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- What Were They Thinking? by Jeffrey Pfeffer |Book Brief
- The book “What Were They Thinking?” argues that most managers fail because they diligently follow common management practices that are sometimes flawed to the core. Author Jeffrey Pfeffer challenges managers to throw out conventional wisdom and to think harder and more strategically about what’s right for their companies.
- Videos 2007-12-06
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- LEADING ARTICLE EDUCATION The conventional wisdom is that, when it comes to education, the old ways are the best. In many minds that equates to learning by rote, long hand, fat textbooks, and most definitely no computers. But, as with much conventional wisdom,...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- HighQuest Partners Releases White Paper "How $100 Oil Really Gave Us $6.00 Corn"
- TOPSFIELD, Mass. -- HighQuest Partners, a strategic advisory and management consulting firm, today issued a white paper entitled "Pricing Dynamics: How $100 Oil Really Gave Us $6.00 Corn" that explains how the prices of corn and vegetable oils have become linked to the price of petroleum through biofuels. ...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Prudential Study Finds Women's Retirement Concerns Transcend Generation
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Whether they're Millennials, GenXers, Boomers or Matures, American women are actively considering their future retirement and financial security--countering conventional wisdom that retirement is an "over 50" issue, according to a study issued today by Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU). A surprising 36% of Millennials (ages 25-29) and...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Annual Conference on Vaccine Research to Highlight Not Only Health Benefits But Also Economic Gains
- BETHESDA, Md., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Vaccines don't just keep children healthy, they also lead to more productive adult workers who can earn higher wages and save more money, according to Dr. David E. Bloom, a labor economist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bloom, who...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- Summer campaign guide: it's hard to predict anything in this very unpredictable presidential contest, but here's what to watch for over the next few months
- Conventional wisdom was that this year's presidential nominating contests would be decided by February. Three months later, Republicans have settled on their candidate, Senator John McCain of Arizona, but the Democrats are still at it, with Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York trying...
- Articles 2008-05-05
- COVER STORY: Political beliefs - Censored at work?
- Depending on the sort of friends you have, your preferred prime minister might be a great dinner party topic. But what are the protocols when it comes to workplace chatter? Conventional wisdom is clear. Talk about politics ranks alongside sex and religion as a no-no in most...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Thumbs up for Chiefs, Dolphins
- Draft winners, losers Scanning the conventional wisdom Is it time for Herm Edwards to go to the head of the class? Based on a sampling across the Internet, the Kansas City Chiefs were the big winners of this year's NFL draft. Netting LSU defensive...
- Articles 2008-04-28
- Ed Wallace Deflates the Hype on Oil and Gas
- Award-Winning Commentator's BusinessWeek Columns on Energy Challenge Conventional Wisdom by Washington and the Mainstream Media, Attract Widespread Readership DALLAS -- Groundbreaking reporting on energy by Ed Wallace, an award-winning business journalist and broadcaster in Dallas-Fort Worth, has thrust Wallace into the forefront of the national discussion over oil...
- Articles 2008-04-28
- Elissalde manages to cramp Geraghty's style in the sunshine
- England tiro runs himself into ground as French limp home It is human nature to wish that big matches - semi-finals and finals - are contested at full stadiums by two squads of fit players in their pomp, but this was not so much the survival of...
- Articles 2008-04-27
- Quality Care, Not Number of Procedures, Determines Bypass Results
- Hospitals that perform fewer cardiac bypass operations don't have more deaths following the procedure than hospitals that handle a greater number of bypasses, a new study says. This finding contradicts conventional wisdom, which has assumed that hospitals that do more cardiac bypass operations have better results, with fewer patient deaths....
- Articles 2008-04-22
- Golden years are good years
- For as much as people complain about their aches and pains, a new study has shown that -- contrary to conventional wisdom -- the twilight years are actually pretty sunny. The study was the brainchild of Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. His findings show that...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- Sixers defense will have to run the Pistons' offense
- Conventional wisdom says teams can't run so much in the NBA playoffs, that the games tend to come down to gritty halfcourt battles. The Pistons are subscribers to that premise, living off their methodical, efficient approach, forcing opponents to pick their poison. The 76ers, though, thrived all season on their...
- Articles 2008-04-19
- Seasonal Flu Outbreaks Start in Asia: Study
- Each year, new strains of virus that produce seasonal flu epidemics start in East Asia and Southeast Asia and then spread around rest of the world, researchers report. And by focusing on new flu strains emerging in Asia, scientists may be able to improve their forecast of seasonal flu strains...
- Articles 2008-04-16
- Revolutionary Line of CleanWell Products Kills 99.99% of Germs on Contact and Are Poison-Free
- E-Wire -- CleanWell is the onlyTriclosan-free antibacterial soap. The recent studies and articles abouttoxic antibacterials found in many everyday soaps and cleaners havescientists and consumers alarmed about the long-term health consequences( www.newsweek.com/id/105588 and http://www.breastcancerfund.org ). Thetoxic, hormone-disrupting chemicals Triclosan and Triclocarban are found inover 76 percent of all...
- Articles 2008-04-16
- The Retirement Income Industry Association Defines Timely and Relevant Job Description for Financial Advisors
- The financial advisor of the future must gobeyond today's conventional wisdom to favor a more complete risk managementframework that better recognizes the retirement income needs of millions ofretirees, contends The Retirement Income Industry Association RIIA. According to RIIA's Chairman and Executive Director Francois Gadenne, RIIAhas developed a job description for...
- Articles 2008-04-14
- You won't guess who's the bad guy of ID theft
- Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity By Byron Acohido and Jon Swartz Union Square Press, 297 pages, $19.95 --- "Identity theft" has become a well-known term in the...
- Articles 2008-04-14
- MLK Memorial Edition
- CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WATCH After 40 years, Martin Luther King’s assassination still hurts. Will new discussion of race relations in America last? Bush: down Is he still in office? Treated abroad and at home as if he’s irrelevant. Iraq: down “When the Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand...
- Articles 2008-04-14
- Lungless frog could shed light on evolution: scientist
- JAKARTA AFP — The discovery of a rare species of Indonesian frog that breathes without lungs could shed light on how evolution works, a scientist said Friday. Dissection of the frog, which was found on Borneo last August, showed it breathed entirely through its skin, biologist David Bickford...
- Articles 2008-04-11
- Attention deficit on boys
- Last week, Massachusetts educators were delighted to discover that their state's eighth-graders ranked third in the nation on the national writing exam. Then they read the fine print: Twice as many girls as boys earned proficiency ratings. At least in Massachusetts the top educators noticed. Similar gender gaps...
- Articles 2008-04-10
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