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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
be argued, require extra income just to ensure a basic standard of living. On the supply side, corruption prevails because people find themselves paying bribes under duress. Even when one's life is not at stake, says Ramanna, if paying a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
families save to withstand economic shocks. Lawmakers should consider an option by which they could help quell the recent chaos, raise as much as $250 billion a year, strengthen families, and enhance civic engagement. It’s simple: Just... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
business down into 21 profit centers and use a strategic, cost-analysis approach to retail.” Although Hustead spent summers as a teenager working at Wall Drug, it wasn’t initially his career of choice. In 1973, after two years of college,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2024
- News
A Sporting Chance
The fall that had such a profound effect on Jorge Perez de Leza’s life would later have a big impact on others with disabilities as well. “When you hear somebody say that in one minute your life changes—it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
designed to enhance their understanding of product-development opportunities and processes in emerging markets. Then they work remotely with their Global Partner to begin developing a product or service... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
presence of war. Does the fall of Rome, the Battle of Shiloh, the Normandy Landings––and today’s wars—give proof of life or only of the struggle? The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy By Robert F.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
his achievements, and in charge of a unit in Okinawa with a classified mission. Looking back on that day, Jefferson recalls, "I never thought one incident would change my life forever." During an afternoon exercise, an explosive device... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
One spring day in 1983, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) sat down in his Watergate Tower office at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, looked out at the Kennedy Center, and worked out a strategic plan for his life. He had landed a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Instead, German defeat was due to errors of Nazi diplomacy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources (including many recently released), Hitler’s Great Gamble is a provocative work that will appeal to a wide cross-section of... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
leadership development, including crafting his own succession plan to ensure a seamless transition in the company’s 100th year. After hand-picking Dennis Muilenburg as his replacement, the two worked side-by-side for 18 months before... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation for a View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
global community, one that represents and respects the best of our collective backgrounds and traditions and that is a living example of how people from all over the world can come together around a set of common values, and though not always agreeing— sometimes even... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
this work through longitudinal data collection, research, education, and the dissemination of best practices. We are also committed to diversifying the protagonists of our case studies so they better reflect our student body. Since... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
before, which makes it more convenient for applicants. We're also working with the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which designs the GMAT, to further enhance the test with qualitative measures of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
“Back then, the valley was still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after earning his MBA and serving in the Air Force. “We’d tell them... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
yes.” Pasricha, who thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living, gave the 80 attendees a set of simple coping strategies to remain positive, find rest, and let go of the idea of rushing back to whatever life was before everything... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
the fact that they were in charge and I was working for them, my meals came out so fast. And I would share compliments, sometimes my diners would give the extra tips for them. And so I took this lesson through the rest of my three or four... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
than mere life phase. Take how they were raised. This is a generation that’s grown up as the center of attention, thrust into the nucleus of the family, with parents orbiting around them. They have been told they can be anything they want... View Details