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Investing in Higher Education. Part 3 – Toward an Educational Institution of the Future
After several years researching the topic and obtaining firsthand experience running several respected business schools, I have prepared...
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Investing in Higher Education. Part 2 – The Challenging Structure of Classical Institutions
After several years researching the topic and obtaining firsthand experience running several respected business schools, I have prepared...
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Takeaways from Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat (2013) by Peter Lorange
The Boys in the Boat chronicles the highly challenging journey of the eight-person U.S. rowing team that won Olympic gold in 1936 with a...
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Investing in Higher Education. Part 1 – Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Technology by Peter Lorange
Higher education institutions, most notably universities and colleges, have traditionally been either owned by the public sector (either...
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Takeaways from Schmidt, Rosenburg, and Eagle’s Trillion Dollar Coach by Peter Lorange
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Johnathan Rosenburg, and Alan Eagle deals with the managerial philosophy of Bill Campbell, a...
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Takeaways from Melinda Gates’ The Moment of Lift by Peter Lorange
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of Bill Gates, the founder and majority shareholder of Microsoft...
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Takeaways from Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Peter Lorange
Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is an important book on philosophy, but one that is hard to read! I finished this book with a...
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Profile: Urs Wietlisbach, Co-founder of Partners Group, by Peter Lorange
Introduction Urs Wietlisbach is one of the three founders of Partners Group, a global private market investment manager headquartered in...
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Takeaways from Howard Yu’s LEAP by Peter Lorange
This remarkable book provides important insights regarding how established complex organizations can reinvent themselves and prevent...
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Takeaways from Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño and Kazuo Ichijo’s Business Despite Borders
This book’s editors asked 29 leading academicians to address various reasons why business largely remains global, or “open” (i.e.,...
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Takeaways from Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson’s Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons
The three people who were the most centrally involved in attempting to mitigate the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, perhaps with...
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Profile: Carl Elsener, CEO of Victorinox, by Peter Lorange
Carl Elsener is the fourth-generation leader of the family firm Victorinox, a world leader in producing the iconic Swiss Army knife (35%...
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Takeaways from Roy Williams and Vic Pressier’s Preparing Heirs by Peter Lorange
In this short book, authors Williams and Pressier share a series of practical suggestions for how to successfully transmit family wealth...
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Takeaways from Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing by Peter Lorange
Striving for quarterly profits and short-term performance may often come in conflict with environmental and social aspirations, such as...
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Profile: Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the NRC, by Peter Lorange
Right now, nearly 70 million people are fleeing violence and conflict. Millions more are displaced by climate change and disasters. Not...
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Take-aways from R. A. Baassiri's Interrupted Entrepreneurship: Embracing Change
This short book by Lebanese family business entrepreneur Raméz Baassiri stems from a compelling statistic: even though family firms make...
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Profile: Morten Hannesbo, CEO AMAG Group AG by Peter Lorange
Morten Hannesbo is the CEO of AMAG Group AG, a position he has held since 2009. Before joining AMAG in 2007, he held several positions at...
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Profile: The Nestlé Youth Initiative and Laurent Freixe, EVP Nestlé, CEO Zone Americas
When the global crisis started in 2007, Mr. Freixe was in charge of Nestlé Iberia. At that time, much of the economic growth in Spain had...
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Takeaways from Bradley Tusk's The Fixer – My Adventures Saving Start-ups from Death by Politics
Bradley Tusk’s The Fixer is a controversial book about the interplay between individuals and politics. As the title suggests, the book...
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Takeaways from David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth by Peter Lorange
This book deals with the major effects that we can expect from climate change and global warming. It was written by the departing editor...
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