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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
McKinsey in Cleveland as well as a Toyota plant in Kentucky. “My biggest immediate challenge when I return to India will be finding the cultural fit again.” Having worked summer jobs as a teenager in a TVS service station and aluminum...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Farming for Fuel
ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. “For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging,” says Reinhardt. “It’s hard to imagine two areas of greater importance, or with greater...
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- 17 Apr 2017
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Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the lineage of these...
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- 16 Dec 2013
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D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
- 07 Oct 2024
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On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
doing laundry. There’s an obligation to do all these things in a more sustainable way. To put it differently, this is not a company that sells appliances; but rather a business of living better by making clothes last longer and food taste...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
planet." "There are certain images that come up with five-star service that I just don't like: telephones, swimming pools, valet service," Evanson says from his 500-acre island. "It's a way of differentiating our product, which is...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
himself had detected a groundswell of impending postwar entrepreneurialism among his fellow GIs, based on conversations with them during his service in the Pacific. Back at Soldiers Field in 1946, Mace, with the backing of Dean David, set...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
acted when the stakes were high; from his growing depth as a moral actor; and from his sheer will to get up each morning and do what he could in service to his mission. In early September, Union forces scored a critical military victory....
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- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
he too emphasizes that making facilitating payments for essential documents and services is a routine fact of life in many countries, so much so that facilitating payments are not barred by the 1977 U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design and...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry Wilson (MBA 1999), who had...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership
cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
in a race against time, working for the underground agency IA3. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, the IA3 team enlists the CIA’s aid with local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the team’s...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
getting people in the door of a museum has intensified. Admission fees and retail income from gift shops and food sales can have a significant impact on the museum as a whole. Because the Smithsonian's NMNH is located in the heart of one...
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- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
of very high highs, and very low lows. And my experience is really trying to balance both sides, and always constantly remember why I'm there. In terms of the highs the food is amazing, the culture is very vibrant. Lagos is probably the...
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- 02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More...
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