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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
later, after I developed a real practice, did writing become what it is for me now, which is essential. What’s ahead for you? The way we casually misuse language is something that I want to change. I think the biggest way that people lie... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
promotions to local holidays and customs, incorporating idiomatic language and local tastes so that each country's customers will relate to their site in an emotional way." The Uruguay-born Juan Peirano of Velox Group has firsthand... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
at the top, by understanding the impact their words and language have on tone through their conversations in the boardroom and with key stakeholders. Part 3 introduces specific strategies, techniques, and tactics for directors. And Part 4... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
silence. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. It changed who I was. It literally changed who I was. Learning to operating and leading in two languages that you did not understand. I was operating from a deficit at day one and it took... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
language of historical explanation, a major conflagration can start to seem unnervingly probable in our time, just as it turned out to be in 1914. Some may even be tempted to say that the surge of commodity prices in the period from 2003... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
leadership team. Although 17 percent of the School’s 2014 graduates went into tech, many current students—male and female—who are interested in the info tech sector are unfamiliar with the language of coding. To address this, two years... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
financial losses, and a large amount of wasted time for everyone involved. This book was written to help a person, family, or team transform any challenge or problem using a proprietary six-step process. It brings organizations together with a common View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
granting that she still defines success by the typical benchmarks of money and responsibility, the former VC partner also recounts a recent conference she and her husband had with her son's teacher. "She said he was very smart, and he's doing really well with View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
traditions. But we wanted to bring them all under this pan-Hispanic umbrella. So that was also a challenge. And the third part that was a challenge was we wanted to make the language authentic. They spoke Spanish and English, so... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
shoes for their kids, or be empowered, and also be able to sustain their lives better. “The women that we empower, unfortunately, most of the time, are ignored, they’re unbanked. So the idea for us is to be able to help them in a way that is sustainable, easy to... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
their own academic goals. “I wrote my admission essay about my time at the Treasury, and the need for people who speak the languages of public service and finance,” she says. “I wanted to have credibility and background in both government... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
isolated. Ascending to ubiquity from the car-obsessed America of the late 1950s, McDonald’s became a common language and a cultural export—an affordable and dependable escape. For decades, McDonald’s was a place to feel good. How could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Bhartia and Raamin Mostaghimi (both MBA 2014). The book gives early readers insight into how to add value and avoid checked luggage, plus lessons on the language they’ll need to manage up: When a partner asks for 15 hours of work in the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
and lessons for a United States whose flag may not continue to have fifty stars. What causes countries to “untie”? There’s a whole series of theories to explain why that happens: religious, cultural, and language differences. But often... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
it was a special language in my family music. My interest in the music business, though, came from pop culture, largely, at first a television show in the '80s called Jem and the Holograms. Jen Flint: Yes. Caren Kelleher: I love Jem and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
began to improve almost immediately,” he recalls. Looking back, Perkowski maintains that not speaking Chinese hasn’t hindered his ability to work in China. “Not knowing the language forced me to rely on others and learn who I could... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
despite minor language barriers. “Rugby is its own language; it connects people,” said Rush. “I’ve always said that on-field rugby behavior is policed somewhat by the fact that you have to interact with your opponents at the party... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
language of business and comprises three 30-hour courses: Business Analytics (created by Jan Hammond), Financial Accounting (by V.G. Narayanan), and Economics for Managers (by Anand). For its inaugural program this June, CORe will target... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
auction design or market design and stuff like that, the fact that I wasn’t just a completely nerdy academic I also had some connection by having gone to a business school. And, I can sort of talk to businessmen in their language if I... View Details