Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

that war, without realizing that their current adversary is adjusting, changing, and developing new technologies to fight the next war. Falling into this trap is potentially devastating, leaving you unprepared to fight the actual war that... View Details

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

for today if a similar meltdown of globalization is to be avoided. Q: Did putting the Handbook together change your own thinking? A: One of the most surprising revelations for Jonathan and myself was just how many people are working in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

number of small manufacturers that sell directly to homeowners and to contractors. To gain a competitive advantage, Union visited potential customers and interviewed them about their preferences for a par-ticular kind of corrugated panel... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

differences in study methods and assumptions and resulting biomass quantities are elucidated. We differentiate between inventory studies, in which quantities of biomass potentially available are estimated without rigorous consideration of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

mission to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. In 2020, their efforts reached 37 million people. That senior leaders had so profoundly failed this survivor—and put... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Some negotiations are easy; others are more difficult. And some situations seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. This book shows how to defuse even the most View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

inspiration in the company's commitment to continuous learning and total quality management. "The reach of our business — what some people call globalization — has changed so rapidly that things that have an impact on View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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