Employee Training - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

management practices. Using data for 58 countries, we show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and regulations, the social responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details

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Clarence Kennedy and the Art of Photography | Baker Library

friendship with Land implanted [both] artistic ambitions and the artistically trained at Polaroid from very early on.” (9) Previous Chapter: Research in Black and White Next Chapter: Ansel Adams and Polaroid R&D Smith College Bulletin,... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

Gamble's leadership training programs. There's nothing like having to step into a decision maker's shoes to learn about leadership." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "If you can find work that both stretches you and plays to your strengths,... View Details

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

dental assistant would be more likely to sign up for cadaver donation with his spouse than a married female firefighter would with hers. The findings indicate that donation program directors may want to target possible donors by sending educational information to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

harmonization strategies. The analysis and framework in this paper can help broaden the understanding of accounting's globalization. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875682 Cases & Course MaterialsElizabeth Jacobs:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

performance—and the issues about how top executives seem to be getting a different kind of deal than employees get, there is a fundamental cynicism about the free enterprise system. The closed CEO labor market and the consequences it has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

these technological waves, the imperative to reskill—through training programs designed to facilitate the transition from obsolete to in-demand occupations—has gained prominence, particularly in response to the rise of new AI-based... View Details

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

experience I have ever had. Workers were warm and welcoming, generous with their time, conscientious in their responses to our questions, and fun! We traveled to the platforms by helicopter (the platforms are located in the Gulf of Mexico over 100 miles off the coast)... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

04 Oct 2011
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LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island but, before the final train came on stream, became entangled in a widening corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

technical training for its long-tenured tool-and-die professionals. “We are now a core group, and for anything beyond that we bring in people on a project and per-hour basis,” Chirchirillo explains. “We are doing more just-in-time work;... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

click." Reinvestment—where "if someone succeeds, their felt obligation is to put it in the community"—is also increasing, said Stevenson, not just through angels, venture capitalists and other investors, but through View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

with Laura, to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rogers was impressed with the emphasis on values as well as profit at Cummins, where he worked both as a customer-service supervisor and as a purchasing agent. "I had always believed in treating... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

and push for improvement from their employees and clinicians. If we can shift attention to the organizations that have found a way to achieve both aims—financial and quality—that’s really the exciting direction. But getting there is not... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

2000, recovery, Great Recession in 2008, recovery--that it makes trend analysis (and consistent productivity growth) impossible. A related argument is that when labor is relatively cheap, growing companies are encouraged to hire more low-productivity help than View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

many Cicero employees now volunteer or work pro bono on company time mentoring, coaching, and training, as well as gathering and analyzing data to frame the best approaches to ending homelessness. One outcome of this work is a database... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2007
News

Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

five-year plan, and I can't analyze things with spreadsheets. I get bored." The same has held true for how Wyss has approached his career. Asked if he ever thought he would spend thirty years building a medical device company into a $2.3 billion organization with some... View Details

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

form of new capabilities and team-member resilience. We then highlight the critical roles of leadership and of communication and conflict management training as strategies for overcoming the challenges to team effectiveness in NPD, as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

network, which would increase its patient population but at rates much lower than it currently charges by only taking private patients. Dr. Wheelis is also pondering whether to start a non-profit foundation as a way of getting money to support its teaching and View Details