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Stein has been at Harvard since 2000, serving also as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, and, in 2008, as the president of the American Finance Association. Prior to Harvard, he spent ten years on the finance faculty of MIT’s Sloan School of Management...
...Killefer, 55, is a graduate of Vassar College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, where she earned a master's in business administration. She is married to Georgetown University economics professor Robert Cumby and has two teenage children...
...than we did, say, a year or two ago. That, though, has more to do with control and less to do with actual wealth. "The loss of wealth is upsetting, but it's not just the losing money that gets you down," says Dan Ariely, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and the author of Predictably Irrational. "Not being able to understand what is going on is a main driver of unhappiness as well...
...this together,'" says Jeff Van Gundy, former coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets and now an ABC/ESPN analyst. "In reality, not really. Unless your name is [nine-time title winner] Phil Jackson, [four-time title winner] Gregg Popovich, [21-year Utah Jazz coach] Jerry Sloan or ['08 champ] Doc Rivers, if you lose three games in a row, you're instantly on the hot seat. I really do believe that...
...industry's deterioration, just as it was guilty of creating an unparalleled manufacturing system decades earlier. The Detroit approach has been plan-command-control, stemming from that original control freak, Henry Ford. At GM, a management hierarchy that had been created by GM's master planner, Alfred P. Sloan, in the '20s - GM's first and most successful restructuring - was still functioning in the '80s. Management's job was to create the products, design the production system and provide solutions if there were problems. Everyone else followed orders...