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01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) Page Two This is not a book about View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

accelerates recovery rates to such an extent that it creates a treadmill situation—we have to run very hard just to stay even with existing production levels." Information technology is also used to sift through geological data in the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

particular issue or set of questions to be explored through experimentation, observation, and analysis. The principal investigators are assisted by doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, data scientists, visiting... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator

grateful student fans, Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

communicating that we want this to be a good, healthy place to work.” Achieving that buy-in comes from an explicit, public focus on that goal, incorporating creative employee ideas about how to achieve it, he adds—all backstopped by hard... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

Worcester, Brockton Interfaith Community, Elevated Thought in Lawrence, as well as statewide initiatives, such as Data for Black Lives, EdLaw Project, and Lawyers for Civil Rights. Grant decisions are made by representatives from the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Feb 2019
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We’re All Going to Get Hacked

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books

offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections

to indicate competence at the young firm, thereby validating it and its potential for firm-level success," she says. Higgins and Gulati began their research by documenting the career histories of top managers from Boston-area biotech companies. They gathered additional... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

investment attractive to Wall Street and Main Street. REITs take off. Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat

expressive, and urgent all at once, the message and its delivery were signature Bradley. The Atlantic was already online, of course, but that was about all visitors to the site would find—a direct transfer of the print publication to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

veteran Valleyite Christina L. Darwall (MBA '75). For more than two decades, Darwall has been a player in the Valley's business community, working first for McKinsey & Co., where she became a principal, and then as senior vice president and chief financial officer of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2019
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The Race Against Resistance

ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

Nair, who received his medical training in India and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Gita's case demonstrates not only the importance of getting good primary care but also that patients are willing to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

explained his focus on education and literacy by saying that "education is the key" for a new economy characterized by, and based upon, lifelong learning, multiple careers, and the acquisition and creation of intellectual property. His concern, he said, stemmed from... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

leadership. The writing team also added business executive Kent Lineback, whose executive experience included roles at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Harvard Business School Publishing before he turned to executive coaching... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

spiritual organizations in the Boston area as well as in his native India. Dahod at Altiostar’s data center Dahod at Altiostar’s data center Dahod at home with his wife, Shamim Dahod at home with his wife,... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 1998
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Short Takes

explores these differences in a working paper titled "Limits to Globalization: Organizational Homogeneity and Diversity in the Semiconductor Industry." Extensive interviews with managers at nine major firms (four American and five Japanese) and an analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

“We spoke to folks in California and Texas, asking questions about coalition building, data collection, evaluation, stakeholder management, and community engagement,” she says. “This was at a time when COVID-19 was exposing a big range of... View Details