Imperialism - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2008
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Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

26 Sep 2021
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Kominers’s Conundrums: Weight Weight… Don’t Tell Me!

09 Aug 2013
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Beyond Ackman, JCP Fights for Survival

01 Sep 2015
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What Lessons Can Presidential Candidates Learn About Leadership From Ernest Shackleton?

28 Feb 2010
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Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction?

08 Apr 2014
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Taking Over a State by a Religious Movement Was Basically Inconceivable to Most Outside Observers

27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

off. It was incredible,” he says. The experience prompted Schmidt to leave his home near Nuremberg after high school for a one-year stint at an NGO in Indonesia, and eventually to earn his aerospace engineering degree in 2014 at Imperial... View Details

03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation

Ferracone replies, “I think so. A good leader is accountable for the performance of the organization and stands up to it in every respect, including with his or her compensation. If a leader’s compensation is excessive relative to the market for CEOs, then that’s a... View Details

Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Sep 2019
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Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes

Schwarzman pushing his storekeeper father to expand his business and successfully convincing Little Anthony and the Imperials to play at his high school. An early chapter that details his younger years is aptly titled “Go Big”, the... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than 200 years of history, author Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Avoiding a Succession Crisis

status. Even among those CEOs who plan for succession, some manage in such an imperial fashion that the potential successors wither in their shade. And in their heart of hearts, some CEOs fear being surpassed. Many companies think a horse... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader

inspires the innovative products and superior services that create lasting shareholder value. Did we expect too much from CEOs over the past decade? During that period, we saw the rise of the imperial CEO. They were treated like rock... View Details

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

01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic

enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. If you know something is not forever, what would you do differently? A lot of things, it... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

doubt that America’s global preeminence is fading. The imperial torch is being passed to other actors. It’s happening as we speak, and for a range of reasons. Some are those Edward Gibbon pointed to in the late eighteenth-century when he... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Alumni Books The Crimson Emperor: A Tale of Imperial Byzantium by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) (Amazon Digital Services) In this romantic tale, a weapon-maker’s son becomes a deadly warrior and military commander, rising to... View Details

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