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- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
she and Zuckerberg have implemented longer bereavement plans and more flex time for coping with life tragedies, policies which, if they spread to other companies, would offer a tangible payoff for all this job-mandated vulnerability. “I work on something I really... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
arbiter of domestic decorum, Stewart said her business owes its success to the "respectability and trust" she has built with her audience over the years. From rewiring a vintage lamp to baking the perfect pie shell, "we're intent on... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Iron Lady
Development Bank, Oteh is now the director-general of Nigeria’s SEC and the country’s chief financial regulator. At a conference in London in September, Oteh revealed her intention to strengthen the country’s capital markets in order to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Dan Geffken (MBA '87)
Five years ago, Dan Geffken had every intention of attending his 10th Reunion — he was the organizer of his section's party. Days before the festivities were to begin, however, he and his wife, Brenda, received a phone call informing them... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
good intentions but poor results. Had those good intentions been directed in a different and more sustainable manner, it could have made a big impact,” he says. Another compelling lesson in good, if... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
executive of the Rockefeller family’s global investment company. Intent on narrowing his international focus and extending his impact, Barry founded Zephyr Management in 1994. The firm invests in small and medium- sized businesses in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
greatest wizard of all time. Although Barron's novels are generally found in the science fiction or young adult sections of bookstores, his intentions transcend such categories. "I'm writing for thoughtful people of all ages, people who... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain
diagnosis -- a "road map" or "operating guide" for breast cancer patients. While Just Get Me Through This! includes medical information from her coauthor, Dr. Robert M. Gelfand, its primary intent is to help women manage the day-to-day... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
you for “Show Me the Money” in the June issue, enriched as it was by the considerable input from Raymond Baker (MBA ’60) of Global Financial Integrity. You are right: Everybody is against corruption. But Mr. Baker seems intent on doing... View Details
- 27 Jun 2022
- News
How Can I Build Credibility with My Team?
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
decades of their lives, from the time they're 3 until they're 24, with the intent to help them break the cycle of poverty. We operate in some of the most poverty-stricken areas, serving about a quarter of a million children in 10... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
how it changed my relationship with my wife. When I was president of Micron, I was commuting from California to Boise, Idaho, on a weekly basis and coaching our kids’ sports teams. Something had to give. It wasn’t intentional but what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Coworkers
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal
(Big Think) (Big Think) Over at Big Think—described as “a YouTube for ideas,” and cofounded by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003)—JetBlue Chairman Joel Peterson (MBA 1973) offers advice on how to cope with betrayal. Betrayal, Peterson says, comes with giving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
Originally intent on going to law school in order to work for educational change, Goldberg determined that she would have a bigger impact on education by gaining management skills. “I looked around and saw that many of the people I... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY READ MORE STORIES Those ideas include Ely’s research showing that good intentions and occasional, off-the-shelf training are not sufficient... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
the highlands of east Africa, it is HIV and TB patients to whom Porter listens intently as they describe their care and treatment. It’s July 2007, and Porter is on a fact-finding trip to Rwanda, part of his work for the Global Health... View Details
- 06 Apr 2022
- News
5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to a recent paper coauthored by... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson