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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
Stearns before serving as the CFO for a nationwide health-care company with 24,000 employees. Zweig worked at Time Inc. and Dow Jones and cofounded Salon.com. He was most recently senior editor at the World Business Academy, an View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Daniela Barone Soares (MBA 1997), Chief executive, Impetus Trust, London, England There are innumerable possible, equally rewarding career paths outside the more "traditional" ones. Success is an internally defined concept: External... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study and identified language differences “as the most divisive,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
technologies need to be operated at is enormous. It's at the scale of the biggest thing that humankind has ever done, at the scale of oil and gas exploration, going to the moon. These are enormous undertakings both from an engineering,and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
codifying values. Specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes for faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but little on what to teach. Faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
The common language is ASCII, a binary code consisting of combinations of ones and zeros. But your brain doesn’t operate this way. Instead of ASCII, your brain understands sparse distributed representations (SDRs). SDRs are also zeros and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning by Joseph L. Bower (HBS Press) Professor Bower explains how companies can develop internal candidates for the CEO role by grooming “inside outsiders” — leaders with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
partnered with us. What do you mean by competitiveness? Porter: There’s widespread confusion about what competitiveness actually means, so our definition is a vital component of our work. When we talk about US competitiveness, we mean the ability of firms View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
Not along ago, consultant Alison Sander (MBA ’86/JD ’87) was invited to evaluate the potential for sustainable investment opportunities in Ecuador’s rain forests, where petroleum reserves were being parceled out to international energy... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from 5 to 45 gigawatt-hours, or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
can do more in the areas of globalization, experiential learning, and leadership development isn’t an admission of doing little or nothing. Far from it. Professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean for International Development,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Enterprise Analytics: Optimize Performance, Process, and Decisions through Big Data edited by Thomas Davenport (FT Press) This book, a collection of research papers from the International Institute for Analytics, addresses a wide variety... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
at certain points in my career but only in hours, never in responsibilities. My advice is to always take the promotion or new job and then figure out how to make it work. Once you have the job, you can redefine it as needed. Women in particular often View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
While the more autocratic Rajapaksa ended the war, he did so with intense and indiscriminate air, sea, and ground assaults, resulting in an international outcry over human rights violations; some estimates put the number of Tamil civilian... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28. Houlihan Lokey would go on to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
world’s least densely populated country. At A Glance Total Area: 1,564,116 sq. km. Population: 3,041,142 Per Capita GDP: $3,400 Oyunjargal Dashzeveg (AMP 171, 2006): MONGOLIA I’ve been the CEO of Mongol Post Bank since 1998, when it had 50 employees and 9 branches and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
property rights (IPR) to entice international corporate investment. But who really benefits from IPR? Should multinationals feel secure that their secrets will be protected? A Q&A with Assistant Professor Fritz Foley. The Regional Slice... View Details