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- 01 Sep 2014
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All For One
The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
five-minute video on your smartphone while waiting in line at the post office or riding the bus to school? No friction at all. This new reality has not gone unnoticed at traditional networks like the Disney/ABC Television Group, where...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World - A Scorecard for Home and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
“operational effectiveness”— merely constituted table stakes, the minimum required to keep you in the game. Slicing the Data Ever Finer With management consulting now several decades old, Kiechel finds that despite its shortcomings, the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
risky start-up founded by some kid who left Harvard early. “High tech” had a slightly different meaning: Nice offices had big IBM Selectric II typewriters featuring a prancing steel ball. Fax machines were cutting-edge, and we were among...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
I’ve always loved taking an active role in growth enterprises. Working on companies like JetBlue and Office Depot was fun, interesting, and fulfilling. Now I feel like I’m back in those early days but on the nonprofit side, helping...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
“What happens when the algorithms make a mistake on someone’s credit score, and because of that they don’t get a loan? How do you protect against bias? How do you regulate data access and ownership? These are critical leadership questions...
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Deborah Blagg
- 17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor at the University of Ottawa and a visionary founder of The Prosperity Project; Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008), founding partner of Springbank Collective; and Michelle Banik, a human resources consultant and former Chief People View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She built out the team, including...
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- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named...
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- 05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
you put some context around those effects? What do the data show about how significant that's been or how long lasting it might be? Sanchali Pal: Overall, it's certainly been true that the pandemic and the resulting quarantine has...
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- 09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Profiles from the Class of 2006
Photos by Webb Chappell At first glance, the MBA Class of 2006 is an interesting collection of data points: 897 students from 67 countries, 34 percent women, 32 percent international, and 21 percent minorities. But look again, deeper this...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
first annual Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership to IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA '65) and Levi Strauss CEO Robert D. Haas (MBA '68). The two chief executives received the newly established award on behalf of their companies'...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan
restaurant investor Lena Goldberg; visiting lecturer and restaurant veteran Michael Kaufman; Christian Charnaux (MBA 2006), chief growth officer at Inspire Brands, with more than 11,100 Arby’s, Buffalo Wild...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
the deepest point in each ocean. Jamieson laughed, Vescovo recalls. No one really knew, not for sure. As a result, Vescovo took steps to equip the Pressure Drop with one of the most advanced sonar systems in use on a civilian ship; and Jamieson became the View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Up Against The Firewall
handling, storage, and protection of data and infrastructure configurations. It’s also important to establish crisis management procedures, responses, and responsibilities in the event of an attack. Despite the mounting danger posed by...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
chief talent officer at Netflix. You won’t find empty values statements on the walls of a Netflix conference room, not on McCord’s watch. As she helped to build Netflix into a media giant, McCord articulated...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
basically the next China. Increasingly, people will have to know about it. At the same time, 77 percent of newsrooms in America, according to Pew, are non-Hispanic white; most of the South Asian bureau chiefs at the Wall Street Journal...
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