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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
to one of the four Swiss doctors who had founded the company. After two years of talks and trying to understand the medical device business, he agreed in 1977 to become president of Synthes in the United States. Until that point, the company's internal plates, screws,...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple effect could be seen on the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business can get a loan.” Small Businesses Strengthen US Supply Chains The current global supply chain back-up underscores the importance of valuing and fostering small manufacturers and service providers. Referencing her work (see below)...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
investment in math and physical sciences. Moving on to challenges Merck has faced, Gilmartin explained that new drug discovery tools have increased the speed at which its competitors can introduce new products to the marketplace, even as...
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- 01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Time Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Vanderbilt University, 1971 B.A., Political Science LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Trust is a powerful tool in helping you lead. You...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Green House
sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
political cartoons ever sketched, by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, Thomas Nast, and Ralph Steadman, among others. Be a Better Dad Today: 10 Tools Every Father Needs by Gregory W. Slayton (MBA 1990) (Regal) This is...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
travelers with a tool that enables them to do something that they can’t do on their own.” Leiman and Ogden went on a road trip after graduation, visiting VLJ manufacturers in Albuquerque (Eclipse Aviation),...
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- 05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
“Billions of dollars in research funding is pouring into the space. We have tools that are unprecedented in their power, their ease of use, their accessibility, and their cost. The number of neuroscience articles published in academic...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last two months in readiness to execute aerial delivery of emergency...
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- 25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston
Course. The park is central to the city and to Thacker and his family. He lives across the street from it and it borders Rice University, where his wife Allison (MBA 2000) is chief investment officer. “The park is used heavily by all the people of Houston,” says...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
was crazy,” Lerner says, noting that a successful onboarding experience could translate to long-term results. “This is the time to put your best foot forward, but we were using primitive tools that didn’t allow any of that and caused our...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
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What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one day's notice — a powerful...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days
Media, Entertainment, & Leisure When it comes to assessing change over the past 25 years, perhaps the best place to start is technology. When Moore began her job in the finance department at Time magazine, she was set up with the state-of-the-art View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
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Greylock
making specialized hospital beds and power tools for orthopedic surgeons. It provides a case study of Elfers's dictum that the venture firm's forte should always be "strong support of portfolio companies and long-term goals of building...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
enjoyable," a machine that is nothing short of "the greatest leverage of human potential ever developed." "As the commercial world moves from manufacturing to information, the tool is the personal computer,"...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
few natural resources, a small, destroyed manufacturing base, and income per capita less than a quarter of Britain’s to one of the most prosperous nations on Earth. By 2015 its GDP per capita was over 40% higher than Britain’s. How did...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
(MBA 2009) IDinsight — SEF 2012 honoree IDinsight aims to transform how the global social sector innovates, learns, and improves by giving its practitioners impact-measurement tools to continually improve their social programs....
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