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Commencement 2011 Address | About
generation of leaders. This is a moment where I want to stop and put advice into action. Members of the Class of 2011, stand up and turn around. As much as today is a celebration of you and what you have accomplished, none of it would be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
customers and from outside the industry), decision agility (anticipating changes and turning even troubling trends into opportunities), and execution agility (building new capabilities, shedding what doesn’t fit, and taking the first... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years of age. Thyssen kept trying to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
those pie charts, that every aspect of the budget is facing cuts—and that every effort is being made to right the ship for the future. After the public comment, the nine-member board turns to an agenda of items that runs from the renewal... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
to turn around Uber’s toxic culture in 2017. Gino thought Saint John’s powerful presence and resonant messages, on the value of courageous authenticity and the urgency of living life fiercely, aligned with themes in Gino’s 2018 book,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Scale: How Anyone Can Turn an Unsolved Problem into a Breakthrough Success By Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) St. Martin’s Press The Entrepreneurial Process, one of Brown University’s highest-rated courses, has empowered thousands of students to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate Rodrigo Osmo (MBA 2003) for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
platter, often by pretending to be someone they’re not. Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two by Jim Koch (JD/MBA 1978) (Flatiron Books) The founder of the Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, offers his perspective on... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that managers don't have some control... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
differences-- you remember how I told you about altruism? Morrell: Yeah. Polli: So it turns out that our entrepreneur profile actually indicates-- and I've seen this in other research before-- that entrepreneurs tend to be on the more... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
that best represents the data. Thus researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in data, which could in turn lead to inductive theory building. ML’s strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
on. If there was one thing our reviewers focused on, it was making sure that our results were robust! Camerota:Did you have an idea of how the study would turn out? Bernstein: Somebody once told me that business academics are the janitors... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
more. But in 1983, the EEOC loosened that reporting regulation, requiring companies to turn in racial composition figures only when they had at least 100 workers on payroll. Koning believes the threshold for reporting racial data should... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
pictured here was not part of the test.) Courtesy Michael Luca Luca and Dai turned their focus to restaurants throughout the US that had not actively advertised on Yelp in the year prior to the experiment. They also narrowed their sample... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
for both players. Dillon took a pay cut for a chance to make the playoffs and win a Super Bowl, and Branch took advantage of his performance under Belichick and was paid handsomely elsewhere, though it turned out that his performance was... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
immigrant scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers in the United States helps facilitate faster technology transfer from the United States, which in turn aids economic growth and development. This is certainly a positive benefit diasporas... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
describes a strategic meeting at which managers sat at a large conference table with scores of assistants behind them, all listening to a PowerPoint presentation and engaging in little or no discussion. He was so frustrated by the lack of real dialogue that he View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat