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- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
You wouldn’t know it from most American media, but many sub-Saharan African nations have booming economies. And although the press may have missed the boat on this African success story, many business schools and business leaders know that one result of the boom is a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 14 Apr 2015
- News
History Has Its Place in Business
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Hispanic Talent Is the Future for Big Companies
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
KNECHT: Save our dwindling fish stocks. PHOTO COURTESY MARION ETTLINGER May I take your order? One Patagonian toothfish, please. If that doesn’t sound appetizing, how about Chilean sea bass — what the fish was renamed to appeal to gourmands. The gambit worked but not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
Real estate broker Sharon Enloe Baum (MBA ’65) cruises the streets of Manhattan in a chauffeured black Rolls-Royce that sports the license plate SOLD 1. Actually, in terms of co-ops and houses, she’s sold a lot more than one during her eighteen-year career. But in... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a beauty products division. But Kerty Levy (MBA 1997) sees it... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
victory for organized labor in a context where New Deal era legislation—most notably the National Labor Relations Act of 1935—created a labor friendly environment in the short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it is an economy a century behind... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
workplaces started getting rid of minority workers in favor of whites. Instead, in the 1980s, more minority-only firms began emerging, and we now see a division of labor in terms of race: segregated workplaces that are majority-white,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
cluster size and degree of specialization is measured along 3D: absolute number of employees (>10,000 jobs is used as cut-off for a regional cluster), degree of specialization (regional sector employment is at least two times expected levels) and degree of regional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
better informed, more discerning, thoughtful practitioner. Cultivating the courage and patience to understand others' worldviews and experiences is labor that will enable you to operate differently at work. Gathering information in an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
disclose exactly what we earn. Consistently across the firm’s products, we’ve been a strong top-quartile performer. In Europe, some labor leaders and government officials have called private-equity firms “asset strippers” and “locusts.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
the end I believe this accounting innovation played an important role in the ultimate financial success of the restructuring. Some critics have pointed to recent labor unrest at the airline as evidence that the restructuring failed, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
provide micro-evidence consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Labor Market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 410023. View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
live shackled in what the Chinese call fang nu—slaves to their house. One owner's misery is personal; when over a fifth of mortgage-holders are shackled, the personal misery becomes national. For the country, these homes are an economic shackle, hobbling the housing... View Details
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2.1.4 Academic Retaliation | MBA
individual or designee will consult with the MBA Program Chair, Executive Director of the MBA Program, and a representative from The Office of Labor and Employee Relations to determine if the student engaged in conduct protected from... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
in Latin America, exploring their historical roots and socioeconomic impacts. The report discusses how these disparities affect education, labor markets, and government policies, and suggests approaches for businesses to address these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
uncovering ancient history at archaeological dig sites from England and Turkey to the Jordanian desert. “It’s not Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Rothberg admits with a laugh. “It’s a combination of a lot of physical labor and solving puzzles.... View Details