Imagination - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

and CEO, Xora, Mountain View, California; founder and chairman, Deathwise, San Francisco, California Mentors come into our lives in unexpected ways. As a young technology professional, I naively imagined that I could find some female... View Details

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

the American travelers. And now, I imagine you see it through new eyes again, as you've returned and sent other tourists there. Tell me about how it's evolved for you over the years? Zhang Mei: My relationship with Dali started in my... View Details

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

they inherently are thinking long-term. And when you imagine your business for the long-term, you naturally think of different stakeholders. So this idea that multi-stakeholder is somehow bad for business, it’s not, because if you're... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Imagination House: An Entrepreneurial Life by E. Lee Walker (MBA 1967) Texas A&M University Press When 21-year-old Michael Dell asked E. Lee Walker to be the president of his fledgling computer company, PC’s Limited, Walker, in his... View Details

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

business, Unity in Glass Europe. (photo by Darrin Vanselow/Getty) When you’re young, you don’t imagine the tradeoffs that professional success might entail. You just think, “I’m going to get in there, and kick butt, and my boss is going... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

impossible to reconcile her ambitions with her circumstances. But she discovers that adventure can enter her life in a manner she never imagined and lead her into an abyss of loneliness and marginalization, where one misstep could... View Details

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

much time apart, and, two, this is not the life that we had imagined for ourselves in terms of having a really good partnership and thinking about starting a family,” Gordon says. Gordon’s deep network allows her to provide clients with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

collaboration, and teamwork, and fighting against evil together. That was really why I did It. In the case of The Lego Movie, it was I just loved the theme of imagination and creativity. And I loved playing with the toy as a kid. And I... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

about two hundred vehicles, so you can imagine how much dust that kicked up. There was dirt embedded in my scalp. The conditions were terrible but it ended up being a very satisfying experience, especially for my soldiers. They had a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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