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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
of diversification (vertical, horizontal, and tangential) available for growth and explains how they might be identified, evaluated, and effectively pursued. He also addresses the opportunities and risks of each category. Choosing the...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These phenomena can have a catastrophic...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
are dramatically different and quite exciting. Working in civil society, you are surrounded by people who are deeply passionate about the calls that they serve. And issues around motivation and organizational focus are relatively easier...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
and what was once considered the province of nonprofit organizations are becoming increasingly blurred." Businesses, says Austin, are finding they can benefit in many ways by working to strengthen the communities in which they operate. And nonprofits are learning they...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
work and family," she notes. "I often have to make difficult choices between responsibilities at home and at the office. It's tough for a woman in a senior position." Meyer's challenges are not likely to subside. She is, however, considering taking a break from the...
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Morgan Baker
- 04 Sep 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
new brands, revitalizing existing brands, and managing brand portfolios in the rapidly evolving modern marketplace. Integrating academic theories with practical experience, this book covers fundamental branding concepts, strategies, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
effectively by teaching them to interrupt unwanted impulses and bringing them to a state of mindfulness before the impulses turn into action. The Awkward Ozarker: A Curious Tale of Self-Reinvention in a Scantily Settled Land by Blant Hurt...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
backgrounds or experience levels of the top management team -- the CEO, CFO, and chief scientific officer, in particular -- aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," explains HBS associate professor Monica C. Higgins, coauthor of a new working paper...
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Judith A. Ross
- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that just crunching numbers wasn’t...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Faculty Books
decisions, many critical choices still come down to human judgment, based on the best available insights. Visiting Professor Davenport and his coauthor relate 12 stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family
distribution of wealth, to the effects that life events such as births and deaths, marriages and divorces, and hirings and retirements have on a business. Davis and his Generation to Generation coauthors have also developed a powerful...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
we like former MIT professor Edgar H. Schein’s iconic framework, which loosely divides organizational culture into artifacts, behaviors, and shared basic assumptions. As Schein argues persuasively, to get people to reliably behave the way...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
changes in its workforce and shifts in the broader social narrative," she observes. "This type of study adds to our understanding of how organizational and societal practices work together." McGinn notes that over the past few decades...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
H-E-B and the Monterrey Food Bank, a program administered by the Mexican branch of the nonprofit organization Caritas. The outcome? The nonprofit, which received sporadic support in the past, suddenly had access to the organizational...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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Minding The Gap
"The professors at Harvard don't try to tell us how to run our schools like a business. They push us to consider possible applications of business models and methods in our work, but they understand that the organizational complexities we...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
globe for a weeklong intensive education in building strategic perspectives. And intensive it is: Participants address everything from establishing methods of fiscal accountability to assessing organizational performance to mobilizing...
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- 03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation
an executive’s pay is in line or out of line with performance over a long period of time, like 10 years.” With its benchmarking, the model helps companies and their investors know if pay and performance are aligned. If improvement is needed, it can help identify the...
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