantic magazine offers an excellent case in [.].

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MAY 2, 2011

Once again, McKinsey & Company offers (at no cost) an exceptionally valuable resource, in this instance Eric Schmidt‘s conversation with McKinsey director James Manyika about business culture, technology, and social issues.

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APRIL 9, 2011

Here is an excerpt of an article that caught my eye, written by Leonard Cassuto and recently published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 20, 2011).

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JUNE 8, 2011

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition Lawrence A. Cunningham The Cunningham Group (2008) Note: Cunningham is a contributor as well as editor of the essays that Buffet wrote over the years, many of them included in Berkshire Hathaway’s annual reports as “Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter.”

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APRIL 12, 2011

Here is another excellent article featured online by the Drucker Exchange (DX) within the Drucker Institute at Claremont Business University.

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APRIL 16, 2011

Here is an article written by John Baldoni for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * If you ever find yourself having to persuade others of the goodness of [.].

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AUGUST 6, 2011

Here is an excerot from an article written by Alaina Love and featured by the BloombergBusinessweek website (August 6, 2011) To check out all the resources, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Completing ethics training is just the beginning of an introspective process U.S.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Joan Steinberg (Managing Director and Global Head of Philanthropy) written by Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Here is the introduction to an interview of Sylvia Nasar by Rob Norton as part of “The Thought Leader Interview” series featured by strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Here is an article written by Wayne Turmel for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * The German general Carl von Clausewitz famously said, “no plan survives the first [.].

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AUGUST 22, 2011

Sara Mosle’s vigorous review of Steven Brill‘s book, Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools, appears in The New York Times‘ Book Review section (August 21, 2011).

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MARCH 10, 2011

Here is a recent article in the “Industry News&# series posted online at Talent Management magazine’s website (February 14, 2011).

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APRIL 21, 2011

The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management s Changing the Way We Do Business Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert John Wiley & Sons (2011) Finally, in a single volume, just about all you need to know about results-driven knowledge management According to Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert, “this book tells you how leading organizations [.].

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AUGUST 23, 2011

McKinsey & Company and The Atlantic magazine are co-sponsors of an especially important series of responses to this question: “What’s the single best idea to jumpstart job creation?&# Here is Michelle H. Rhee‘s response. She is Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of D.C.

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JULY 19, 2011

To their great credit, McKinsey & Company and The Atlantic magazine are co-sponsors of an especially important series of responses to this question: “What’s the single best idea to jumpstart job creation?” Here is Michelle A. Rhee‘s response. She is Founder and CEO of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of D.C.

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JULY 14, 2011

Here is an article written by Daniel Margolis for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * The jobs numbers for June came out Friday and, as you may have already [.].

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