treatment with any pathology is not happening anytime soon‚ but their positive impact and usefulness in the medical field is becoming hard to deny. In the article‚ “The Magic of the Placebo”‚ author David Bjerklie attempts to explain the growing change in the scientific use of placebos and the neuroscience that supports their use. In the article the author explains the original use of the placebo as‚ “inactive controls in randomized clinical studies…” In a typical scientific experiment‚ a placebo
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These numbers were obtained though historical analysis done by HMC and third-party analysts. b) HMC has as one of its objectives to maintain the endowment’s long-term purchasing power. By focusing on real returns‚ it gives the concerned parties at Harvard a clear view over the purchasing power’s growth of the endowment. c) From Exhibit 11 we can see that domestic and foreign equity yields the same real return‚ with a slightly higher standard deviation for the latter one. This would imply that they
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Practitioner Research Review and Synthesis Seiler [1] proposes a new way to think about intergroup conflicts. Indeed‚ he argues that traditional explanations such as simple personality clashes‚ conflicting ideas and competition for resources‚ authority or power do not pass the litmus test with regards to modern conflict management theories. Seiler posits that the health of the relationship between two groups is directly related to the “energy” devoted by groups to one another. In other words‚ how
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Cipla 2011‚ Harvard Business Case‚ March 27‚ 2012 1°) Since AIDS was identified in 1982‚ various entities have been aiming at limiting the expansion of the pandemic. However each of these entities has had a different role and thus different results: * The World Health Organization has had a critical role through the coordination of the different actors involved. It has obtained significant results in terms of treatments coverage in the last few years. Its action has been completed by the UNAIDS
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Eugene Porter is a Professor at The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness‚ based at the Harvard Business School. He is generally recognized as the father of the modern strategy field. One of his great writing is “What is strategy?” published in 1996. The beginning of the article raises a mistake of Operational Effectiveness for Strategy that many companies had suffered for almost two decades. In the article‚ Operational Effectiveness means performing similar activities better than rivals perform
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TWO JOURNAL ARTICLES - CRITIQUE The two journal articles which I critique have in common the construct of humor (spelled in both international journals as humour). I will examine humor in the first article as a construct. It is utilized as a tool‚ as a component of therapy but I will examine the very basic underlying nature of humor as a construct and as a phenomenon that can be appropriately and adequately utilized in a gestalt modality (particularly tied to existing gestalt therapy tools). In
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introduced “contextual” paid listings‚ which were advertisements on web pages‚ which were correlated to the nature of the advertisement. We can therefore see how much Google gives importance to innovation: in fact Google keeps innovating its own business models‚ not only creating a highly effective revenue generator but also a better experience for users. Focus on users is in fact also very important for Google. Google puts users
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Case Study: The Fashion Channel 1. Define the segmentation scenarios considered by Dana Wheeler and discuss the pros and cons of each scenario. In the HBS Fashion Channel case‚ Dana Wheeler considered 3 different market segmentation scenarios. Various market research firms had divided viewers into 4 distinct groups: “Fashionistas”‚ “Planners and Shoppers”‚ “Situationalists”‚ and “Basics”. These four groups were comprised of a mix of consumers with a plethora of demographics‚ all with specific
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Background John Amasi is the Director of Production and Engineering at RL Wolfe‚ “a $350M privately held plastic pipe manufacturer headquartered in Houston‚ Texas” (Gavin & Collins‚ 2009). John is Director of two companies soon to be three and is looking to implement Self-Directed Teams‚ (SDTs) into RL Wolfe’s third company which will be called Corpus Christy. RL Wolfe’s other two companies are unionized and are facing many issues. Amasi has done much research and has learned that Self-Directed Teams
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The Harvard Management Co. and Inflation-Protected Bonds TIPS and Risk Management: How can you combine regular (nominal) Treasuries and TIPS to build a hedge portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk‚ but not to real interest risk? To hedge bond portfolio that has exposure to inflation risk‚ one could simultaneously take long positions in TIPS and short positions in nominal Treasuries with equivalent terms to maturity. To be specific‚ if the inflation increases‚ TIPS are likely to outperform
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