Practical Wisdom - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

Nohria after stepping down. “They truly are the measure of the School, and I am deeply grateful for their wisdom and their support. So much of the progress we made together during this last decade can be linked to the strength and talent... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools. Made for Amazing: An Instrumental Journey of Authentic Leadership Transformation by Mark Nation (MBA 2001) (Greenleaf Book Group Press) In this self-help parable, Nation tells the... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

practices to lead some 150 consultants and employees in the building of the aquarium against almost impossible financial odds. "I started the early design meetings with a nondenominational prayer," says Stuart, an Episcopalian who also... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

literary way. The Money Train: 10 Things Young Businesses Need to Know About Investors By David Pattison (AMP 152, 1997) Practical Inspiration Publishing Before you get on the money train, here’s what you need to know. Say you have a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Legumes, Nuts, Seeds, and More, Based on the Wisdom of Leading American Chefs by Karen Page (MBA 1989) (Little Brown and Co.) People have chosen to adopt... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

Coast California’s most powerful and affluent family dynasties. Charlie Whistler’s Omnium Gatherum: Campfire Stories and Adirondack Adventures by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

from whence and why they came, we edge closer to the wisdom that makes being 60-something pretty damned interesting. Jeffrey Jenest (MBA 1978) One student’s teachings Eight years ago, I was a math teacher and principal of a school in... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

first, but eventually she went back to working forty hours a week. After more than a year of being pulled in too many directions, she made the decision to leave and start a part-time consulting practice in Boston. Although she is still... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage. He was essentially taking all... View Details

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