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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
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
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
to have,’ it’s an unstable territory,” Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995), executive chairman and CIO of London-based Tristan Capital Partners, recently told the Financial Times. In founding his real estate investment firm, he and his partners paid particular View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
professional level. She broke off her engagement to another man and reconnected with Ryan after a five-year hiatus, then moved to Scranton in June 2016. Cognetti’s post on the school board is unpaid but takes up a significant amount of her time; her other main View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Policy Christensen is most widely remembered for his contributions to case-method teaching, but that focus was actually the second of what he called “the two great adventures” of his career. Born in 1919 in Tyler, Minnesota, Christensen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
Congress came back into session in January 2025. Voters may no longer feel they have to answer calls from strangers, but government offices surely do, and on Capitol Hill, nonstop ringing phones direct lawmakers’ focus to constituent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
of the Match.com aesthetic?” This second iteration of online dating is pretty much the exact opposite of Match.com. The new era of online dating entrepreneurs has heard the complaints of women overwhelmed by lewd attention on dating... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Herzlinger has led by example. Married for 47 years and the mother of two Harvard College graduates, she has maintained a steadfast focus on research, course development, teaching, and advocacy. Although her early days as a faculty member... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
According to Moffett, the intense focus on how and when various TV channels will be unbundled and rebundled in new subscription packages is misplaced, despite the recent flurry of attention given offerings... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking price. “The total effect of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
the key to a high-performing organization, and it’s at the core of the Lincoln Electric case,” agrees Professor Tom DeLong. In his course Managing Human Capital, DeLong challenges his students’ assumptions about incentives, motivation, and compensation by contrasting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
productive teamwork. Enhance creativity through more flexible organizational structures. Bet on people. Think big. Say no respectfully. McArthur liked to say that the faculty was the “whole ball game,” and in fact, he lavished time and View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
of society. Donham now declared that in institutions (such as his own) that called themselves schools of “business administration,” too much emphasis had been placed on the first of these two words and too little on the second. Admin-istration, he said, required... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
the new hires in US venture capital firms in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused national attention on the need for increased... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
New Jersey, I was the project director for the introduction of the Exclusive Bus Lane (XBL) on the New Jersey approach to the Lincoln Tunnel. This was the first contraflow freeway bus lane anywhere; it remains the highest hourly passenger-volume bus lane in the world.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
you and make it easier to ask for aid from others. Build a definable set of skills and knowledge that add value to others. You will probably want flexibility at some point, and this is how you get it. Be concrete and document your talents. Aim for the top line. Too... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details