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01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective Curriculum and Executive... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

neighborhoods don't have the potential to succeed or aren't capable. It's much more about decades of underinvestment and a lack of attention to what we say we're all about as a society—namely, that no matter where you come from, you have... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA

value-added by the MBA degree. Those questions, and the desire for greater attention to organizational realities, global perspectives, and leadership skills, have been getting more vigorous and louder. Second, this is very much a time for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

measures,” says Sahlman. Despite their evident shortcomings, even the harshest critics acknowledge that business school rankings are here to stay. No doubt, students, alumni, and the schools themselves will continue to pay attention to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

1981, dba 1995), professor (ret.), Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts Although she never seeks attention for herself, Irene Rosenfeld is on just about every "most powerful" list and her accomplishments in leading Kraft Foods... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Straight to the Heart

also looking for more personal attention to help them sort through that volume. Some people say that outsourcing your love life deletes romance. Not at all. The romance isn’t in the search. The romance is in the results. You offer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; marriage; social media; matchmaking; Personal Services

01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.

success. “For the longest time, creativity was considered the work of a genius operating on her own. The cult of the designer held sway, with little attention being paid to the system that supports the creative genius,” Khaire observes.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

student life. "Think about our mission," Clark invited the attentive audience, "and think about this world. Our mission is to educate leaders for that world." To accomplish this, Clark explained, the School is pursuing three important... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

days, it seems premature to speak of closure and legacies. The long-awaited moment is at hand, and the world is turning its attention to Atlanta. Let the Games begin! "We'll be ready," says Frazier. Raw Ground and Givebacks Arthur C.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

others feel that the growing attention to the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived and structured. As Peter Vaill notes, social and economic conditions in recent years have... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

unused in villages ravaged by disease, and boxes of mosquito nets that could slow the spread of malaria go unopened. The problem is that, sometimes, not enough attention is paid to what motivates the target population to use medicines or... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the Financial Times. In founding his real estate investment firm, he and his partners paid particular View Details

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