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As a young man, I dreamed about America. My eyes followed the American jets. I learned from American books. I admired American scientists. My eyes looked longingly to the West. Would I ever find my way into the hallowed institutions of American education and science? What happened far exceeded my greatest expectations. America became my gateway to the top of the academic world. Years of research, teaching, and networking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, and the Harvard Business School opened up another new world for me. I met all the famous thought leaders in my field.
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The long-term average number of customers in a stable system L equals the long-term average effective arrival rate, λ, multiplied with the average time a customer spends in a system, W, expressed in the algebraic formula L = λW.
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Habilitation is the process of becoming a university professor in German-speaking countries and in Eastern Europe. It requires a second thesis more advanced than a doctoral dissertation and a defense of a new theory.
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McDonald (2017), The Golden Passport. Harper Business. Kindle Edition, p. 46.
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McDonald (2017), Position 5418 in Kindle Edition.
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McDonald (2017), Position 5418 in Kindle Edition.
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McDonald (2017), Position 4603 in Kindle Edition.
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https://scholar.google.com/citations, accessed on February 15, 2021.
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Steven C. Wheelwright later served as the ninth president of Brigham Young University Hawaii from 2007 to 2015.
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Michael Jensen later joined the Harvard Business School faculty.
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Buzzell first became well known as the main author of Buzzell and Gale (1987).
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Derek Bok was the president of Harvard University from 1971 to 1991. He was 41 years old when he took up the office, the youngest president in the history of Harvard since its founding in 1634.
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The institute was called USW at that time. Today, it is the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT).
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, April 23, 1993, p. 7.
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