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What
makes some businesses sprout, grow, adapt, and succeed, while most
never get off the ground? Researchers in the growing field of organizational
ecology say it is not enough to study the companies that thrive.
Answers lie in the stories of failure.
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Story |
On Saturday,
Jan. 16, 1993, Zoe Dunning, a lieutenant in the
U.S. Naval Reserve, was a second-year student at the Graduate School
of Business, and William Jefferson Clinton was about to become President
of the United States.
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Flat-screen
monitors on the wall display everything from talking heads to war
footage to cartoons. Jon Abbott points toward the array and explains,
“That’s digital television.” He is smiling because this is the wave
of the future and he is already on top of it.
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August
2002,
Volume 70,
Number 4
Features
An
Economic Portrait of Terrorism
A Stanford political scientist and a Business School economist share
their understanding of where terrorism comes from and how it affects
global political and economic health.
Organizational
Ecology
How do companies survive their life cycle phases? How do companies
influence one another? And how do whole industries change over time?
These are some of the questions organizational ecologists ask and try
to answer.
By CHERIAN GEORGE
Departments
ABOUT
THIS ISSUE
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
DEAN'S
COLUMN
SPREADSHEET
What’s Up: News about the GSB and its graduates.
For the Record: Class of 2002 Commencement
IDEAS
Creating a search fund to find an existing business to buy appeals to
some entrepreneurs.
By MEREDITH ALEXANDER
TODAY
The GSB is benefiting from a record number of alums who are
serving the School as employees. Meet them.
VIEWPOINT
Zoe Dunning, MBA ’93, put herself on the line to change the
U.S. military’s antigay policy.
By JANET ZICH
FIRST
PERSON
Alumnus Ronan McGovern ignored what he was taught in finance class and
learned some hard life lessons.
PEOPLE
Jon Abbott, MBA ’88
Laura Esserman, MD, MBA ’93
Two alums are leveraging technology in their fields.
FACULTY
NEWS
FACULTY
PUBLICATIONS
FACULTY
RESEARCH
Global arbitrageurs profit at the expense of long-term investors.
Are global labor standards good
for workers?
Bettors predict
election winner.
Analyzing the stock
analysts.
NEWSMAKERS
Who's in the news: A roundup of
media mentions.
CALENDAR
IN
MEMORIAM
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