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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
budgeting, management development, and performance reviews are needed to ensure timely implementation of the organization’s goals and strategy to the highest standards desired by its leadership. Selection:...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete
to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention and rehabilitation. The goal is to give people of all abilities...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Center Court
States and selects the teams for the Davis Cup, Fed Cup, Olympic, and Paralympic Games. Schwartz’s goals include upgrading the USTA National Tennis Center in New York (the Open’s home); expanding programs in the inner cities; and working...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Hopping to It
there.” Arista is doing well, thanks to its established stars along with newcomers such as Pink, Avril Lavigne, Usher, and OutKast — the latter two, along with Santana, won Grammys this year. Asked about his goals for the company, Reid...
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- 26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
explored the ways the performing arts organization pivoted to a mostly virtual season to reach its audience while completing the two-year, $140 million restoration and expansion of the former Warner Grand Theatre, now known as the Bradley...
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Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
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On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I spent a lot of time early on...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Linking Donors, Students
guests. “I am inspired and empowered by your philanthropy, and I am determined to offer a strong return on your investment,” she said, citing her future goal of launching a nonprofit arts and sports center in the Brooklyn neighborhood...
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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
- 01 Jun 2000
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Books
and creating a balanced scorecard. Finally, he demonstrates how to achieve profit-oriented goals and strategies by using diagnostic and interactive control systems, aligning performance View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
add-on that’s separate from the financial numbers–laden annual report. “To have real impact,” they write, “these separate reports need to be integrated” into a single One Report that reveals how a company is making sustainability a commitment to high View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Leslie Gold
sure that last part is still true. I give opinions about money, politics, and things in the news but a staple of the program is about how men can achieve their sexual, emotional, or practical goals with women: how to handle the wife,...
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- 06 Aug 2015
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A Wall Street Pioneer Comes Home
to be another person, getting an education.” Sherwood did just that, following through on her goal of landing a job on Wall Street by applying to various firms in her second year at HBS. She eventually landed a position at Goldman Sachs,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Making Eco Easy
vision.” Each $2 tablet makes 20 ounces of nontoxic solution that has proven cleaning power. “One of the goals is to make sure that our products perform well in third-party independent testing, and we’re...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net
putting his ideas into action. At a high level, he has led a restructuring of the organization’s all-volunteer board, creating technical and commercial committees to focus on strategy and better involve the board members in the goal of...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
distinguishing thing about these kids was their attitude and their habits — they were proactive and passionate. Their goal was not to ace the SATs but to succeed in life. More specifically, in my sample of 160 students with perfect...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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A Hollywood Backstory
identify goals, overcome obstacles, and persist until their goals are realized. That determined individuals can bring about changes big and small is reinforced in almost every movie ever made. That's an invaluable contribution that helps...
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- 07 Oct 2021
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Bringing Light to the Fight
own businesses and is now director of the Auckland International Airport and chair of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. “Measuring performance in charity is as important as in a commercial...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well,...
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