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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
more vigorously to assert who they are socially, psychically, and culturally,” remarks Koehn. “As a value proposition, luxury goods are very sensitive to timing and ego.” Adaptation, however, is a risky business. “You can’t rely on... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
results—the “service trifecta”; (6) use technology to elevate the most important and eliminate the worst service jobs; (7) take steps to develop a core of customers who are “owners”; and (8) build agile service organizations that learn,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
organizations. That may sound like standard practice today, but ten years ago a lot of nonprofit leaders were deeply suspicious of “suits” showing up with advice lifted wholesale from the for-profit arena. They had tried that before, and it didn’t work. Bradach and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
One is a very scientific mission and the other is a commercial mission. On the scientific side, our objective is literally to reverse engineer the human neocortex. Figure out how the brain works. That is the core of who we are and why... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
and a well-crafted plan to capitalize on it, iTrust slowly assembled a core management team during its inaugural year and, with relief, graduated from its free, but shabby, space to a modern office complex in Gurgaon, a booming suburb... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
those traders’ companies were then paying $20,000 a month. Parker thought he could provide a better service for $500 a month. He was proposing to sell $100,000 worth of debentures and stock representing 10 percent of the company, giving TDC an implied View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
their experiences, a primer on ETFs, and Jack Brennan’s Leadership Principles. From the emergence of index funds to the success of exchange-traded funds, Inside Vanguard is a near-Shakespearian drama of individual human struggle and triumph. Divestitures: Creating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and allowed Christianity and Islam into China for the first time. Tang presents Taizong’s wisdom in conversations between him and his advisers that reveal core aspects of leadership, among them: how to assess oneself and others, how to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
overlap," Carty emphasizes. "As managers, our challenge is to convince all of our employees and their unions' leadership to change the way we have done business in the past and to create more economic value in the business for the benefit... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
social change campaigns to the rest, Crutchfield reveals powerful lessons for change-makers who seek to affect society and the planet for the better. Corporate Diversification: Opportunities Created by the Winds of Change by Brooks Fenno (MBA 1962) Archway Are your... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to investors. This initiative is... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
fourth-generation Stuart-they have come to form the core of his life quest. "The real question that has fascinated me is, How do you develop those two values within an organization at the end of the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
particularly business travelers, will appreciate the efficiency of this scenario. But can “air taxis” really take off in the current economic climate? Will companies economize by placing an even greater value on executives’ time and book... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni. But the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
physical classroom, especially for younger students. They need that support, that community, but in terms of the core learning part of it, I think this crisis will open folks’ minds all the more to using online tools for learning. JJHK: I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
profit-making; unlike financial performance, there is no common currency of measurement and aggregation," Ebrahim explains. "The value created by social-sector organizations accrues to society rather than to a set of owners or... View Details
- 12 May 2022
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Onboarding
couple of hiccups on some other ones, which I won’t go into, but in fact, there was one I stepped off from because I couldn’t accept how it was being run. So you just have to do what you think is right for where you are going to play a part. And if you can’t play that... View Details