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Konstantin Chebotar
twenty-five percent of our GDP is from oil and gas." After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree from Moscow State University and Master’s degree from Imperial College London, Konstantin spent the next six years working in the oil and gas... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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Kathleen Hebert
dealerships throughout Canada." As an undergraduate student in Kingston, Ontario, Kathleen "focused on marketing while developing my understanding of business fundamentals." She spent one summer as a marketing intern with BMW Canada and another with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
status. Even among those CEOs who plan for succession, some manage in such an imperial fashion that the potential successors wither in their shade. And in their heart of hearts, some CEOs fear being surpassed. Many companies think a horse... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. If you know something is not forever, what would you do differently? A lot of things, it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
hospital and nursing home provider. He leads M&A and quality management for the group. Earning his MD at Imperial College London, Dr. Guth began his career as a Junior Doctor at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London. Subsequently,... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome
historian Polybius’s writings on witnessing a friend weep over Carthage, the enemy city he has just destroyed; and a reading from Plutarch on how his fellow Greeks should deal with not being an imperial superpower anymore. When it comes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
off. It was incredible,” he says. The experience prompted Schmidt to leave his home near Nuremberg after high school for a one-year stint at an NGO in Indonesia, and eventually to earn his aerospace engineering degree in 2014 at Imperial... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Ferracone replies, “I think so. A good leader is accountable for the performance of the organization and stands up to it in every respect, including with his or her compensation. If a leader’s compensation is excessive relative to the market for CEOs, then that’s a... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace Author:Guhan Subramanian Publication:W.W. Norton & Company, forthcoming Abstract No abstract is available at this time. American Democracy: The Perils of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
doubt that America’s global preeminence is fading. The imperial torch is being passed to other actors. It’s happening as we speak, and for a range of reasons. Some are those Edward Gibbon pointed to in the late eighteenth-century when he... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
how such change is best achieved? Does it suggest one more reason why we should put aside the concept of the imperial leader whose wisdom is questioned only at one's risk? What does it say about the need for leadership behaviors that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Historical Research - India
rule of the British government) and from 1857 to 1947. Topics covered in varying depth include social history, urban history, trade, wars, agriculture, travel and antiquities, and Indian and Imperial politics. Making of the Modern World,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
inspires the innovative products and superior services that create lasting shareholder value. Did we expect too much from CEOs over the past decade? During that period, we saw the rise of the imperial CEO. They were treated like rock... View Details
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Ai Weiwei Strength 2019 | About
Portugal (2021); Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal (2021); Imperial War Museums, London, UK (2020); K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019); OCA, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile... View Details
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Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade
gardens, and aviaries. The good life enjoyed by American traders became possible through cheap Chinese labor and servants, who usually lived in the poor districts bordering on the wealthy areas. The politics of empire and imperialism... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
became instruments of liberty; economic ideas once marshaled to the cause of imperialism were transformed into a political economy of independence in former colonies, a political economy anchored in the essential necessity of encouraging... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time. The contributions collected in this volume address, with undeniable pertinence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
with the University of Illinois and Carnegie Mellon, the University of Dundee and Imperial College in Great Britain, and Sweden's Karolinska Institute. And he is attracting superstar scientists from around the world such as Dr. Edison... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
virtue of its size and growth, high levels of entrepreneurial energy, legalistic culture, and a number of other unusual features. In our essay we show that the business systems of Britain and the Netherlands shared many similarities. Both countries had an View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell