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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

disintegrated despite their shared commitment to communism, helping the West win the Cold War. Professor Jeremy Friedman will explore whether their alignment will prove more durable this time around, and what that could mean for the... View Details

Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

economics and political system. Datar: MBAs need to understand what it means to be a general manager in a global world and the differences in institutions, norms, cultures, and legal frameworks. It would be fascinating, for example, to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

2008
Working Paper

The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance: Being a Leader, and the Effective Exercise of Leadership, A New Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business. The intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Business Education; Knowledge; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Performance Effectiveness; Attitudes; Behavior; Perspective

Citation

19 Dec 2018
News

Online Retailers Aim to Shake Up the Wedding Market

Keywords: online retail; weddings; fashion; e-commerce; Retail Trade

07 Dec 2016
News

Anomalie Cuts the Markups Out of Custom Wedding Dresses

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Research Summary

Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details

Keywords: April White

Person Page

Read excerpts from DENIAL

By: Richard S. Tedlow

The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears

Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)

From Denial: Why Business... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

My Pandemic Pivot

Illustration by Mattes - Getty Images The pandemic has had deep and global impacts, driving change in almost every field and industry. These transformations have been personal, too, and the Bulletin used our social media channels to ask alumni how it changed the way... View Details

Research Summary

The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

organizations, a deep sense of purpose was their key to growth. Humans are wired to find meaning in what we do, and tapping into that can have a transformative effect on an organization—and the people who work there. Here, in a... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

look at those quarters, I mean from market approach, they're not all monolithic, right? So how do we think about effective segmentation for those groups. And what does it look like in practice? Who's been doing it well? SWG: So... View Details

24 Mar 2022
News

Well Said

cultural heritage and you do not want people to hide their immigrant background. How do you balance those things? AL: Great question. So I truly believe that being an immigrant myself, that immigrants have special power, and that having an accent is, indeed, a sign of... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

MBA Oath Maintains Momentum

serve “the greater good” with the “utmost integrity” was taken by hundreds of graduating MBA students in a ceremony on Class Day. As of late July, more than 450 newly minted HBS MBAs and nearly 1,000 graduates of other b-schools had taken the oath, many by View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11

By Rick Zedník (MBA 2002) “Good morning,” our professor, Frances Frei, greeted us at 8:40 a.m. on September 12, 2001. Slowly pacing at the front of the lecture hall, lip quivering, she followed those two words with twenty seconds of silence. “I rehearsed so that this... View Details

13 Jun 2016
News

JetBlue Chairman on How to Handle Betrayal

say how did I participate in this? I think that gives you insight and sort of the first ability to start approaching it in a way that allows you to heal.” If the betrayals are fixable, Peterson says they must be addressed quickly, so as not to “fester.” For businesses,... View Details

10 Aug 2017
News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

the time she's happy. Then, together, we are happy 64% percent of the time because 80% times 80% is 64%, which means 2/3 of the time we're happy together. Life is awesome, we're feeling great, we're making a nice dinner together, playing... View Details

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