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- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
and value inclusion when they are in school, it is going to be increasingly difficult for them to function in the real world,” says Darden in a final reflection. “If you don’t know how to talk to people who aren’t from your own particular... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
artists to fund a variety of projects, ranging from major site-specific installations to endeavors that support the entire creative ecosystem, such as the international professional journal for curators, The Exhibitionist. Evans, who lives in Boston with her classmate... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas that range from wind turbines to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 15 Dec 2024
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The Golden Thread
their meaningful work? As long as I’ve got breath and a functioning brain, I can continue my meaningful work—my research and writing—in some way. But the academic profession is unusual in that respect. I wanted to find out what it’s like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. RS: I would also tell the CEO that he or she needs to take a hard and deep look at what’s happening in terms of View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
health care management and policy, leading through crisis, adapting your business, leveraging technology, and work life. Faculty members have shared their ideas and offered practical solutions through working papers, articles, op-eds,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
points based on their selection round. We would cross them off when they talked and, at the end of the class, add up the points of those who remained silent. There were some funny moments and some not so funny, as when my neighbor was... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
But there were those within the US government who knew they needed more than fighters on the front lines. Green had the necessary skills to manage the business of the war, and the connections to get himself hired for the job. Green came... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
According to Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions, two international students - one from France and one from China - were among the School's inaugural class of approximately 25. Since that time, thousands of international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
he makes presentations before corporate and business-school audiences that link music to business (www.jazz-impact.com). “Jazz musicians are entrepreneurs,” Gold says, adding that they are like managers in today’s business world “who are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built
government, became his mentor and continued to support his studies through law school. Donham specialized in corporate restructuring as a vice president at Boston’s Old Colony Trust Company and won wide praise from both labor and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
other was elevating her students’ achievement scores. To move the needle on both, she took Leading Change, Leading Schools, and Leading People, three of four online courses included in the Certificate of School Management and Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and hopped on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
buildings and homes so they’re warmer in summer and cooler in winter has more impact than a lot of technology fixes for those same buildings.” Attitude adjustment can be driven by financial forces. Says Rebecca Henderson, the Senator John Heinz Professor of... View Details