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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999)...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Mark Fuller
start-up with five employees to a global powerhouse with sixteen hundred employees in 23 countries. From day one, Fuller and his colleagues knew they wanted to build a firm with global reach — a cutting-edge...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
throughout Jacobson's life. At the University of Pennsylvania, Jacobson studied international relations with a specialization in China. After college, she worked in operations at Greenwich Associates and was soon promoted to run the...
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Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main stakeholders—government, the...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
corporate and strategic matters. Under Marram's leadership, the company has attained a prominent position in the worldwide premium juice business. Her skill in promoting growth without losing sight of her company's core competencies has...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world are declaring a climate emergency and a growing number of whistleblowers are coming out to tell the truth. What would telling the truth mean for your business? Supporting people to engage in social movements. Ecosia pays the legal fees for their View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
potential employees and investors as well as to customers." Your Inner Entrepreneur But if entrepreneurship is, as Professor Howard Stevenson defines it, truly "a way of managing" rather than a specific set of activities or personality...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
impact?” “One of our big projects was to enable people in California to get food assistance from their mobile phone. To promote that, we started running Google AdWord campaigns. We’ve found that for every $10 that we spend, we can get...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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New Releases
improvement will they be able to take full advantage of the cost management potential of their new systems." Presenting a blueprint for the design of systems that promote both learning and better decision-making, the authors highlight...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Steven Rogers
with Laura, to Columbus, Indiana, and then to Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rogers was impressed with the emphasis on values as well as profit at Cummins, where he worked both as a customer-service supervisor and as a purchasing agent. "I had always believed in treating...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
loyalty) into a full-fledged management system that results in extraordinary financial and competitive results. They define the fundamental concept of Net Promoter; explain its connection to a company’s growth and sustained success; demonstrate the power of the...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
build great companies, and Zensar's success is a visible result." He knows employees personally, and adapts his style to suit their individual needs, but still expects a high level of performance. As Zensar has acquired firms in Boston,...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks
defined by age, strongly correlates to employee engagement, satisfaction, and performance. To promote understanding in a diverse workplace, I've found some of the best practices are simple, familiar...
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- 10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman
professional growth? An artist may start out as an artist. Then do I promote them and properly train them to be head of story? The next position could be to become co-director and eventually to the director of a movie. So in the case of...
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- 27 Oct 2020
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HBS Votes
democracy and no American should be denied that right," a Bloomberg spokesperson told Axios. Promoting a “Day for Democracy” In August, Peter Palandjian (MBA 1993) launched “Day for Democracy,” a nonpartisan effort to encourage businesses...
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- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the...
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- 30 Apr 2021
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Revealing the Rules
less likely to be promoted to management than men. And Hispanic, Latino, and Black employees make up 11 and 12 percent of entry-level hires but only three to five percent of corporate vice presidents....
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
“animal spirits,” entrepreneurial energies and imaginings that bring a business to life. They also miss out on the aspirations employees may harbor to think a bit on their own, experiment with new ways of doing the same old drill, and...
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