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- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
printed out all the case studies," says David Jernigan, executive director of KIPP Metro Atlanta, a charter school network. "I decided to do all the work before I arrived so I could spend my time really digging View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Research Brief: Lost in Translation
intraday trading volumes and more modest price movements in stocks compared with calls led by more fluent speakers. “Executives typically speak English quite well when they’ve had time to prepare and...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small
in July 2020. “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that.” “I always wondered why so many kiranas fail, and I decided to dig deeper into that.” This time, Shruti’s entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Mar 2021
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Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the...
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- 08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance
future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Advance Racial Equity in the Office
in our approach to diversity and inclusion when the commitment isn’t there,” Rice observes. Assign accountability. Five years ago, the tech sector experienced a racial awakening, realized it wasn’t doing well on this metric, and made some...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a...
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April White
- 20 Mar 2019
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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
The window for meaningful policy action is short—we have less than 10 years to transition to clean energy, and to get there we must enact effective policies in the coming two years. This short timeframe...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
a trait. But I remember, like, my first job in sales. I was good, right? But why was I good? I could always see GE through my customers' eyes. And because I could do that, it made me much more effective to...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
because it is a small, well-managed country and in part because it is in effect starting from scratch, Rwanda is achieving good results. Said Porter, “I’m optimistic that the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
live, study, and work in 38 countries in our region. It’s the first time we’ve had such an overseas study program run out of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.” Group...
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Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
current project follows a similar initiative from his time at Volkswagen with automotive parts maker Gestamp—which was in turn inspired by a YALP case, “Southwire and 12 for Life.” The case tells the story...
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- 05 Nov 2021
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The ‘Empathy Advantage’ of Great Women Leaders
- 12 Feb 2018
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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously
- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
of the 21st century. by Deborah Blagg and Susan Young Name: John Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Director: HBS Global Leadership Initiative Most recent book: John P. Kotter on What...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile...
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