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- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
repel creepy guys at the bar. While the list of pests is endless, the vision is to build a lifestyle brand that is much broader than just for repelling bugs. However, before expanding, we must develop brand recognition and loyalty for our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
category first. —J. W. Penland (MBA 1996) Hardware obsolesces quickly; it is costly to build, upgrade, retool, and distribute. Data and software are fungible across devices. Data can be cross-utilized with fitness and lifestyle partners... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
news, lifestyle features, travel and entertainment information, plus an A-to-Z (Algeria to Zimbabwe) guide to each African nation. In one of its latest ventures, Africa.com has begun selling domain names to companies wanting to create a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
high that wholesale becomes attractive at some point, depending on your margins. Protect those, and you’ll have more options. Finally, selling on Shopify and Amazon is much more than twice the work. Choosing to do one or the other, or both, is also a View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
why real improvement requires a holistic approach, not just a lifestyle hack. READ MORE April: Amy, thank you so much for joining us today to discuss your newest book, The Leader You Want to Be. Early in the book you introduce us to two... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
de-motivating, where I could see two or three months in, that I was nowhere near on track to hitting that goal. But the problem wasn't my behavior, necessarily, it was the fact that I just came up with that goal top-down and it was pretty unrelated to my actual View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
to death.” Then in October 2000 came euphoria: Milosevic had fallen. Old friends in Belgrade, anti-Milosevic activists familiar with Djelic's talents and experience, pleaded for him to return and help rebuild. “How could I stay and lead my bourgeois View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact of her View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
Chris Marshall (DBA 1996), Kamal Karmakar (OPM 37), Eugene Lee (MBA 1976), and Sophia Shing (MBA 1997). The seven participating startups were recruited by TaFF as part of The Bridge Fashion Incubator (TBFI) program, considered Southeast Asia’s “first fashion tech,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
evidence of that, he need look no farther than his own place of employment. For its operations in Mexico, where the tradition of the two-hour lunch is still strong in many places, Nike switched to a one-hour lunch break. For some Mexican employees, the decision... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
that trouble was coming, just as the fact that in the United States consumer consumption has gone from 65 percent to 70 percent of GDP since 1970. The idea that the United States can maintain 300 million people in a broadly middle-class View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
us, myself included, the recognition of different lifestyles and cultures was useful, particularly when thinking about marketing. In the curriculum, we now have far more and shorter courses than when I was an MBA, I suppose in response to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
financed $20–$40 billion project. Built by American developers to accommodate some 300,000 people on 1,500 acres reclaimed from the Yellow Sea, New Songdo is strategically located within 3.5 hours by jet to 700 million people. Economic incentives, enterprise zone... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
aspirations. Through purposeful steps, bold action, and an unleashed imagination, she built her new life from the ground up. Now she is the CEO of her own multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand and ready to share the steps she took with... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
search engine Baidu. Instead of striving and sweating for a good job, a home, and a family, it suggested a minimalist lifestyle of tang ping (“lying flat”). Although the post was later deleted by Communist Party officials, lying flat has... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
non-profit employee before you’re going to go and become that person. Take all that money that you are making now, and sock away everything else. Also, don’t get used to the high-priced lifestyle that you’re going to have to scale back... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
"Our goal is to provide products and services that heal and uplift humanity while also generating healthy profits," he says. The Sikh lifestyle encourages daily yoga, meditation, and prayer; religious tolerance; and "recognizing the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
“punishment posting” or perhaps a move that signaled her desire for a slower-paced lifestyle after a fifteen-year career in various areas of ICICI Bank. “There were no visible indicators that signaled the potential for private equity in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna