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- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Issue Focus: Leadership To keep pace with a fast-changing global business environment, “You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention,” says William Fung. Photo courtesy Li & Fung Ltd. Issue Focus Making the Leadership Case...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, Joe is swept into an evil plot that neither can elude. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
extraordinary scramble for natural resources in Africa and elsewhere that, to Western eyes, had an unnervingly imperial undertone. Only the “flight to safety” of foreign investors into dollars in the latter part of 2008 and the dramatic...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Seated in his office near Boston's Public Garden, he recollects sunlit summers in Maine (where his love for the natural world flourished) and his family's four-year sojourn in Paris (where, as a teenager, he received state-of-the-art...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
at a time when there are really important contextual changes taking place in the world. Let me highlight five such factors that we discuss in the book. One is the changing nature of the geopolitical economy. When I came to the United...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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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...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
they shouldn’t unionize. The employer’s legal right to coercively interfere with employees’ choices is at work in a way that’s completely inappropriate. The election process itself allows for long delays in litigation and uncertainty. I...
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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
recommend that a bright, young associate with five years of experience pursue an MBA, the answer was, “No, absolutely not. She would advance just as quickly staying with us.” A number of recruiters said that what they value most is the screening View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Letters to the Editor
possible time. Perhaps they make a contribution, but the process seems close to plain old “pump and dump,” hardly my idea of long term. Professor Salter offers several thoughtful recommendations to improve the performance of independent...
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- 05 Sep 2017
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Living the Quantitative Life
meditation for me. It's a process I do, where in many ways the practice is the goal. I try to do it for the beneficial aspects it has on my mental health, but in the way that I think a lot of people who meditate don't necessarily seek out...
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- 17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
opportunities and risks when evaluating investments. The technology classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general management and negotiations classes gave me a toolkit to manage people and View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark
some very exciting initiatives. One that has been flourishing is the work of our Entrepreneurial Management unit. We live in a dynamic world, rich with opportunity. The very nature of general management is changing. The creation of new...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
some stock. The first stock I bought—Northeast Airlines—was the only one I had heard of that was selling for less than $5 a share. I figured I could buy more. There’s obviously no sense in that, but I tripled my money. I said hey, this is great. I got hooked in a bull...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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In the Blood
boarding school,” says Clay. “They’ve entrusted you with their prized possession and expect you to manage it properly.” Once the owners have settled on a home for their horse, the farm manages the syndication process for a fee, selling...
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
their own academic goals. “I wrote my admission essay about my time at the Treasury, and the need for people who speak the languages of public service and finance,” she says. “I wanted to have credibility and background in both government...
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- 13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot
theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
this process a unanimous consensus emerged: business schools could no longer hope that their students would recognize the social significance and relations of business once they became managers. The schools themselves were ultimately...
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