Lang Letter Archive

From advice on gaining strategic focus to calls for coding education, here’s what most caught our readers’ attention.

An illustrated look at the workday of Linda Orandi '96, CEO of A&R Pistachios.

“Become a better cook,” says one professor. “Cut down iPhone use by half,” says another.

In a world of rapid change, static methods of strategic planning won’t work, says Willie Pietersen, a professor of the practice of management.

One trick for keeping resolutions is to make it painful to break them, says Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business Gita Johar.

China needs to take steps to redress unfairness in its trade relations with other countries. But if global trade is to be truly fair, the United States also has to make some changes.

A recent faculty showcase spotlighted new research from Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business Bernd Schmitt; Assistant Professor of Management Michael Mauskapf; and S. T. Lee Professor of Business Sheena Sethi Iyengar’s Authenticity, Choice, and Technology Lab. 

GDP is not a good measure of overall wellbeing. If we focus only on material wellbeing, we become distorted in the same way that the metrics are distorted; we become more materialistic.

As COO of Fannie Mae, Kimberly Johnson '00 may be among the first to know if the US housing market shows signs of another crisis.