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	<title>Improvisations</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Twitter Lists Matter</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/04/twitter-lists/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/04/twitter-lists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean M. Brown</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[crowdsourcing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social networks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[user innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Twitter debuted a new feature that lets you group your followers, Twitter calls it Lists. To learn Twitter List basics, Josh Catone&#8217;s Mashable post HOW TO: Use Twitter Lists is a good place to start. 
Why do lists of Twitter accounts matter? 
Twitter Lists are an efficient way to find Twitter-people that you don&#8217;t know, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Talks, Many Provocative Ideas</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/03/two-talks-many-provocative-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/03/two-talks-many-provocative-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[management innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we reported on the BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit. We noted that videos for the talks would be posted and that happened yesterday. Here are two well worth your time.
Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, talked about fixing MBA education so it no longer produces, as The Economist calls them, “jargon-spewing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Way To Think About Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/02/a-new-way-to-think-about-sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/02/a-new-way-to-think-about-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Smart managers are wary of epiphanies. &#8220;Suddenly, everything looked different&#8221; should be the last line of a short story, not a report from the management front. But sometimes, something makes you look at a matteryou&#8217;ve paid a lot of attention to in a different way. Even if you look at everything differently for only a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pile: a New Weekly Feature on Improvisations</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/01/the-pile-a-new-weekly-feature-on-improvisations/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/11/01/the-pile-a-new-weekly-feature-on-improvisations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Pile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the few pleasures of going on the Internet on a Sunday is reading Paul Kedrosky&#8217;s &#8220;Weekend Reading.&#8221; In his column, Kedrosky regularly summarizes the business week past, hints at the news to come in the coming week, and lists articles to read to explain what it all means.
Welcome to &#8220;The Pile.&#8221; Inspired by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dangers of Untested Assumptions</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/26/the-dangers-of-unchecked-assumptions/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/26/the-dangers-of-unchecked-assumptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha E. Mangelsdorf</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[business plans]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intrapreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[managing innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[new product development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Business Insight]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Columbia Business School]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corporate new ventures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corporate planning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[discovery-driven growth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ian Macmillan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rita Gunther McGrath]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wharton School]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2482</guid>
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Why do established corporations&#8217; new ventures often fail? The new issue of Business Insight, MIT Sloan Management Review&#8217;s collaboration with The Wall Street Journal, includes an interview with Rita Gunther McGrath about problems traditional business planning processes encounter when dealing with uncertain new ventures.
McGrath, an associate professor at Columbia Business School, explains that one pitfall is to &#8220;take the untested assumptions that underlie the [business] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, at MIT, declares clean energy key to global economic leadership</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/23/obama-in-speech-at-mit-declares-clean-energy-key-to-global-economic-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/23/obama-in-speech-at-mit-declares-clean-energy-key-to-global-economic-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha E. Mangelsdorf</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[public policy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[clean energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The nations of the world are in a &#8220;peaceful competition&#8221; to develop the energy technologies that will power the 21st century  &#8211; and the nation that wins that competition will be the nation that will lead the global economy, U.S. President Barack Obama told an audience at MIT today. &#8220;And I want America to be that nation. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama to Speak on Sustainability at MIT &#8212; Watch Live</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/22/obama-to-speak-on-sustainability-at-mit-listen-live/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/22/obama-to-speak-on-sustainability-at-mit-listen-live/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[new product development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On October 23, President Barack Obama will deliver at MIT &#8220;an address about American leadership on clean energy.&#8221; This blog will cover the talk, of course, and you can watch it live, October 23 at noon. If there is any problem with the stream, as there sometimes are with live events, MIT World will post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Thinking: What To Read After Our Special Report</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/20/design-thinking-what-to-read-after-our-special-report/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/20/design-thinking-what-to-read-after-our-special-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[design thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while back we published a special report on design thinking in which design luminaries such as Edward Tufte, Donald Norman, and Nancy Duarte and Garr Reynolds gave practical advice on how managers can do their jobs better by thinking like designers.
Our interest in the topic didn&#8217;t end when we published the report; we still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Vulnerable a Leader Should You Be?</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/19/how-vulnerable-a-leader-should-you-be/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/19/how-vulnerable-a-leader-should-you-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With its reporting of how political power is wielded in Washington, the only leadership lessons you&#8217;re likely to get from The Washington Post most of the time are case studies of what not to do. But the website&#8217;s video interviews with business leaders occasionally offer some positive models, too.
When we reported on the BIF-5 Collaboration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Business of Sustainability: Our Editor Speaks</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/15/the-business-of-sustainability-our-editor-speaks/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/15/the-business-of-sustainability-our-editor-speaks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next month, MIT Sloan Management Review editor-in-chief Michael S. Hopkins will speak at the Opportunity Green business conference at UCLA. He&#8217;ll be expanding on our recent special report on the business of sustainability. For a hint of what he&#8217;ll discuss, there&#8217;s an interview with him on the conference website. Some highlights:
One of the most baffling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the Startup Bootcamp at MIT</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/12/lessons-from-the-startup-bootcamp-at-mit/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/12/lessons-from-the-startup-bootcamp-at-mit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha E. Mangelsdorf</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[high-tech start-ups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business models]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Theobald]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[high-tech startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Justin.TV]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ken Zolot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Vogt]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robin Chase]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[starting a business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Startup Bootcamp]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[technology entrepreneurs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[technology startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vecna]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web startups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Xobni]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zipcar]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There was lots of entepreneurial energy in the room at MIT&#8217;s Kresge Auditorium today &#8212; as a sizable crowd gathered in the morning for a free daylong &#8220;Startup Bootcamp&#8221; full of lessons from technology entrepreneurs.  Here are some insights from just a few of the day&#8217;s speakers:

MIT&#8217;s Ken Zolot offered a set of questions to ask about an invention when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening in on the Real-Time Web</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/08/listening-in-on-the-real-time-web/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/08/listening-in-on-the-real-time-web/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean M. Brown</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[social networks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your customers are talking about you. Can you hear them?  Trust Agents, a new book by noted bloggers and social media consultants Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, is a practical guide to learning how to improve your business using the web in its 2.0, real-time form.
The real-time web encompasses social media sites such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Day for Ideas (#BIF5)</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/08/a-great-day-for-ideas-bif5/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/08/a-great-day-for-ideas-bif5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[collective intelligence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design thinking]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[open innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had the great pleasure of attending the first day of the BIF-5 Collaborative Innovation Summit, held in Providence, Rhode Island, by the Business Innovation Factory. That&#8217;s a lot of jargon for just the names of a conference and its sponsoring organization, but more to the point is the tag line for the event: &#8220;A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Some Companies Benefit More from IT Investments than Others</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/07/why-some-companies-benefit-more-from-it-investments-than-others/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/07/why-some-companies-benefit-more-from-it-investments-than-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha E. Mangelsdorf</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[managing information technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Adam Saunders]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[digital organization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Erik Brynolfsson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[information technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wired for Innovation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On average, investments in information technology are associated with greater productivity for companies &#8212; but why do some companies get greater productivity benefits from IT than others? That was one of the questions MIT Sloan Professor Erik Brynjolfsson addressed at a presentation at the MIT Center for Digital Business today.  (Brynjolfsson and Wharton&#8217;s Adam Saunders have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Management Lessons of Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/02/the-management-lessons-of-las-vegas/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/02/the-management-lessons-of-las-vegas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[management innovation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where do you find inspiration? From great management thinkers like Peter Drucker? Political or military leaders? Great artists or musicians? Or, maybe, a gaudy wedding chapel on the strip in Las Vegas?
That last one probably doesn&#8217;t rank high on your list. But maybe it should.
In 1972, our neighbors at MIT Press published Learning from Las [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fall 2009 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/01/fall-2009-issue-of-mit-sloan-management-review/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/10/01/fall-2009-issue-of-mit-sloan-management-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[MIT Sloan Management Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Today we&#8217;re publishing the fall issue of MIT Sloan Management Review. We lead with our special report on sustainability as a competitive advantage, which includes these elements:
Like it or not, it&#8217;s changing management. Here&#8217;s how
Five companies, five strategies, five transformations
How Ray Anderson became the leading sustainability CEO
Findings from the first annual Business of Sustainability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Thinking About Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/09/30/design-thinking-about-sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/09/30/design-thinking-about-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jimmy Guterman</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[design thinking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[new product development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday on our Twitter feed, we directed readers to our special report on design thinking and noted that a TEDtalk by design thinking icon Tim Brown had just been posted.

There was other Tim Brown-related news yesterday that&#8217;s relevant to two of our favorite subjects here: design thinking and sustainability. Turns out Brown&#8217;s firm, IDEO, launched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Financial Crisis Fallout Explained &#8212; on Video</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/09/29/lawrence-fish-and-simon-johnson-on-mit-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael S. Hopkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday we offered selected pearls from a great conversation between banking honcho Larry Fish and MIT Sloan economist (and leading financial crisis commentator) Simon Johnson. 
Now we can share full sound and video.
As noted Friday, there&#8217;s provocative matter here about what needs changing in the banking system &#8212; and what changes are likely to happen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating Offshoring&#8217;s Impact</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/09/28/debating-offshorings-impact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha E. Mangelsdorf</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Too often, discussions of contemporary economic issues end up either overly simplified for popular consumption &#8212; or too jargony and technical to be followed by anyone but economists. A new book, Offshoring of American Jobs: What Response from U.S. Economic Policy? avoids both extremes &#8212; and instead finds an informative, nuanced middle ground on an important issue. This brief but thought-provoking book offers insights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Bashing, Courtesy of a Banker</title>
		<link>http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/2009/09/25/bank-bashing-courtesy-of-a-banker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael S. Hopkins</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sloanreview.mit.edu/improvisations/?p=2280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two of us at MIT Sloan Management Review grabbed good seats at yesterday’s MIT Sloan campus-event headliner: a downwind reflection on fallout from the financial crisis. Featured attraction: a high-level round of bank bashing, with a high-level banker on hand to help do it. OK, it wasn&#8217;t only banks that were bashed. Ungenerous attention was [...]]]></description>
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