Promises - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2011
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Promising Starts

Eight Class of 2011 MBAs will spend the coming year working in key management positions with nonprofits and public-sector organizations with support from the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. This year’s fellows are (front row) Alisa Seewald, Year Up; Clive Chang,... View Details

16 Feb 2012
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A Promising Calorie-Cutting Approach

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

nongovernmental organizations will continue their pressure to abolish the dual-class citizenship system. What Lies Ahead? “Over the long haul, there’s reason to be optimistic about China’s development,” said Abrami. The WTO agreement holds the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Aug 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise

After an eye-opening experience as a volunteer mentor, former auto executive Susan Schooner (MBA 1983) launched Girls Group, an organization designed to economically and emotionally support middle and high school girls in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area. Founded in 2003,... View Details

27 Mar 2019
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Fulfilling Their Promise

was meaningful.” What Schooner saw in these young women was promise and a world that wasn’t affording them the same opportunities she had enjoyed growing up. So that same year, she took her own money and launched Girls Group, an... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; mentoring

11 Nov 2014
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Making Good On Her Promise

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes As a little kid, Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) doesn’t remember thinking much about the differences between himself and his younger brother, Terry. But as he started to get older, he started to ask questions:... View Details

16 Nov 2020
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Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results

Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,... View Details

27 Nov 2020
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Make Yourself a Black Friday Promise

26 Oct 2020
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Great promise but potential for peril

16 Jul 2020
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Black Lives Matter and the promise of entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

09 Nov 2021
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Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

As part of a recent cover story in WIRED about Netflix’s racial equity pledge, the magazine spoke to the company’s human resources director, Aaron Mitchell (MBA 2011), who led the project. The article notes that Mitchell helped craft the company’s approach, which... View Details