Going Public - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

head, heart, and soul,” he says. “I know you are not going to want to disappoint me, and you know I am not going to disappoint you.” For decades, the authors say, both liberals and conservatives have wrongly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Maha Malik

View Video Born and raised in Islamabad by two parents actively involved in the public sphere—her mother worked at the Ministry of Labor and Manpower, her father at the World Bank—Maha Malik (MPP/MBA 2019) appreciated politics at the most... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

bookstore activity and industry conferences; and an analysis of 915 newspaper and trade publication articles that mentioned independent bookselling in some fashion. He even attended a training course on how to open an independent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

customers can access public information about brokers through Finra, they generally lack the time, resources, and expertise to harness the data. And even though most claimants hire lawyers to represent them in arbitration, brokerages... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

05 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Video: Welcome MBA Class of 2025

yours as a gift. That's what the case method enables you to do over a period of time as you practice it. Active listening. Technology and the impact of technology on business is accelerating at a very fast pace. The societal challenges that we face are View Details

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

implications for public policy. As for jobs and what has come to be known as outsourcing, Gaurav Goel commented, "Low-cost labor is not the deciding factor in the success of outsourcing (vs.) people with the right attitude ."... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

in school with the option to join the company when they graduate, Fuller’s analysis finds that three-quarters of employers wind up happy with their trainees and two-thirds of apprentices go on to college or career. “Employers see a real... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

for all of the first year and the first semester of the second year before moving off campus to live with my partner in Back Bay (about a 10 minute drive from campus, a 50+ minute public transportation ride door to door). First, if you’re... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

director of the firm Lighthouse Capital Partners, York made Series A investments in companies including Netflix, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and NVIDIA, among many others. Witnessing her parents’ commitment to activism and public service when... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

really paying attention to. It turns out from our research, it matters a lot.” Going beyond the term sheet McDonald, along with Columbia University’s Dan Wang and Emily Cox Pahnke from the University of Washington, examined 71,624 funding... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

return Keurig to growth? Keywords: Turnaround ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Decisions ; Initial Public Offering ; Global Strategy ; Growth and Development Strategy ; Going View Details

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

for it to back away from the public commitment he made. If the company now fails to respond with a competitive bid, it is likely to take a greater hit in the stock market than if he had simply kept quiet and let you bid. By increasing the... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Summer Fellowship) NetaCarbon is the TurboTax for carbon credit – a carbon credit issuance platform that digitizes and streamlines the process of how carbon projects are created and managed. By reducing the time and cost for project developers to View Details

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

marketing to them. I had the opportunity to work with brands on exclusive show sponsorships, large tentpole events and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation to restore public school music programs. When my husband and I moved to Boston, I... View Details

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

You get paid to live and work in a national park? Doing management consulting? No way . As a native Californian and landscape photographer, so many of my favorite childhood and adult memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

Panama or private canal operator would have charged profit-maximizing rates and captured much of that surplus of itself. Under US public ownership, however, low tolls ensured that most of the surplus would flow to American producers and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees - Recruiting

explicit discussion of race is considered taboo at many companies, and, more often than not, business leaders remain silent on the issue. That cloak of silence from the top tends to enfold all employees. Ellis Cose, an author of several books about race and View Details

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

go well, subsequent interviews will provide the opportunity to ask in-depth questions regarding what the company is looking for, how the board operates, what the selection process will be, and the timing. Before you get too far into the... View Details

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