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How Business Schools Are Teaching Students About Workplace Harassment

As the #MeToo movement continues to reveal how ingrained sexual harassment is in corporate culture, business schools have started taking steps to teach future leaders how to deal…

May 3, 2018

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Exit Strategy

“Organizations that truly value accurate information often hire an outside consulting firm to collect the data,” says Brooks Holtom, a professor in the McDonough School of…

May 1, 2018

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What Will Happen When The Tariff Exemption For The European Union Expires?

Neither Macron nor Merkel could persuade Donald Trump to rid the European Union of tariffs on steel and aluminum permanently. The temporary exemption expires this June 1st. What…

May 1, 2018

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Laszlo Bock’s New HR Startup: Machine Learning, Science And A ‘Little Bit Of Love’

“Most people like to rely on their gut. He brought more of the science approach,” said Christine Porath, a Georgetown University professor who studies workplaces and has…

May 1, 2018

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5 Of The Best US Business Schools For African-American MBAs

In addition to being an NBMBAA partner school, McDonough is also a member of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. … The combined efforts of the NBMBAA and…

May 1, 2018

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How A Common Interview Question Fuels The Gender Pay Gap (And How To Stop It)

The study was not representative of most hiring situations — the job marketplace was for short-term projects on which applicants bid — and the experiment was not assessing…

May 1, 2018

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Should The Tech Giants Be More Heavily Regulated?

An article by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “‘Any sufficiently advanced technology,’ the late Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote in…

April 30, 2018

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Shire Takeover May Take Months To Finish

The new company “will try to calm nerves by saying it’s business as usual, but eventually, there will be employees that need to be reassigned to other roles, and there will…

April 26, 2018

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Driving Private Investment To Spur Rural Prosperity

An article by Matthew McKenna, executive in residence, GSEI Rural Opportunity Initiative: “The United States has experienced an historic geographic imbalance in its recovery…

April 26, 2018

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A Growing Number Of Indian Americans Are Leading America’s Best Business Schools

Recent years have witnessed several Indian Americans take the helm of the nation’s most selective business schools: Nitin Nohria at Harvard, Dipak Jain at Northwestern (2001…

April 25, 2018