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- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
as one observer puts it — while leaders are the charismatic, big-picture visionaries, the ones who change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
of origin or communicate virtually with other customers who share aspects of their DNA. “Genealogy is a technology business now,” observes Lorrie Norrington (MBA 1989), a board member at Ancestry.com. “The records go so far, but how do we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Barney. “It’s basically my career, crystallized,” he observes wryly. The trophies, and the magazine covers nearby, tell a very different story from Kim’s earlier, modest self-assessment. With offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
presidency in 1995, Zobel, still in his mid-30s, became president and CEO. In 2006 he was appointed chairman, retaining the role of CEO while his brother Fernando became president and COO. "My father placed a lot of trust in us," observes... View Details
- 18 Oct 2023
- News
Spreading the Words
believes are within reach now that the organization has developed a proof of concept. “Success will be eradicating illiteracy in 20 years,” observes Khan. “It’s a massive goal, but you’ve got to shoot for the summit of Everest; if you... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Action Plan: In Context
of well-to-do clients signed up to learn how to be good hosts and how to pronounce the names of European luxury brands. More than an etiquette teacher, Ho sees herself as a “microcultural anthropologist” who is constantly observing her... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
the sport a handy balance of attractiveness for new entrants and stickiness for the long-timers. Seniors, in particular, couldn’t get enough of it. McCarthy and Gordon observed the mob scenes at public courts everywhere and decided to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
work well, the best way to capture it would be to observe the same person managing different teams and evaluate whether the team improves as this person arrives. It’s not science fiction; this kind of analysis can be done with the data... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
world. Her dream is to lead a global organization -- like Save the Children -- that "makes an impact on people all over the world." There is no substitute, she says, for the satisfaction of helping others. "The capacity that people have that goes unseen continues to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in strange ways,” observes Ogunlesi, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
employment in the United States without dipping into the twelve-month employment limit of most student visas. “I learned so much about the School and how much integrity and honesty there is in everyone here,” she observes of the process.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
share that enthusiasm with a group that is also unlikely to fit the traditional insurance mold: people in their 20s, 30s, and even 40s. Terry, who worked in product management at Liberty Mutual for a dozen years, observes that life used... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
really find our place in the script of it. Like the framework itself, we've been able to observe a pretty stable architecture for effective change stories. So they honor the past, both the good stuff and the bad. They include that quite... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to broad-based ownership. “It is the... View Details