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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Street, raising the specter of a credit market collapse that would cripple the economy. “It is an anxious time. It is probably even a dangerous time. It is a historic time. And it is a time that we’re going to be teaching about in our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
York City, and my father worked there, too," he says. "Since my maternal grandfather owned an importing business that my mother later ran, I knew early in life that I would go into business." MBA in hand, Rossotti did consulting for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
it—like a can,” she elaborated, glancing helpfully at my right foot. As I stomped down hard on the accelerator pedal, my entire upper body was thrown back into the tan leather seat. I felt a sensation in the pit of my stomach previously experienced only when View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have to solve the calorie deficiency that we’re View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
renewables, in particular solar and wind, means that our electricity system is going to be Capex-driven, and the marginal cost of power will essentially be zero much of the time. Matching demand closer to supply, rather than the other way... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
lightweight containers they can easily carry around with them. No wonder that Mixon points to new product development as a cornerstone of Invacare's success. Since he combined $10,000 of his own money with bank loans, a factory sale/leaseback arrangement, and the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
Growing up, Steve Barger spent his summers picking crops in Oregon until he was old enough to work in the cannery his father ran. A graduate of Williams College, he has two children and is married to his hometown sweetheart. Barger is president of Northwest Cascade, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
initiatives that go beyond compliance with national standards. We also started undertaking innovative programs on wastewater effluent reuse as part of our water recycling efforts, as well as energy-efficient projects to reduce our carbon... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
then go solve that problem.” Where, in your experience, do most entrepreneurs fail? They don’t use a process and are haphazard about entrepreneurship, thinking if they have “entrepreneurial spirit” they can be successful. When I was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
the Lego brand,” Moynihan recalls. “Ultimately, that led to an extremely difficult period around 2003 and 2004, when we almost lost our financial independence as a private entity.” After that, the company refocused its attention on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor of Management Practice. Another 20 leading investors and entrepreneurs spoke on panels and in private break-out sessions to round out the conference, which was timed in three-hour blocks over the two days to accommodate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
marketplace mean studios are making fewer and bigger movies. “Corporations are about reducing risk; making movies is about taking risks,” says Zee. “The safest bet seems to be franchises and big, expensive movies. But where is the innovation View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one day, he’d View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and costs. I don’t know what our energy system will look like in the future, but the future will be better than we can imagine because technology is going to improve, and the rate of improvement is going to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
One of the advantages of getting up before 4 a.m., F. Warren Hellman (MBA ’59) says with a smile, is that you aren’t expected to go to cocktail parties. Every day at that hour, Hellman can be found running six miles through his San... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
definitely not a coal miner nor a hitman. So, I worked in private equity and I loved it. I loved what we did. We raised money, we learned a lot about various businesses, bought them, fixed them, sold them. I loved the job. But when I... View Details