Thanksgiving is clearly a time for self reflection and giving thanks. A friend asked me what I was personally most thankful for, and here is the note I sent him: “I took the time to SELF REFLECT on the question and realized I am truly thankful and grateful for 86,400 things — they are the number of seconds each of us
Read moreDonald Jacobs pushed Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management into the upper echelon of business schools as Kellogg’s dean from 1975 until 2001. “This is the guy who literally put the Kellogg business school on the map,” said Harry Kraemer, a student of Jacobs’ in the 1970s, a former CEO of Baxter International Inc. and now an adjunct professor on
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I had the opportunity to spend this past weekend at the Kellogg Miami campus in Coral Gables teaching my class “Executive Perspectives in Leadership” to EMBA 107, a great group of executives who will graduate this December. I really enjoyed spending time with them. One of the topics we discussed was “Why do companies make so many bad decisions?” I
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I am rarely at a loss for words, but I am this morning, so I will make this short. Dean Don Jacobs passed away yesterday morning. He was my teacher, my mentor, my colleague, and my friend. I first met him when I arrived at Northwestern Kellogg as a student in the Fall of 1977, and I immediately knew that
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