Archive for Winter 2007
February 27, 2007

Branding: Your Most Important Investment

Don Sexton explains the complex yet measurable relationship between a company's branding efforts and its shareholder value.

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February 27, 2007

What Really Happens at Mixers?

An innovative experiment shows how we try -- with varying degrees of success -- to meet new people.

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February 06, 2007

Melding the Minds of Marketers and Engineers

A method for designing products that appeals to two groups with very different perspectives.

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February 06, 2007

A New Way of Educating Our Future Healthcare Leaders

Cliff Cramer, who directs the School’s new Program in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management, explains how a multidisciplinary business education can help mend an increasingly convoluted and flawed industry.

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February 06, 2007

A Global Look at Environmental Disclosures

Do laws or the marketplace motivate firms to release information about their behavior?

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January 18, 2007

New York City’s Trans Fat Ban

Nachum Sicherman, who has researched cost-benefit analysis in medical decision making, delves into the economic angles of the city’s controversial public health regulation.

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January 18, 2007

A Just-In-Time Approach to Medical Care

A mathematical model helps doctors offer every patient a same-day appointment.

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January 18, 2007

Listen and Learn

Do investors learn more from advice or by observing the actions of others?

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February 27, 2006

Embrace your mess: Q&A with Eric Abrahamson

In his new book, Eric Abrahamson lambastes our profit-devouring, time-wasting obsession with order and revels in having achieved an optimal state of messiness.

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