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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
image by Jeffrey Decoster image by Jeffrey Decoster I was blindsided when my daughter told me, “I’m a heroin addict.” It was November 16, 2009, at a meeting with her drug counselor at Boston College. After I uttered a profanity and slammed my keys on the table, Amy... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 15 Jun 2008
- News
Turning 'dirt to dollars'
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel Omar Maniya (MBA 2016) Illustration by Gisela Goppel I was primed to become a doctor from an early age. Both of my parents are physicians who talked shop at the dinner table, so I grew up with an appreciation for the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design and accelerate policies and plans that help all young people, particularly students of color... View Details
- 07 Feb 2015
- News
Providence Housing Authority turns 75
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
often knew more than they did about the history and culture of the faraway lands they had visited, thanks to what I’d read and watched while growing up. Understanding the universal, equalizing, connecting power of media was a turning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
rent. Nothing. But across the street I see a bar called the Shamrock. It looks a little rough, but I need a beer. I have a good chat with the owner. Then a bunch of women file in, spread out some newspapers, and start painting rocks with positive sayings and drawings.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- News
GE and the turning point for Boston
- 04 Feb 2011
- News
Turning on the lights
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Turning Point: Step Change
Everett Spain (DBA 2014) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Everett Spain (DBA 2014) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) When I think back on different moments that have shaped who I am, there are a few that stand out. In the first, I was a fourth grader in my hometown of... View Details
- 2022
- Article
The Turn Toward Creative Work
By: Spencer Harrison, Elizabeth D. Rouse, Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
In this Academy of Management Collections essay, we curate a set of articles from the Academy of Management family of journals that showcase the evolution of creativity research within organizational scholarship. The articles reveal a shift from the study of... View Details
Harrison, Spencer, Elizabeth D. Rouse, Colin M. Fisher, and Teresa M. Amabile. "The Turn Toward Creative Work." Academy of Management Collections 1, no. 1 (2022): 1–15.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
degree’s relevance, asserting that programs have drifted too far into theory that has relatively little use in practice. And they fault business schools for turning out graduates fixated on shareholder value at the expense of all else.... View Details
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Turning Waste into By-Product
By: Deishin Lee
This paper studies how a firm can create and capture value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced.... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Opportunities; Market Participation; Framework; Profit; Competition; Wastes and Waste Processing; Product; Business Processes
Lee, Deishin. "Turning Waste into By-Product." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 1 (Winter 2011).
- 13 Nov 2014
- News
Turning Missions into Movements
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) We all know someone who has committed suicide. Oftentimes they are the most unlikely of candidates, highly accomplished and outwardly healthy,... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
Mallika Ahluwalia (MBA/MPA 2011) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Mallika Ahluwalia (MBA/MPA-ID 2011) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) I’d never thought of myself as someone who would work in a museum. I’ve always been a very mission-motivated person; for most of my... View Details
- 22 May 2022
- News
Laura Huang On Turning Adversity Into Advantage
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
revenue growth; because, if you do business with the "wrong" visionaries, they'll lead you away from the very pragmatists you will need to turn a high-potential venture into a high-performance venture. It's very important not to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
Genocide Museum, site of the high school that became a torture prison. In his maniacal determination to turn the country into an agrarian utopia, Pol Pot killed off anyone who was educated, who was a musician or dancer, or who simply wore... View Details