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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of human history, there have only... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
By age three, Allison Hughes loved playing blackjack with her father and routinely cleaned him out of M&Ms and pocket change. One afternoon, after having won an especially large pot, she vowed to become either a banker or a card dealer.... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
in so many ways in terms of who I am, where I come from, and what I want to do,” Hussein concludes. “My goal is becoming a reality.” — GE Laura Dillon Course Correction Dillon As a veteran sailor (she began competing internationally at View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin’s Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. “I was clueless going into... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
identify the characteristics of successful enterprises and leaders in this realm. The nearly 100 academics, business practitioners, and nonprofit executives from fifteen countries who gathered for the event examined the operational and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
talks about. In a short space of 30 years, China has transformed itself radically and become a major factor in the world. Victor and I saw this abrupt change as the beginning of a golden age for a trading company like Li & Fung. The... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
over 100 percent in raw and net of market returns over the past two years to determine the likelihood of a crash (defined as a 40 percent drawdown) after a large price run-up. They also collected all of the characteristics of price... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it examines the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the captains then got a bunch of crew. Morrell: Take the example of the Essex, the whaling boat whose story became the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The principal owners of the Essex invested in some repairs in the aging... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
characteristically LEGO approach to the threat that Mega Bloks poses: “Healthy competition has provided a good wake-up call for us.” Brain Power: Bill Furlong In the mid-1990s, while working in the marketing department at Microsoft,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
motives, such as ending research that might pinpoint responsibility and, most threateningly, liability for this man-made epidemic. Europe and the End of the Age of Innocence by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) Palgrave Macmillan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
how to get and use professional help; a rebuttal to family wealth models; a philosophy of family wealth; and challenges for wealthy parents and how to address them. Reinvention: Accelerating Results in the Age of Disruption by Shane... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Leadership, intellect, entrepreneurial savvy, interest in community service, good old-fashioned school spirit - these are some of the defining characteristics of the MBA Class of 1996. And while it's impossible to show the depth and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
a recent study, ninety percent of women stated that they “expect to transition” within the next five years. The book helps women increase their awareness of transition and understand it as positive and optimistic, a substantive departure from the negative View Details