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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
someone has brought a cake. Kim shows up with two huge salads, winning cheers from the vegetarians in the group. Dan Brillon, GoLite’s COO, wears shorts and a T-shirt. Previously, he was the director of mergers and acquisitions at... View Details
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
market landscape, and the similarities that can be drawn from other regions of the Global South and beyond. "Africa Rising" is crafted to appeal to both students who have extensive experience working in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
South Asian diaspora and the South Asia–curious, that launched in 2017. It’s an open tent for anyone who’s interested in the region and its people, and most of our subscribers are currently from the United States. Michael Aft: The New... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
commercials. From one vantage, the credit industry is to blame for our economic woes. The solutions have centered on tightening credit—loaning only to homebuyers who can make a 20 percent down payment, returning to the standards of 20... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
science or treatments. Working in the ER at The Mount Sinai Hospital and Elmhurst Hospital in New York City—which was dubbed “the epicenter,” I got to see the progression of the virus. We went from “This is... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
National Scholarships to support the work of Singaporean students pursuing doctorates in science and engineering at home and abroad. The goal: to graduate 1,000 Ph.D.'s by 2015, all of them committed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Trust, JetBlue chairman Peterson explores how a culture of trust gives companies an edge. Consider this: What does it feel like to work for a firm where leaders and colleagues trust one another? Freed from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
the recent innovation has come from technologists and pedagogical talent working together to create an environment where the teacher can focus solely on trying to understand what a student knows and what he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
passion. “Work is one arena where passions can be pursued but far from the only one. There’s a lot of research showing that people who pursue their passion outside work actually end up being more satisfied... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Republican senator from the state of Maryland. “I even knew which house I wanted to live in. I was unbecomingly ambitious at an early age.” Bradley, who attended Sidwell Friends School and Swarthmore College, was View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
and given out grants — I wanted to add something new to my skill set," says the Texas native. As an intern at The Home for Little Wanderers (HLW), a New England agency that serves at-risk children, their families, and communities, Weenick... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. The enterprise has been able to reduce the cost of surgery by up to 60 percent, working with support from partners that include Duke University, World... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
(Rupa Publications) Thirty women in power answer questions that confront all working women, from how best to balance the personal and the professional to how to dismantle gender biases. The essayists... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
in a "passionate craft," as I call it in the American Psychologist article. This is something where you can be really excited about what you're doing, where you almost can't keep yourself from View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
it’s all about empowerment. Says Johnson, now a senior executive at PepsiCo in New York, “Coming to work and doing no harm is very different from coming to work and changing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter conventional wisdom about group creativity is one purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron