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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Given her unique perspective as head of a publishing powerhouse, Moore seemed the ideal member of the MBA Class of 1978 to provide an overview of major trends that have shaped the last 25 years. From her spacious corner office in Manhattan’s Time & View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
A Visible Example of What’s Possible
Linda Oubre (MBA 1984) is living the same dream she hopes her students can realize. “In a world where only 18 percent of business school deans are women, and less than one percent are African American, I live the life of someone who no... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
since early 2012, and it’s been an experience he never expected as “a guy who spent the first 40 years of his life never thinking about anywhere outside the US.” “I fell in love with this place (Kenya)... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
father [Robert K. Merton, a National Medal of Science winner whose work in theoretical sociology at Columbia University has spanned fifty years] has been a strong influence in your life and your career. What did he say when you told him?... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
much better job at work and probably always wonder if you aren't missing out on one of the great life experiences. You can decide to have kids and give up your career, and always wonder if you are not maximizing who you could be. You... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
schools. We All Leak Eventually: Stories from a Humorously Unbalanced Mind by Larry Castriotta (MBA 1973) (Larry Castriotta) Writing of his life growing up in a small town within a tight, loving family, Castriotta revisits his childhood... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
in the theory called disruption. And then, there was a second puzzle. And that is, I wonder if innovation is intrinsically a crapshoot because everybody-- every company and every project, when you started out, you don't plan to fail. You always are View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
you're being expected to perform and to perform on time. Switz: Yes, so at GE, I completely hid this psychotic break and we basically, told the company that I had a thyroid disorder and had been in the hospital, as a result. And even, the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
plastics, appliances, NBC, much of its finance operation, and soon, it’s rumored, even the lighting division. The reason for this, according to Immelt, is what’s drawn him to Boston—the city’s leadership position in technology, medicine, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
resulting in quadriplegia. We were determined not to let this injury define or limit us, and we've continued to live life to its fullest, working and traveling around the world. But early on, we found it very difficult to plan trips, as... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
life through a massive corporate effort designed to weave environmental thinking into every aspect of the business. "We believe that being environmentally conscious makes good competitive sense," he explains. "For example, we aggressively... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity eBusiness, who View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
external. “The complaint was that we were violating people’s expectations of what the Atlantic was supposed to be,” he says. “But David insisted on discipline, a high degree of intellectual honesty, and staying true to the magazine’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Reinventing Radio Days
Kennedy Main article: Where Innovation Rules As a kid, Joe Kennedy (MBA 1985) got hooked early on the magic of radio, listening in bed at night to a crystal set he had built himself. Radio returned to his life in 2004 when—after an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
approaching 40 who has a seemingly idyllic life, professional success, and a great marriage, but who wonders what happened to the life she had promised to herself when she was young. In a world in which women are View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
much more than I did when I was younger. The organization is pretty hectic and my lifestyle is relatively chaotic. I could work 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We talk quite a bit here though about mind, body, and soul and how at different stages of your View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but with the quality and shelf View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
inevitably lose because they paid a premium price. They lose to the people who have more patience and more discipline. Third, it’s easy to talk in the abstract, but in real life you see situations that are just plain mispriced, where an... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
wedding in 2003. Then life got very complicated. Less than twelve months after getting married, Jen was diagnosed with MFH sarcoma, a rare cancer of the soft tissue. For two years, she endured painful rounds of chemotherapy in her valiant... View Details