Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Tribune. Browne reported on Henrietta’s story and used his legal training to bring about her repatriation to her father in England through a sensational legal case. Forever Sheriff (The High Mountain Sheriff Series) By Edward Massey (MBA... View Details

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

mush them in with the 400 from time to time. But I just want to understand what's going on for all these people. So we just did it. Most of these interns are Democrat. So I said, look, as part of your training session we're going to get a... View Details

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

remains a strong need for talent. People skilled in general management combined with highly technical training to develop a functional perspective are best equipped to navigate the changes ahead, Merton concluded. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

15 Jun 2018
News

Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life

an interesting guy. He was trained to fly by the Australian Air Force. When you're taught to fly by the Air Force, you're taught to think in a very specific way, a way of controlling your attention which corresponds to what we know about... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

K.P. Balaraj. “The need is massive, and no Indian is going to compromise on his child’s education.” Subsidized loans for education and specialized training would be another option. There’s hope that a new awareness and lack of complacency... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

some of that will be directed to the state and city for expenses already incurred. The LMDC has received an initial $2 billion, targeted for infrastructure needs, such as rebuilding the subway and commuter train lines destroyed at Ground... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

believed their department's performance was satisfactory, but poorly trained employees in other departments caused the failures. However, only 14% of the operational failures arose from errors or training. They stemmed instead from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

with fewer resources available to address them—or even the training to keep up with technology. Oishi discovered this firsthand toward the end of her pregnancy in 1997, after the second of two ultrasounds by as many doctors. “Your baby... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

tireless student president also trained for and completed the Boston Marathon (a feat he repeated in this year's centennial anniversary of the race). How did he accomplish it all? "I got about three hours of sleep a night," smiles Dobron,... View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

professional growth? An artist may start out as an artist. Then do I promote them and properly train them to be head of story? The next position could be to become co-director and eventually to the director of a movie. So in the case of... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

may be the most important environmental objective, and in others it may be reducing the amount of water used. Racial and gender diversity can be a priority, but so too is ensuring some minimal amount of training for all employees every... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

meeting—a GPP program that trains students to educate their peers about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. (In 2014, the Georgia Meth Project broadened its focus to become the Georgia Prevention Project.) Some of the students wear... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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countries as well as infrastructure, municipal, and sovereign restructuring. Although CVCR is primarily a finance course, students will also often have to take an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, drawing on their training in... View Details

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