Technical Institutes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination

patented, and whether or not a viable company could be based on it. This is pre–business plan stuff. It’s still so far out there that it’s not clear it will ever have any commercial impact. So the scientists and engineers on the teams have to do the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

graduation from Harvard Business School and which successfully developed and commercialized a market-leading drug to treat cardiovascular disease. But in addition to drawing on technical degrees and experience, as the leader of a company... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and outlook than they do on... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

institution needed to do better. It made us more mindful that society had new expectations of business leaders, and we needed to redouble our focus on developing leaders with both the competence and character to make a difference in the... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

is needed. So how did Houghton, who would become renowned for his inclusive, team-oriented, nice-guy leadership, get everybody’s attention? “I hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Houghton recalls with a smile. That... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

advisor to the newly formed government of East Timor. “You had yesterday’s freedom fighters now trying to figure out how to run a country,” he says. “Our job was to help them navigate the big policy and technical issues of various... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

scale—was the need to pass a budget for the 2018–2019 school year, technically due just a few weeks after Cognetti was sworn in as a director. Given the district’s financial watch status, however, the state allowed a three-month extension... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

Internet properties—I mean there over 350 million around the world, all of those internet properties don’t have technical ability or budget. And if you don’t help provide a service to them, then the internet starts to kind of bifurcate... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

the Top: How Director Conversations Shape Culture by Melinda Muth (MBA 1981) and Bob Selden Australian Institute of Company Directors The authors examine how director conversations shape organizational culture. They provide board members... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

has converted part of her luxury accessory company's factory and is leading other New York City leather goods and apparel factories to produce 30-50,000 masks per week for Weill Cornell and other hospitals and healthcare organizations. “We did a lot of research on the... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

successful entrepreneurs talked about with the authors. Learning to handle emotions, manage uncertainty, cope with technical complexity, and build long-term relationships are equally or even more important. This book spotlights eight big... View Details

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