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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
30,000 Indian businesses and created nearly 1,000 jobs. “It’s really structured in the exact same way as a small venture capital or private equity firm,” says Chorengel. “It’s a proven model—you get a group of talented fund managers... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
413-031 Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The firm employed about 150 professionals around the globe and had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
links between gender and ethnic diversity and profit, finding that “companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on their executive teams were 21 percent more likely to experience above-average profitability than companies in the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About
months! Today, it seems, it simply is not possible to have a plan for a year or longer and just stick to it. Adaptive organizations challenge the status quo, test new ideas, gather feedback, and learn. They manage conflict and View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
disappointed in the performance of the company. You think the technology is solid but the management team, and particularly the CEO, isn't very strong. The board has begun to take a more active role, the founder-CEO has been made the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and earn some management exposure,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
science and public policy. Her subsequent career has followed those passions. Prior to joining Fermata Energy, Claire served as a co-founder of solar energy services provider SunEdison, which developed the groundbreaking power purchase agreement for the solar industry.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
who tackled me in football to break my leg, he was the one on my team who was behind me who threw a log and hit me from behind. JH: Oh jeez. BW: And it changed my personality for the latter years of high school. So I became sort of, I... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
in general apparel, but we may be able to identify a couple of categories—high-quality jewelry and high-end kids' apparel—that we can lock up," says Anthony W. Deering, chairman of the board and CEO of The Rouse Company, of Columbia, Md., a leading U.S. developer... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic theory and management strategy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
away,” says Todd Mulder, food services general manager for Restaurant Associates, the hospitality firm that manages all campus food operations. “They are impressed that you can get sushi made to order,” in... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
(Reporters later discovered that the signature page had been cribbed from an earlier contract extension.) In September, Pennsylvania’s Attorney General announced multiple felony charges against the district’s former fleet manager and... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Photography by Susan Young “If you’re a brain geek, this is the best time in history to be alive,” says Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010), founder and managing partner of NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience startup accelerator. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
a December 2003 meeting, about 18 months into the negotiations and after three particularly long days, Eamer and his team proposed a 100/70/30 model: All of the rare and endangered forest types would be protected, 70 percent of the trees... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
States. "Like the supermajors, we have to be global in our orientation — albeit on a smaller scale — and that includes how we manage our human resources. It can be a challenge to find skilled, multilingual employees who are willing to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
daunting challenges, but they each expressed a zealous commitment to their work and a heartfelt belief in their products. Brand Recognition: Michael Moynihan Michael T. Moynihan (MBA 1993) was reintroduced to LEGO as an adult when his job as a Cheerios brand View Details