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Joseph L. Badaracco: An interview by Bob Morris

October 28, 2013

Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School’s MBA and executive programs. Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University,…

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Chris Anderson on “How to Give a Killer Presentation”

June 16, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Anderson for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Tim Berners-Lee on “Linked Data: Web Science and the Semantic Web”

April 24, 2013

A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Timothy John (“Tim”) Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as “TimBL,” invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the…

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Colin Price on “Leadership and the art of plate spinning”

November 30, 2012

In this article featured in The McKinsey Quarterly published by McKinsey & Company, Colin Price explains why senior executives will better balance people and priorities by embracing the paradoxes of organizational life. Here is a brief excerpt from it. To…

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Harvard Business Review on Winning Negotiations: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Winning Negotiations Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to bargain and close on deals by “letting the other chaps have it your way” This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first…

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How About Better Parents?

December 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Friedman and featured in the November 20, 2011, issue of  The New York Times. To read the complete article, please click here. *     *     * In recent years, we’ve been treated…

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Tom Butler-Bowdon: First interview, by Bob Morris

June 11, 2011

The 50 Classics concept is based on Butler-Bowden’s belief that every subject or genre will contain at least 50 books that encapsulate its knowledge and wisdom. By creating a list of those landmark or representative titles, then providing commentaries that…

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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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