Local Elites - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

bestseller, and in 2014, became a major motion picture starring Mark Wahlberg. Matt Brady (MBA 2016) lived this mission. As a pilot in an elite Army helicopter unit called the Night Stalkers, he was tasked with delivering Luttrell and... View Details

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there. And instead of looking for blame... View Details

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

the underlying basis for learning. We find that intraorganizational knowledge spill-ins transfer heuristics crafted by one unit under local conditions of reliability and validity to other units, where they are reinterpreted and... View Details

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

hypotheses and mixed support for our third: organizational infrastructure and identity significantly affect practice adoption, albeit in different ways, but only marginal support for leadership and elite organizational status. Our results... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

This sector has been dominated both in size and performance by the endowments of elite universities such as the Ivy League schools. The top 20 endowments grew more than 9% annually on a real basis between 1992 and 2005. As of 2007, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

B-17s instead touched down on the dirt runway at Tri Duby airfield, miles behind German lines. When James Holt Green (MBA 1935) dropped out of the forward crew hatch he was surrounded by a throng of people—Soviet officers, Slovak partisans, American airmen, and View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

society. These are not new concerns. Scholars, educators, and political and economic elites in China and India have been pondering them for centuries and continue to do so today, with enormously high stakes. In Making Meritocracy, Tarun... View Details

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