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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
obtain a master's degree from the Michigan Technological University. Thirty-two years later, a young Indian in Bangalore, Saumil Majmudar, started a small company. Those two events are connected by a trail of knowledge accumulation and... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
revolved around weekly piano and ballet lessons—and art. “I was the poster child for the value of early education in the visual arts,” she recalls. “I studied on South Michigan Avenue, across from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC). Every... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
into the issue, however, Kerr found that wasn't necessarily the case. Collaborating with William Lincoln of the University of Michigan and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund, Kerr tapped into a database of lobbying... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
slowdown, it would be HBS. SONIA SAHNEY, 26 West Bloomfield, Michigan BME, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan Organized the HBS Diwali Show and performed bhangra, a style of popular Indian dance.... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Faulkner Robert and Susan Shell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming Abstract Chapter excerpt: "Most American occupations of foreign countries have been of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
batteries. No American battery company comes close to CATL. Under intense political pressure, the project has been delayed and scaled back. A Michigan plant was set to create 2,500 jobs. Ford was to retain 100 percent ownership in a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
is the need to consider how social spending changes as industries consolidate and mergers change the locations of major corporate headquarters. Q: What are your next research steps in this line of work? A: Building on this paper, Gerald Davis from View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
(MBA 1972) has parlayed a lifelong interest in the field of organizational behavior into two careers. Encouraged by HBS professors Jay Lorsch and Paul Lawrence, Nadler pursued a PhD in the subject at the University of Michigan and taught... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
2010, the upscale national grocer—at the gentle suggestion of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow—came to look at properties in central Detroit. One of them was a vacant piece of land that Cummings owned on Mack Avenue in Midtown, next to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
proud alumna of the University of Michigan and a member of the inaugural class of 2009 TED Fellows. Zachary Gabriel Green Zachary Gabriel Green, Ph.D. was the director of the On the Matter of Black Lives conference and directed the first... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
Kids Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 811-042 In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles "Tex" Thornton, a U.S. Air... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
you have an incredibly creative person with a great idea, and you can't find the money to fund it," notes Vicki Wilson (MBA 1985), CFO of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Her colleague down Michigan Avenue, Field Museum of... View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
circumstantial. Love is an action and a choice made with intention each day. Choosing to be in a long-distance marriage with me attending HBS and Stephen attending Michigan Ross was one of the hardest decisions we’ve had to make together.... View Details
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
led to cuts in basic public services, declines in population, and significant urban blight. The State of Michigan appointed an emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to lead the city though the restructuring process. In March 2014, Orr and his... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
education commissions and boards throughout the state of Texas and is chair-elect of the University of Michigan Alumni Association. "I've always tried to make my volunteer contribution at levels where my MBA and experience at McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Entrepreneurs must overcome many barriers to get discoveries to market, but academic researchers face an additional one they might not realize: themselves. Academics tend to develop a myopic focus on the unique expertise they spend their lives developing, but that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Mayo Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Michigan Hospitals, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. When the recession hit, Kirlin was able to avoid layoffs, though hours were reduced in some departments. Notes Brownell,... View Details