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- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
differently.” One course that sparked Magwegwe’s imagination was Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), taught by Professor Richard Vietor, author of How Countries Compete. “It provided great insights for strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
world was so different then — no cell phones, software, biotech, or espresso. It’s sure to change as much for today’s graduates, with opportunities to create products and services not yet imagined. When I graduated I took a job consulting in New York City to hone my... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
interaction might look like, imagine that a golf club manufacturer sells a nine iron online, then invites the buyer to upload a video of their swing for critique by a pro. Or a music store sells an instrument, then offers the buyer online... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
evidence to destroy and which to hide. “I had known that the British government had destroyed evidence, but I had always imagined in my mind that it was this big haphazard bonfire type process,” Elkins says. “And it wasn’t, really. It was... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a... View Details
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Commencement 2017 Address | About
excessive pride, or self-interest will be magnified. Hold yourself to a higher standard. Imagine that someday you may be the case protagonist that future generations of MBAs will debate. Ask yourself: How can I be a leader students will... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency as well. As head of investments for Sri Lanka’s Western... View Details
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
opportunities in industry and services. "It is difficult to imagine how that will continue there has to be some solution and that solution has to be governmental." Several were more philosophical about the issue. As Wayne... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
they reported that "Without exception, these (resource management) activities are distributed more widely across the organization than is usually imagined posing huge problems where coherence is a central requisite for efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
short-term view while following their emotions. These "irrationals" are less well informed than they imagine (and certainly less well-informed than traditional economists assume). As an antidote to these problems, behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
information from a desktop to the device. Once the capability became clear, he said, he too wanted to learn chicken-scratch graffiti. That push-button capability linking to a vast array of information from a desktop, he indicated, had fired people's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
environment. Someone who has the ability to challenge the status quo and innovate. What part of your role is different from what you imagined it might be? So much! I moved from New York to LA about 11 months ago for this job at Netflix.... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits While reading your letters, I always imagine that you are sitting opposite me, and we are conversing together, as we used to do in old times. — John Heard to Elizabeth Heard, 1842 56 Influence of the China... View Details
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Care “Redefining Health Care has caught the imagination of many of the most influential voices in NHS reform and has been occupying minds at the highest level throughout this year. ...It is a rewarding read for anyone serious about... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
complementary channels has opened up possibilities that would not have been imaginable with the more traditional, siloed approach. JA: I would give the example of Glossier, which is a digitally native, direct-to-consumer cosmetics... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
collapse before intervening. The liquidationist views of that era have been thoroughly discredited, and we should not return to them now. The answer to our problems is not to imagine we can take apart every big bank, or pretend they’ll be... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
rejected could be a knock to their egos. Resentful feelings emerged in one study where participants were asked to imagine they gave career advice to a colleague. The participants whose advice was ignored in this scenario were... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Women's Leadership in Technology and Finance - Blog: RGE Report
technical abilities you don’t have , and who have a high emotional quotient with soft skills you aspire to mirror. Doing this will help you raise your company to heights you never could have imagined alone. There is no “i” in “team.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
innovation task of designing can be crowdsourced. Local Motors has a community of over 25,000 designers and engineers that is continually innovating for the firm. Who could have imagined that cars could be developed through an extensive... View Details