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- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from climate change to View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
top-management counsel, hiring the most qualified staff, and an apprenticeship process that built excellence. For example, Marvin Bower, founder of McKinsey, preached that partners had to focus on serving the right senior clients on their... View Details
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
studies, things wrong with the world, you name it. That night we talked about what we’d each do in our career if there weren't any barriers (perceived or real). For me it was working in an area such as space technology and helping push the bounds of what it means to be... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
Entrepreneurial Sales, but LTV is solely focused on pre-product-market fit startups and takes the perspective of the founder. LTV is complementary to Scaling Tech Ventures (STV), which focuses more on post product-market fit startups, and Founder Mindset, which focuses... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
the founding CEO of Palm and the cofounder of Handspring, ushering in two of the tech ages biggest leaps—handheld computing, and the smart phone. So, she's essentially been famously successful by being right about the future. We sat down... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
the Marshall Plan was not only right at the human level, it was a smart economic strategy. Are we not missing that consciousness right now? Jon Canas (AMP 86, 1981) Eustis, FL... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
stadiums, are borne by national and local governments. In terms of human capital costs, FIFA itself employs only 400 people, according to the organization's website. Even if each of its 209 country members employs another 50, that adds up... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
important tasks with corporate clients, then, is figuring out what the right questions are. "Managers need to grasp something fundamental," he says. The ZMET method is modeled after some basic theories of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
visiting scholar for the Law Society of Kenya, where he sat on a committee charged with drafting a new constitution for Kenya. He also worked with the Kenyan Human Rights Commission on monitoring and... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
We can invest in areas like agriculture, sustainable forestry, conservation, and tourism, and blend together development capital and financial capital so that everybody has the right risk-reward profile for their project. At the same... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property by Mark Blaxill (MBA ’84) and Ralph Eckardt (Portfolio) With the right intellectual property (IP) and the right strategies,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
involved here, and we need to take care of that. We also need to decide whether reproduction is some sort of human right or whether infertility is a medical condition. If the answer is yes to either of... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
want you to join us in building. Thus, this campaign was born: to reclaim the word feminist to mean “a believer in equal rights for all genders,” without regard to race or religion or ethnicity, sexual orientation or sex assignment at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
continued, to get an organization on the right track if there is a sense of crisis. “You must convey the urgency of the current situation and the requirement of doing something different.” Gerstner admitted that earlier in his career, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Book of Esports: The Definitive Guide to Competitive Video Games by William Collis (MBA 2011) RosettaBooks Almost overnight, esports—or competitive video games—have exploded into the largest entertainment and sporting phenomenon... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
answer was “it depends.” Arie Goldshlager, for example, commented: “If the organization is on the right track, it certainly can have too much rebel talent. In this situation, the rebel talent could prove largely disruptive and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
Skilling’s conduct will reopen discussions of what was the real offense committed by Skilling. The answer to this question is important because many of Skilling’s allegedly fraudulent activities fall into the “shadowed space” or “penumbra” between the clear light of... View Details