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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
central tasks. The first role of the leader is to set direction. Humans are born goal directed. They want to move forward. Most become antsy or anxious when they lack direction. Ultimately, if there is no direction over an extended period... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
see the world improve,” says cofounder Esther Hsu Wang (MBA/MPA 2009) from her office in Zambia, which she shares with Paul, her husband. “We see this need, and we’re not willing to wait for someone else to do it. Why not us?” Paul says... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
that it raised more than $2 million as part of a capital campaign, thereby erasing a debt accrued in a period that included not only the post-Katrina flooding but also an economy that cratered in 2008. On the way back to the French... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
by Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005) and Prameela Kalive (Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd.) At a crossroads in February 2001, the shareholders of Zansar Technologies were waiting for a maiden dividend, and profit margins were sliding. A new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
assess what each side had done to comply with promised actions. Assuming that the cooling-off period takes hold, then foreign ministers from Arab countries and Israel would set up a more comprehensive outline for negotiations. Ross's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and third, by experience, which is bitterest. In your career, you will experience all three of these elements. When you receive your MBA, you will have completed an intense period of the first element: reflection. Learn to intellectually... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
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 poses challenges, said Henderson. “If we could afford to View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
of France, on my way to Lisbon in Portugal. And I had been on a work trip in Cannes. Which is a town near the French Riviera. I'm waiting for a flight, I'm sitting with some colleagues. And we were really just View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Being in a period of indecision may be uncomfortable, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing.” Terrana says she learned that what motivated her fifteen years ago — her career, primarily — had changed to encompass family, friends, greater... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
Abington High School in suburban Philadelphia, Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) got waitlisted at Harvard College. So he found the number for Harvard’s dean of admissions and called him up to plead his case directly. When told by the dean that no one would be admitted... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
have to convince 10 other people before I can do it. Steven Torok, Class of 1977. First meaningful job was actually before business school, out of college, waiting to go to business school. I had taken a degree from a liberal arts college... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes circle the airport, each View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Change, and Making Good Things Happen By Zoe Chance (DBA 2011) Random House You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, follow the rules, wait your turn, not make waves. Yale professor Zoe Chance will show... View Details