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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
country in the world. From the beginning, and in line with AKDN’s overarching principle of conducting ethical business practices, however, Khoja drew a hard line against making or receiving bribes of any kind, despite the fact that most Afghans accept the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
factor for an internship's success. "It's important that people see change as their own idea," he says. "In dealing with people from another country, I try to be open-minded." Mukhtar, who was born in Nigeria, attended medical school and View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
that left him depressed and despairing that he might never find inner peace. In this book, he shares the spiritual practices that transformed his life. In straightforward language, he provides a set of tools and techniques that everyone... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
customers, so of course it makes sense that we care for our employees and our communities as an extension of that. Eco-consciousness has been part of the company since the beginning, given our practice of recycling and renovating older... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
explains. Drawing on lessons from the practice of real-estate deal-making, Stevenson came up with his now famous definition of entrepreneurship as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled.” That insight in turn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
the best can be fairly hermaphroditic creatures, one minute exhibiting a professor’s passion for the great clarifying concept, the next displaying sales skills worthy of a street hustler. Among my contentions is that it was this very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Bloom admits. "It's not difficult conceptually, but as a practical matter, it's challenging to conduct baseline surveys before an investment and to track and measure students for the years that follow." With that understanding, decisions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
and facing congressional charges of monopolistic practices and calls for their break up. And beyond that, says Alex, Silicon Valley is starting to lose its global monopoly on innovation. Lazarow: In 2013, you would have been right to say,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
mixing metaphors. But the peace through war is what I would call the bulldozer. This was an attempt at peace through negotiation. And in its own way, somewhat imperfectly-- but so is peace through war imperfect-- it succeeded. Morrell: Did you find, I should say, that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
widely held beliefs. First, conventional wisdom holds that the country’s coastal region is the best place to find successful businesses, said Oberholzer-Gee. In fact, for two decades the government officially encouraged foreign investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
excellence-becoming the best in the world; enhancing business-to-business networking and partnering; becoming world-ready, foreign-friendly, and globally linked; creating employability security and spreading workplace education; and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
capacity to deliver digital video on the desktop, Windows 3.1 operating systems were scrapped for Windows 95, and twenty new SUN server workstations were added to support the newly installed systems. "We're looking at the best View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
knew I had plenty of energy, and I was eager to learn whatever they could teach me about singing. So we began practicing together, and before long we started to jell. They came up with the name for the group, and Indian Elvis was born."... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
linguistic, economic, social,and business-culture obstacles — daunting for a foreigner under the best of circumstances — while making the inevitably unpopular decisions required to achieve a turnaround. Fast-forward a couple of years, to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
HBP. Dean McArthur was keen to see that I would do justice to his work, and he specifically wanted to give me more context on the original case and the protagonist. The key lesson in the original case was on the sorts of accounting View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
but you have to know enough to know how the strategy has to work. HR is also important to the upper levels to make sure the talent is there and the right kind of talent for the organizations. Best of all in all my boards, it was mostly... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
things were slightly different. At school you could just be right and that was great, and at work you needed to do things in a way which could be implemented. So it's not just being right, it's being practical about other people's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and business partners. It took the federal courts nine years to determine in a landmark case that Alibris email practices had violated no privacy laws, caused no harm, nor created undue benefits for the company. I never forgot the... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
such as corporate governance, the relationship between values and leadership, corporate accountability and the challenges of financial disclosure, executive compensation, and the role of intermediaries in capital markets. Through our work, we can help shape not only... View Details