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How Facebook Built a Workplace that Millennials Love

Listening to Facebook’s Lori Goler describe the company’s culture, you might see parallels between its product—a social network—and how the company thinks about its employees. Goler visited Yale SOM on April 11. Goler, Facebook’s vice president of people and recruiting, spoke in a question-and-answer session that gave students the chance to pick her brain about [...]

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Busting Some Moves with the Faculty

Last fall, I was thinking out loud with my fellow cabinet members of the Arts @ Fuqua Club: “Wouldn’t it be awesome to do our own version of Dancing with the Stars?” Well, on April 5, we did! Dancing with the Faculty began as just an idea that became a reality this spring. Guest Blogger [...]

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Increasing my Self-Awareness as a Woman in Business

One stereotype of Asians is that we are taciturn, comparatively introvert, humble, and inclined to harmony. In this case, I am a typical Asian. I have learned some American-style networking skills in educational sessions since orientation, and I have experienced some differences, such as casual small talk with “strangers” in professional contexts. However, a recent [...]

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Role of Gender in Workplace Negotiations

NEW YORK—September 26, 2011—A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, finds that while women fare worse economically than men in many distributive negotiations, including salary negotiations, women [...]

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Notes from the Director: Round 1 Application Tips

Greetings from Philadelphia, Fall is in the air and the cooler temperatures (and perhaps the return of Pumpkin Spice Lattes at Starbucks) are reminders that application deadlines are fast approaching.  October 1 will be here in a week and I know many of you are working feverishly to put those final touches on your Round [...]

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In Search of Informed Discretion

EDITOR’S NOTE: Goizueta Newsroom regularly shares news on the school, its faculty, staff, students and alumni. But we also take pride in sharing vital pieces of research from the world-class business school faculty. Look for regular updates on published pieces of research like this one… Title: In Search of Informed Discretion: An Experimental Investigation of [...]

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Keeping Your Competitive Edge Program: Open to All Fisher MBAs

All Fisher alumni and current MBA students are welcome to attend Keeping Your Competitive Edge.  This is an opportunity for Fisher MBAs to participate in current business topics and gain insight about upcoming industry change. Join us April 7th & 8th to network, learn and keep your competitive edge! View Event Flyer   Thursday, April 7 Networking breakfast [...]

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Role of Gender in Workplace Negotiations

NEW YORK—September 26, 2011—A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin–Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, finds that while women fare worse economically than men in many distributive negotiations, including salary negotiations, women [...]

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Axe those G-MAT Anxieties

Exams are congruous with anxiety. The exam induced anxiety can work as motivator as well as performance dampener. To use it to one’s advantage one can abide by following pointers. The pointers laid down below aim to harness positive aspect of anxiety and reducing its negative side. Craft out a strategy- To combat G-MAT by [...]

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Pursuing an MBA – The working professional Perspective

MBA is a career option which is highlighted a lot and is a dream career for a lot of students and working people. Different people have different views regarding an MBA degree but what allures most people towards pursuing an MBA can be described in three scenarios: Scenario 1 – The fat pay checks that [...]

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