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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
bank account, and family support system.” Up the structure. Build your own board of directors. “You need a group of people who will offer outside support and call you to account,” Burton advises. Evaluate your approach on a monthly basis.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Boston, and the Grow Clinic for Children at Boston City Hospital. He also serves on the Cornell University Council and on the Harvard University Board of Overseers. « Back After working in marketing and advertising with Young & Rubicam... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
quite a few companies face this issue. Another challenge is corporate governance. Historically, banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies were dominated by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
financial measures of performance,” he says. “How do you design a performance measurement system that is both useful for monitoring purposes and motivates people to do the right thing? We know that financial measures of performance are... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
board about five years after its founding, Melcher became chair. Melcher also monitored the student lunchroom so that the teachers could all eat together. At first, that effort and the large amounts spent on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Michael Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an authority on organizational theory, organizational strategy, and finance. He is codirector of The Monitor Company Organizational Strategy... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all kinds of activities that also... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
we're getting ready to take off. And at that point, my boss, Major Stephen Reich, the guy who'd been mentoring me the whole time, gets on board and asks me about my plan. And he said, OK, I like it, everything except the parts that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
with characteristic vigor. During his first year, he wrote for (and was eventually elected to the board of) the Harbus News and helped run classmate Al Dobron's campaign for president of the Student Association. "This time my candidate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
COVID patients. They were often at 40 percent and quickly going down to 30; one patient, in front of my eyes, went down to zero. I didn’t even know the oxygen monitor could read that low. We had to cut out the usual steps and prioritize... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
immediate access to the Internet for those who want to "surf" between classes. The MBA calendar - including listings of club events, speakers, recruiting schedules, and Student Association notices - is on-line and available on each student's personal computer.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
That this has been a period that's also been helpful for them. How is that so? Make that case. Angela: Well, innovation happens usually out of necessity. We're seeing that across the board with every business, with every industry—and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice or Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) This book argues that boards enable organizations to excel only when directors go beyond their standard duties of oversight... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
expressed in its earlier statement. The new statement includes the following: In the Business Roundtable’s view, the paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s stockholders; the interests of other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
enthusiastic Tait was working on an idea for a game and wanted to run it by Furlong. When the pair met for breakfast at the Hi Spot Cafe in Seattle the next Saturday at 7 a.m., the bleary-eyed Furlong was surprised to learn that Tait was not developing a computer or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
online message boards were set up almost immediately to enable concerned alumni to check on the status of classmates, colleagues, and friends. “I see my family, my neighborhood, my classmates, my countrymen, and even the entire free world... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
approach. But we were very successful there, and the board said, ‘Let’s take it worldwide.’” Ko has helped to do just that. Endeavor already has assisted nearly 300 entrepreneurs in nine countries. Ko is now charged with scoping out new... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Fifty-three-year-old Vescovo, his long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail, meticulously monitored the operation of the submersible, which he had christened the Limiting Factor. He watched the depth gauge creep up: 7,192 meters, the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley