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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for anything, so you have to navigate a more ambiguous path—one with fewer role models and fewer people to help you. The problem builds on itself: underrepresentation in the fast-track, post-college jobs that feed into the B-schools...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
through resolution. In all, the ETS team shot 35 hours of footage. The final case, which was first taught in October 2014 to 940 first-year MBA students, includes just under an hour of video. “Multimedia cases won’t wholly replace traditional cases,” says Buell, who...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
organization. If you have fallen into any of these traps yourself, you may be sabotaging your own career. If there are high-need-for-achievement types in your organization, are there ways to help them get out of these traps? A key factor to keep in mind is that View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
principles: putting patient care decisions, tasks, and workflows first; separating complicated, ambiguous diseases and conditions from those that are understood; ensuring that infrastructure and practices such as the mix of staff,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
where the rules are ambiguous (as in structured finance transactions) and the risks to reputation high (as in opaque financial reporting); Continuous monitoring of senior executives for evidence of what sociologist Philip Selznick...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
mold, and a cow’s breeding status. “The entrepreneurial bug has definitely bitten me,” says Puz. “Taking an idea and turning it into reality is a difficult, ambiguous process. But it’s one of the most exciting, gratifying things I’ve ever...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities...
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Garry Emmons