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- 01 Apr 2002
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Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields worked for IBM in View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
failure of the free-market system, but more so the result of decades of misguided government policies that interfered with the functioning of that system.” Nonetheless, the panel’s two Republicans call for reforms, including taking Fannie...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
better than the risk for getting into the Internet." Startup Smarts Previous work experience is often the critical factor in helping an aspiring entrepreneur make the judgment calls necessary to spot and develop a good business...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
share to around $1 a share in two years. With the company’s survival in question, Houghton was called back as CEO in 2002. This time, leadership required lifting spirits, not dropping the hammer. He exhorted his employees (“We will...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ice-cream business, they set their sights low. “Originally, we thought maybe we could become the leading ice-cream company in the San Francisco Bay Area,” recalls Rogers. “We had no sense of geographic expansion.” The pair turned out to be savvy managers. Within four...
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- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
high-performing salesmanship, right? And so then the theory behind that could be that we know that people that are somewhat inattentive tend to be more creative. So maybe that's why, because there's a creative element to the sales...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,...
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- 04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Hanna: The Kentucky Derby is often called the most exciting two minutes in sports. And I've always wanted to go myself, but have never been. Can you give a sense of some of the sights and smells and sensations of that day, just as someone...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
inspire curiosity in my kids and read to them every day, I call that a win. Peter: The first thing I’ve learned is that you have to be intentional by using calendars and Outlook or Google docs to stay on top of everything. Whether it’s an...
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- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator....
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving that they call “radical...
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
it’s much easier to do than I ever expected.” (photo by Christopher Dolan/The Scranton Times-Tribune) Cognetti has been called a “micromanager,” a “bulldog,” and worse by board members and the district superintendent, but she doesn’t seem...
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