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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
pleasant memories of his class back in the early 1960s. What I remember of Mr. Levitt (he was always “Mister” to me) is his furtive pacing back and forth in front of the blackboard. At the third level were a couple of fellows who even in Levitt’s class would doze off... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Fund for Leadership and Innovation or made gifts directed to specific priorities. A multiyear series of Campaign events will be held in more than 20 locations around the world, each designed to connect alumni in learning about and sharing... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
long-promised future a reality “This is 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
respect to government and economic restructuring,” Jasinowski remarks, referring to the disruptive movement from state-owned enterprises to newer plants funded by foreign direct investment. Getting Close to the Customer Foreign... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
dinner and saying it’s a fait accompli,” Peterson tells the group, referring to the need to balance input between management and clinicians. “It has to be messy for the first hour.” Two people are charged with creating the first iteration... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
their goods or the quality of services. The next step in what they referred to as the “progression of economic value” would require engaging consumers experientially, “on an emotional, physical, intellectual, or even spiritual level.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
keeping construction on schedule to ensuring that new and renovated buildings function as expected and are maintained within budget. In his office in Shad Hall, O’Brien takes time out from his daily campus rounds to explain the new master plan’s historic context. View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
spiritual, scriptural reference to what to what they've illuminated. So I end up walking away, as the teacher, that much more challenged in my own assumptions. And I'm able to sort of bring another framework to the next discussion. Hanna:... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
the heart once you’ve gone and assessed those types of things. When I get calls from like venture capitalists or other people who might want to invest in some of my alumni, the easiest reference checks that I find that I can make, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
contrary forces of dreamer and doer in Mawilmada that would propel him through the various stages of his career. At that point, he was still the dreamer who had worked on designing a fantastical, entirely artificial baobab tree in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
today: 1. Insist on doing everything through channels. 2. Make speeches. 3. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. 4. Refer all matters to committees. 5. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. 6. Haggle over... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
MK: Hobbes is pretty big. He's taller than me. I'm about six feet tall. I wouldn't say he's particularly exciting looking. He is a giant steel box, essentially. DM: Inside, you can see waffle-shaped sorbent cartridges designed to remove... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
doors of NeuroLaunch. Since then, the company has worked with two “batches,” as accelerators refer to groups of clients, in sum 11 companies. Headquartered across town from Emory, near the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the heart of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
ask you for your support in this important work." Referring to the School's five "I's" priorities, Nohria explains how the Campaign will promote progress in each of these areas: Innovation—Redefining management education for the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
irony Edwards savors with a smile: “At several public meetings at the White House, President Bush has referred to me as ‘my congressman.’” But not for much longer if the Republican Party has its way. The GOP painted a big target on... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
them, you may be missing an opportunity to do something that is extraordinarily impactful. So I refer to that experience in the book and say that that actually impacted the way that I felt about how Black people should respond to their... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In this special edition of Skydeck... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities call for new approaches, some... View Details