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Partners - Managing the Future of Work

network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power,... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

presides over the epicenter of Athens—looking out over Hellenic Parliament on one corner and Syntagma Square on the other—has been witnessing the capital’s highs and lows since 1842. Protesters took hammers... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

emotional and intellectual, not just financial. This is a big deal.” With the auto industry’s problems, globalization’s “creative destruction” is evident as never before to many Americans, as is the fear that the country may no longer be... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers

15 Nov 2004
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Solving the Health Care Conundrum

providers are beginning to offer unique services, creating the facilities and organizations to effectively deliver them, and gathering the data to show superior performance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

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Past Issues - Alumni

plan, and a mission to create deep economic and social change, NBA Africa is shooting for a continental shift in basketball Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen’s Sacred Seed... View Details

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy

to landfill waste. What’s worse, each of the 27 million diapers that are tossed every year will take four or five centuries to decompose, due to their petroleum-based materials. Between the lack of performance in the sustainable brands... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2002
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GE's Jeff Immelt

performance, the ability to focus on the future, and a commitment to its people, culture, and values. “We need companies that perform with integrity,” he said. “Performance is... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

Business schools also have to think carefully about their curriculum. We’ve been talking about the need for corporations to adjust to a changing environment, increasing pressures to dial down the single-minded pursuit of profit and to... View Details

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Tony Domit, vice president of a network business unit, began developing a method that used off-the-shelf components to perform the Xerox networked printer-controller functions. Domit's solution used an IBM personal computer, some special... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

21 Jan 2013
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Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

"Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." —Abdu'l-Bahá The field of economics is rife with the concept of "capital." There's financial capital—cold hard cash or cashable assets. There's fixed capital—the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

in New Orleans. And it creates an opportunity for someone like Bolden, who doesn't have the education, who hasn't been given the economic opportunities, to still be innovative View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and... View Details