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- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
human-relations skills and perspective he felt he needed to excel in the corporate environment. “I found the answers on how to manage and lead,” he said, “in a most unexpected place—the Bible. I came to believe that View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
industry. “We’re hyper-focused on covering transformative technologies,” Joseph says. “The gaming industry is redefining how we engage with content and how we connect with people from across the world, and AI is transforming how every... View Details
Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for whom college is far from a given.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
see it come to fruition, as it combines all the now-familiar elements of a collaborative effort around an important, inspiring vision. “We’re bringing people together in Asia so they can contribute to, and be part of, the future of this... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
managers who benefited from laws such as Title IX become senior managers, we may be on the cusp of more change. What about people who became successful despite their lack of access to traditional paths to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
by his example. He grew up in a very small village in India and was one of the first people in his family to attend college, where he studied engineering. He then went to England to get a diploma in View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
manage it, and give it direction? That's what our new book, From Resource Allocation to Strategy, is about. People have studied the process in various ways, first to understand how it works and then to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
African-Americans, to help them to manage their money,” she recalls. “These were people like Oprah— people who are on the Forbes list of wealthiest African-Americans. “I got to... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
as Digitas, AKQA, and TWBA—when, in 2013, a shared workspace coffee-bar conversation provoked the career pivot that would launch her new business venture, Prokanga. “I had a bunch of interactions with people who were starting companies,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
community. Our second-largest shareholder was so enamored by this that he wanted me to advertise it. I absolutely refused. I always followed the theory that if someone else toots your horn, the noise travels twice as far. Grand Bank was extremely profitable because I... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Understanding complex odds relative to something more universal—say, a baseball game—makes math and probability more palatable, he argues. "The world is increasingly dividing between those who understand this kind of math and its fundamentals and those who don't," says... View Details
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IT Strategy: Helping Leaders Grow Their Skills | Information Technology
establish a comprehensive and consistent approach to competency-based training, development, and evaluation for people managers within our organization. By identifying and focusing on the critical skills... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
data tells you one thing, but it’s talking to people and being out in the world that really give you the creative power to see what’s next.” Joint venture: “We built Bluemercury while we were building our family and associate each one of... View Details
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Mariano Bomaggio
years in technology: first in the European Union and Africa, then with Uber in Latin America. His experiences awakened an interest in finance, which in turn motivated him to pursue an MBA. Learning how people think For Mariano, attending... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
When news broke March 24 that a young co-pilot for Lufthansa's low cost-airline Germanwings had intentionally crashed a passenger jet into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others, people struggled for answers. What would make... View Details
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Aspa Lekka
"I started knowing nothing," she says. But she went above and beyond the call of duty, completing extra work to advance her skills. "I managed to build a number of models for digital marketing – it gave me deep knowledge of... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
management style has left in its wake a long line of unhappy stakeholders: regulators, competitors, drivers, customers, and even some partners. Kanter, who wrote a case study on the company after featuring Uber in a recent book, hopes... View Details
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Jan Petzel
acquainted with Community Action Nepal, a charity benefitting the people of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. In reaching Everest's summit just before his 40th birthday, Petzel committed to raising nearly $17,000—20 percent... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services