Reputations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

that had staked their reputations on academic superiority — faced a full-blown crisis of identity and purpose. It was no longer possible for business schools to tout a mission of educating managers according to the canons of postwar... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

of experience that you gain by working for a reputable firm and getting training, mentoring that will lower your risk of failure later on. Everyone wants to be Bill Gates and Zuckerberg, but those are the outliers. That's not the norm.... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

25-person company with a reputation for creating high-quality products that appealed to both parents and children. Their prices were higher than other toys, but word of mouth — be it parents, kids, or the network of people who work in or... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience and transformation against extraordinary odds and war. Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life By Wilbur Ross (MBA 1961) Regnery Before being named President Trump’s Secretary of Commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross had already earned a View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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