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- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
with local business partners, tackling real-world challenges through intensive project work for up to 10 days. While the novel ideas the students generate for a new product, service, or experience for consumers are often well received by the partner company’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this group of public-sector educators.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
Embarrassing losses to the JVs have the varsity crew members dispirited and complaining about one another. Confidence is fading fast. The national rowing tournament is a week away. Should Coach P simply declare the JV boat to be the new... View Details
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Darrin Rahn
in the Chicago market focused on buying high-quality feed. The word spread, and we were selling top-grade hay across the US by the semi load." Darrin continued to work the business through high school and college. At Iowa State, he entered a View Details
Keywords: CPG
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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
2008 Lifetime Achievement Award in Economic Development from the U.S. Department of Commerce ( press release ) 2007 Redefining Health Care named James A. Hamilton book of the year by the American College of Healthcare Executives, with... View Details
- Web
Europe - Global Activities 2021
national and regional governments to address the employment challenges facing refugees. ” Brian Trelstad Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Integrating Newcomers The case “Just Arrived: Integrating Refugees in Sweden”—written by... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he said. Too much leverage... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
nuclear designs are subject to rigorous casualty testing and national licensing, there is no reason to think of nuclear power any differently than we think of other technologies and their use in civil society, such as civil aircraft and... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
returned home to Nigeria for a year of National Youth Service, a program designed to engage young people in the development of the country. During her year in Nigeria, Kuyoro considered her next steps and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
me to achieve my top priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
1986 – “Competition and Strategy” course becomes part of core MBA curriculum at Harvard Business School 1990 – Publishes The Competitive Advantage of Nations 1994 – Founds The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) 1998 –... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a pioneer in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
fitness center, and introduced an annual speaking competition award. I have also donated a General Patton section at the National D-Day Museum here in New Orleans. I first began writing books at Ohio University, beginning with Guide to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
Growing up in Sharon, Massachusetts, Andrew W. Kendall (MBA 1988) developed a natural affinity for the outdoors from family trips to the beach and from hiking, snowshoeing, and camping in New England's mountains and forests. It wasn't... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
nations are now suffering." There was little agreement over how these barriers might be addressed. While suggesting "less and not more help from government," Doug Elliott nevertheless reminded us that many of those workers... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace