The core leaders that I have at many levels in the system are not people who came from the education schools — they’re people who came from the business schools, and from the business sector. That causes me a lot of political heat, but that’s just fine.
A founder's departure can have a positive, negative or neutral effect on organizational performance. New research helps to predict the impact of founder succession on a particular organization.
One day last year Chris Chen ’08 was making a snack in his kitchen when his roommate, a former pastry sous chef at Le Cirque, embellished it with sea salt and caramelized bananas. Suddenly Chris was struck with an idea — selling gourmet desserts out of a truck.
Napoleon, Buddha, Bill Gates — what makes them all great? According to a new book by Professor Bill Duggan, extraordinary achievements begin with something known as “strategic intuition.”
On a giant video screen, robot avatars armed with space-age immobilizers competed in a 3D landscape. But in order to win, these players better know their algebra.
When a company’s development is driven primarily by industry-wide expansion rather than a company’s innovation and operational excellence, you can be certain that the business will experience its share of growing pains.
The ability to see change before it happens — or to imagine change and create it — can result in billions of dollars. Can it be taught?
As graduation nears, scaling up my business has again become my top priority.
On February 1st I moved to Hyderabad, India to officially start GreenMango’s operations. That first day, a lot went wrong.
If I think too much about it, Nigeria scares me. But my nervous tension is dwarfed by the excitement that only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity can create.
Combining ideas from military history, cognitive psychology and modern neuroscience, strategic intuition offers a four-step method for identifying and capturing opportunity.
Over the past decade, leading African business schools have adopted the traditional case method. But how much can they really learn from these cases when they are about American companies that routinely leave Africa out of their operating plans altogether?
To many, entrepreneurship calls to mind the path-breaking motivation envisioned by Schumpeter’s “creative destruction.” But much of entrepreneurship — and much of what we can teach in business school — is more akin to “nondestructive creation.”
In his new book, Bill Duggan reveals how to cultivate strategic intuition to drive innovation, solve problems and capitalize on unforeseen opportunities.
An inventive method for reducing prescription noncompliance wins this year’s Outrageous Business Plan Competition.
Dean Glenn Hubbard talks about why progressive tax rates tend to deter new entrepreneurs and how far governments should go to create a favorable environment for entrepreneurship.
Before working at a venture capital company, I tried for years to figure out how to quickly determine if something is a venture capital investment or a private equity investment.
Despite all the fuss about offshoring to Bangalore, Amar Bhide claims it can't transform India's economy. Here, he explains the reforms needed to spur business growth and put India on the fast track.
CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the firm pledges $100 million to provide 10,000 underserved women with education and mentoring in business, management and entrepreneurship. Read more...
This feature describes the work CBS students have done with African entrepreneurs as part of Professor Murray Low's master class, Entrepreneurship in Africa. Dana Malman, Katie Leonberger and Ryan Petersen, all class of 2008, are quoted. Read more...
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