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Victor Frankl provides something to think about this weekend.

June 15, 2012

For most of us, weekends provide an opportunity to take a rest from thinking about weekday concerns and consider less urgent – but perhaps more important – issues. For example: “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his…

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Morten Hansen on “How Great Leaders Make Their Own Luck”

June 4, 2012

Morten Hansen is a professor at University of California, Berkeley, and at INSEAD, France. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School for a number of years. Prior to joining Harvard University, Hansen obtained his Ph.D. from the business school at Stanford University. In addition…

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Ruth J. Simmons (Brown University) in “The Corner Office”

December 4, 2011

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Ruth J. Simmons, president of…

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Victor K. Fung: An interview by Bob Morris

October 22, 2011

Li & Fung is led by Group Chairman Victor Fung, Executive Deputy Chairman William Fung, and Group President and CEO Bruce Rockowitz. The Company’s management team represents some of the most experienced professionals in the global supply chain management industry.…

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The Lords of Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2011

The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World Walter Kiechel III Harvard Business Press (2010) A unique aristocracy of iconoclasts Kiechel suggests that understanding what he calls the “strategy revolution” requires getting beyond three common…

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Nicholas Carr: Schools should beware the e-book bandwagon

August 7, 2011

  In an article featured by the Dallas Morning News (“Our fleeting focus,” Sunday, August 7, 2011), Nicholas Carr says that, given what we know now, schools should be wary of replacing textbooks with e-readers. I agree. In fact, I…

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Informal Learning: A book review by Bob Morris

June 5, 2011

Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance Jay Cross Pfeiffer (2006) In the Introduction, Jay Cross makes a number of crisp assertions, several of which are certain to generate controversy. For example, “Workers learn more in…

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Chris Zook: An interview by Bob Morris

March 9, 2011

A partner at Bain & Company,  Chris Zook is co-leader of the firm’s Global Strategy Practice. Zook’s work has focused on companies searching for new sources of profitable growth, in a wide range of industries. His published works include Profit…

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The Traits of Advanced Leaders

March 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s…

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