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- 17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
result of my arrogance from 30,000 feet. I failed to get the other groups invested in the program. I completely fiddle-dee-deed the long-lead timetable. I delegated the entire project to a handsome but clueless assistant product manager.... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
McCraw and I (with our coauthor, Linda S. Doyle PMD 49, 1985) summarized that style in eight points: Don’t give direct orders. Instead, listen, persuade, and cajole. Build consensus on the institutional mission. Embrace a strategy and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
(MBA 2011). This year, the NextGen Angels, led by president Brett Gibson (MBA 2011), has invested further in its big idea: launching angel groups in New York (run by Kelsey Morgan [HBS 2011]), Chicago, Boston and Austin, growing to more... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
strengths. "The work we are doing in technology right now is intended to open up a host of opportunities," explains Dean Clark. "Yes, we are making an extraordinary investment in hardware and software, but the real success of our endeavor... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
doctoral degree. “It was made clear that choosing academia requires a great deal of perseverance,” she comments. “It’s a long and difficult transition from being a consumer to a producer of knowledge, but it’s also stimulating and entrepreneurial. You work the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
happiness at 75? What are the investments I need to make so that I can be happier right now, and so I have a better shot at being happier later? So the book that I wrote, sure enough, is for career changers and mid-lifers and people who... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea."... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
of liquidity, the economy will come back, he said. The nation faces an even more formidable long-term challenge in climate change, where all panelists agreed that leadership currently is in short supply. Doerr, whose Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers... View Details