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- 01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us
Clayton Christensen asked me to be his chief of staff about four years after I received my undergraduate degree. I recognized the opportunity would be life-changing but felt highly inadequate, having spent the majority of my career at...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z
And purpose was considered part of your personal life, not part of your professional life.” The preferences and predilections of Gen Z might not matter quite so much if the labor market weren’t so tight and if Gen Zers weren’t so...
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- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
market and sell products. The Moral Leader uses great literature to teach great leadership, a dream of a class for this English major. We studied how great leaders—fictional characters as well as history’s heroes and antiheroes—use...
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Robert Bochnak
- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
comprehension portion of the English test; financial markets opened an hour later to ease traffic and make it easier for students to reach testing centers, where anxious parents bowed and prayed outside. When he arrived in the United...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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- 25 Jul 2023
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Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott
healthcare and lithium businesses. “That’s the great thing about the Wesfarmers model,” Scott tells the paper. “We have the capacity to allocate capital and adjust the portfolio so that our group remains contemporary and relevant for what View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
while "tapping more forcefully into opportunities in Asian and global markets." A strong believer in the "implicit social contract" between business and society, Zobel is intent on "keeping our agenda aligned with the Philippines'...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Action Plan: In Context
into an enormous market opportunity for multinational corporations. “There were a lot of Chinese who felt like they needed to improve their knowledge and confidence of how to behave in these different...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted
or assignment of rotations in a career path to heighten social skills. In fact, as big companies have become leaner, they’re more focused on getting someone who’s highly expert in that job and leaving them there. If you assign an executive to a foreign View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel...
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- 20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
department went on to highlight some of the robust engagement opportunities the School offers to alumni, including an Alumni Dinner series, which brought together alumni and rising EC (2nd year) students for 19 dinners in 10 cities;...
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- 28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View
Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t...
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- 21 May 2024
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A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one...
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- 09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink
payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost access to traditional capital,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
4 million people graduate into the insurance market every year and spend four to five years in this phase, in which they aren’t buying traditional assets. Surround aims to land these customers early by offering products that no one else...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and...
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- 04 May 2023
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Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion
This year marks the return of international travel for the MBA Program’s FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course, an experiential learning opportunity that gives first-year students in the Required Curriculum hands-on exposure to how business...
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