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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
global in its scope and insisted on ethical business practices—a rare initiative in a sector marred by corruption. In 2009, when the company was acquired by Schneider Electric, Hattangady turned her attention to impact investing and community service. The firm’s... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
explored questions like “How can business, government, and nonprofit leaders come together to mitigate the effects of worker displacement? How should entrants to the workforce best prepare themselves?” Leaders from the City of San... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s best to take a deep breath,... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
current and future people will hire VR and VR applications for.” What are your short- and long-term career goals? “Short-term, I am focused on building a strong team at Facebook that can continue to build best View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
disability. How did that experience give you empathy and how do you practice that in your professional life? CF: I think a lot of times after I went blind, and I was first walking around with my guide dog, people would come up to me and... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
so convinced that we have to build a high end, more sensitive, sustainable kind of tourism practice to the region. I was very convinced by the proposal. And I quit my job and started the business. But also, at that time, I did rationally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
management, still a novel concept in that era, a move that initially met resistance. But because TQM forced company-wide excellence in everything, not only in product quality, “It was one of the best things I ever did in a leadership... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
rebate. While this practice is common in the financial services industry, it is illegal. iTrust hopes that, as a new generation financial services company, it can influence progress in the industry. In a blog post, Varma observes that it... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. “We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the best plan and making the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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
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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 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process... 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 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
- 12 May 2022
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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
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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