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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader

authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions

authority and an openness to learning, sharing, and teaching as well as to complexity, ambiguity, and risk-taking. Confidence, decisiveness, self-esteem, creativity, maturity, and integrity are other important personal traits we look for.... View Details
  • 13 May 2014
  • News

Willing Hands

a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

explains Wolfensohn, who speaks with quiet authority and more than a trace of his native accent. At the World Bank, Wolfensohn acted decisively to decentralize operations, root out corruption, utilize... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

eliminated. Voters who backed that candidate as their top choice have their second choice picks redistributed among the remaining candidates until one receives 50 percent of the vote in the recount, and a winner is declared. "RCV," the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

but the act of rule writing by government is limited. People will find ways around the rules no matter how well-intentioned the authors are. I think history proves that. So a major part of my job — and here I haven’t been so quiet — is... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

authors The I's Have It From Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations By Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Organizational conversation, in our use of the term, applies to the full range of patterns and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

the single decision-making authority of a hierarchy is optimal. The paper therefore argues that when enterprise IT is required, so is an electronic hierarchy: a collaboration in which one member has all required View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

What We’re Reading

of New York, especially during the Gilded Age. —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981) is deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post. Before joining the Post in 2010, she wrote for Time and the Los Angeles Times. She is the View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

arises from behavioral biases and misperceptions of probability distributions. Finally, nonpecuniary taste-based factors may be important in motivating both the decisions to enter into and to persist in entrepreneurship. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

always want to hear that a person is struggling, nor do they necessarily reward risk taking, even though they might pay lip service to innovative initiative. The authors outline several steps that individuals can take to shake off fear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

the point that given the rarity of the strategic approaches to resource allocation, district leaders need more guidance and tools to help them make better decisions and manage the consequences, particularly when they are under enormous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

of immediate usefulness. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade Risk by Daniel Wagner and Dante Disparte (PLDA 6) (Palgrave Macmillan) The authors call for a... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Simplification and Saving By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

Memoirs of an International First Year Student

As an Indian national who was working in the Middle East in the petroleum industry, my decision to apply for an MBA was fueled (pun intended) by two reasons. One was the obvious need to get a business perspective after staying in the... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

remain vital to Boeing's ongoing operations today. COVID-19: Mankind’s Bitter Battle, A Blueprint to Conquer an Epidemic By Rajendra K. Aneja (AMP 175, 2008) Independently published When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, author... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

on how COVID-19 might reshape city life and the business ecosystem. “As business and policy leaders try to navigate the crisis created by the pandemic, there’s an urgent need for data and evidence to help guide the decisions leaders are... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage
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