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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost impossible financial odds. "I started the early design meetings with a nondenominational prayer," says Stuart, an Episcopalian who also...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
MBA and AMP programs, details the challenges faced by Woolworths (unrelated to Woolworth, the U.S. company), a major South African retailer poised to test its mettle as an international competitor. "The case is about building a unique...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world....
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- 01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men
Professors Williams, Lodge, Goldberg, and Salmon, we gain a behind-the-scenes look at the School during its crucial middle decades and further benefit from their accumulated wisdom as to future directions for the institution they helped View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
need to cut the cost of a building by 10 percent in order to make the numbers work, they need to understand what has been given up. I'd like them to be better at visualizing the impact of what is being created and its effect on the user...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life
University of Southern California, in a book called High Flyers, that I finally found a theory that could help people make better hiring decisions. To begin with, McCall has a very different view of the right stuff—and it explains why so...
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- 26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
good? And if we believe profit, purpose and social returns are not in conflict, how do we put that theory into action as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, or investor?” Cissy Chen (MBA 2019), who helped organize the event for the HBS...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
(Jones & Bartlett) With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, sophisticated compliance programs are now mandatory for healthcare organizations, and the penalties for noncompliance are more severe. This book prepares managers to build...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
psychologist,” she says. “None of this is exotic, but it does require consistent attention. Provide resources, help, and clear goals. Offer opportunities to build camaraderie, give basic respect and recognition—simply support people and...
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- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
I’ve observed it directly talking to teachers: extreme fatigue. People have theories about what’s causing it two years on Zoom, every week having changing COVID guidelines. Not just what’s going on in your work environment at the school...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
proud of the turbulence of our own making and the actions we took out of despair. This book sets out to change that. Belsky draws on his experiences building Behance, selling it, and then working as an investor and advisor to distill...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
general management. It was a school that was associated with developing leaders who would go out and run large, complex enterprises or build new entrepreneurial ventures. It was about educating the kind of people whom I always had...
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Roger Thompson