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- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
from whom we can learn. And you might've already heard, a group of 37 companies have formed what's called the OneTen initiative, which is to create one million jobs for Black youth over the next ten years. We are learning so much about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
interests alive. Mühlemann: I do it by creating time for other interests — my family, art, reading, sport. Without some balance, I cannot do my job properly, certainly not over a long time period. Gadiesh: I love what I do. Working with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
Or take Warren Buffett, who has played a key role in the global capital markets for several decades. Steve Jobs is another example of an entrepreneur who changed the world. So too is Bono, the lead singer of U2. Here is a musician who... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
flipping it and saying, "We'll be remote, so that your job becomes your university campus." And our thesis here is that the employer has skin in the game. This is their future workforce—and not in an ethereal, aggregate sense. This... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
faculty members hired this year, eight are people of color. We became the first academic partner to the OneTen initiative, which aims to create jobs and career paths with family-sustaining wages for one million Black individuals in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
innovator. In this playbook, Schultz makes the case for not raising outside money, finding mentors, and doing every job before hiring others and also discusses how to pivot when things go wrong and why failure is an outdated concept. What... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
"Adults have a great time at Club Med, but especially for kids, there simply is no better place." He further observes that as people spend more time on computers on the job and at home, the greater their need to break away. "The more the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of William & Mary, then a View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
1.4 taxis for every 1,000 people in Jakarta compared with 10.2 in Bangkok, and most of those were concentrated in the downtown area where the office jobs and wealthier residents congregate, despite the fact that taxis were often seen as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Midwest, commented, “Lincoln workers receive high pay and job security, and there is no need for a union there. But I’m not worried that there will be a diminishing role for unions, because most of you are too dumb to run your companies... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
With demand growing, Khan eventually left his full-time job as a hedge fund analyst to devote himself full-time to Khan Academy, bootstrapping it for the first nine months before receiving early support from Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
quit his job and moved to Boulder to pursue his passion, trail running. He quickly became known in outdoor circles as “fast Dan from Seattle.” When Kim and Coup heard about his corporate background, they hired Brillon to help them put... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
in the case of Sheryl, it really boiled down to two things. Sheryl cared about me not just as an employee but as a human being. When I moved from New York to California to take the job at Google, I didn't really know very many people in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
by Alex Sherman and Mike Sherman (MBA 1986) Amazon Digital Services LLC This book provides 52 real-life anecdotes that illustrate important learnings about customer analytics. It draws from the worlds of big data and customer insights to help managers do a better View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
percent mortgage with no income, no job or assets. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 was not so difficult to predict. What was much harder to predict was the way a tremor caused by a spate of mortgage defaults in America’s very own,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
field is also pronounced: A recent report by Catalyst, which studies women in business, found that only 18 percent of newly minted women MBAs worldwide take managerial jobs at tech companies (including information technology among a wider... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The landowner's share of net oil production, taken in the form of crude oil rather than in cash. Slug Catcher: A metal vessel that separates liquids from natural gas. Snubber: The most dangerous job in the oil field. A worker who controls... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have on society. In places where there was nothing, factories got... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
people from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Snapchat, Starbucks, Nike, and Microsoft. There’s a lot of product management oomph there,” she says. And many of them, like Lee, who worked at Sony and Microsoft, left more traditional tech jobs for... View Details