Standard Operating Procedures - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

“Here’s a smart guy who had an actual home inspection, so why didn’t he have visibility that these systems were about to fail on him?” It’s standard practice in commercial transactions, and there also are capital reserve requirements for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

11 May 2023
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How FOMO Became a Fixture

It's rare for a day to go by when the term FOMO (short for "fear of missing out") isn't shared on TV, social media, or any other media we consume. But where did FOMO come from? In this interview, Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004), shares the genesis of the phrase, the impact... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

culminated during the January term in Italy, where students learned about the roots of capitalism and how the renowned House of Medici devised accounting standards still used today. “The original economic miracle—the model of... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?

result of a "third industrial revolution" whose origins in the United States, he says, can be traced to the leaner and meaner approach to corporate operations that was spurred by the tenfold increase in energy prices during the 1970s.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project strategy: organizing senior management approvals and support for creating a "heavyweight" team; aligning the disparate perspectives, interests, and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

operations is a big part of what YALP hopes to impart. “Typically, the public-sector lexicon can be mystifying to private-sector folks,” says Stacy Richardson, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke’s chief of staff. “When I attended YALP in 2016,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jan 2010
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James Dimon, MBA 1982

Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.A., Economics and Psychology, Tufts University, 1978 On Leadership: “Set and meet high standards of integrity, performance, and... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

it is a standard piece of the litany of management practice,” HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser told the Boston Globe. “He wanted to be lively, he wanted to be provocative, but most of all, he wanted the power of the ideas to come... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

Acquisitions department and presided over some of the largest deals transacted during the merger-crazed 1980s. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1988 as a managing director and later served as cohead of Mergers and Acquisitions, becoming a member of Morgan's View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Executive Vice President,The Seagram Company Ltd. During Ellen Marram's distinguished 28-year career in the packaged-goods industry, "growth" has always been the operative word. Whether she has focused on growing profits, expanding... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Infrastructure Is a Gateway to a ‘Resource Revolution’ BIO As business leaders, achieving stakeholder alignment is our license to operate and our best opportunity to halt the tragedy of the commons scenario playing out in climate change.... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

’80s—moving it from the city streets to the suburban shopping center, standardizing the book-buying experience, and starting the familiar race to big, bigger, and biggest, and cheap, cheaper, and cheapest. By 1980, analysts were... View Details