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- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
budgeting, management development, and performance reviews are needed to ensure timely implementation of the organization’s goals and strategy to the highest standards desired by its leadership. Selection: The leadership in any organization has to work View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
over 100 percent in raw and net of market returns over the past two years to determine the likelihood of a crash (defined as a 40 percent drawdown) after a large price run-up. They also collected all of the characteristics of price... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
As birthday parties go, this one was special. The faculty canceled classes, and the administrative staff collectively stepped away from their desks to join in daylong festivities marking the School’s 100th birthday on April 8. A... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
has collected the best of her wit and wisdom on management thinking and practice. Looking back across the changing landscape of business, Kanter helps reveal what has worked, what has not, and what businesses still need to learn. She also... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
your 10th anniversary with MaiTai Global this year. Tell me how MaiTai got started. Bill Tai: So MaiTai, first of all, it's a very unusual group. It's a collection of athletes, and entrepreneurs, and innovators. And we have active... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
region is a collection of diverse cultures, stages of economic development, and political infrastructures,” he observes. “What works in one country may not work in others.” In such tricky conditions, struggling entrepreneurs need the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
assess how things were going but not too soon to tap into their collective insights on launching a new venture. Private or nonprofit sector, up market or down, the observations that follow highlight the many approaches to what it means to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
collection process and soon became cash-flow positive. Looking back over the past six years, Ellis regards The Partners of ’63 as a success. “We’re making and renewing friendships, having a lot of fun, and accomplishing a great deal,”... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
the pledge of allegiance at their naturalization ceremony. Fifteen years after the couple had fled a dictatorship in Brazil, they achieved their dream of becoming United States citizens. Those are just a few of the more than 70 stories View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
on the Angie’s List “campus”—a collection of buildings the company bought and renovated in Indianapolis— when an employee asks to take a selfie with her. While she has been the name and the face of the company since she cofounded it 22... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike
Ideally, the specifics of the No-Fist mechanism would be part of the initial collective bargaining agreement, since agreement on true variable costs of operations could be difficult and to some extent arbitrary. Estimates of real variable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
work she started in the summer by doing an independent study analyzing data that had been collected and conducting more in-depth interviews with founders. “The insights will be useful both to VCs and female business founders,” she says. View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform
remained on advertising. In 1988, she launched a Madison Avenue agency, Masterson Rothberg, which quickly collected its own big clients, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Citicorp, and IBM, as well as a reputation as a hot young agency. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
problems other countries have faced.” “We put a lot of effort into making these workshops more than an academic exercise,” says Ballou-Aares. “Our focus was on how organizations can build partnerships across sectors, learn from one another, and advance the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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The MBA at a Crossroads
Moreover, the deans had reason to be optimistic because the leading edge of change was already under way, and program changes like the ones described in the book, despite being challenging, could be achieved through individual and View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend
COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Flashpoint serves as the scout. Its analysts speak a dozen different languages and gain access to discrete hacker forums, collect information on potential threats being discussed by credit card thieves and terrorists alike, and then... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
from homeowner hell, and at a fair price? “These are not things we embrace,” says Angie Hicks (MBA 2000), cofounder and chief marketing officer of Angie’s List, an online service that collects verified consumer reviews of service... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
site refreshes. Embrace innovative thinking. Rakuten discovered that its Indonesian customers were hesitant to key in credit-card information due to security concerns. The solution: Mikitani heeded the advice of a local partner to create delivery teams on mopeds to... View Details