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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
a beginning, a middle, and a finish. Their ready-to-drink cocktails are naturally low in sugar and calories (less than 2 grams and 35 calories). They are bottled and labeled with a sense of sophistication that would feel right at home on any elegant bar cart. With its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Dakar, Senegal, and Giza, Egypt, and observing the impact inside and outside the stadiums. “Just this season, we have engaged more than a hundred local vendors, entrepreneurs, and freelancers,” covering everything from uniform production... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
he took over, Pret, reportedly valued at $1.9 billion when it was acquired in 2018 by JAB Holdings, had more than 550 shops, with the majority in London and outposts in major cities worldwide. But just a few months into his term, the pandemic View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
two youngest children, who were born with a rare and often fatal neuromuscular disorder. Watching its production was, alternately, an unreal, thrilling, and deeply emotional experience for the Crowley family. Less than a year after... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
publisher in Lowell whose products included Gideon Bibles. Another—which came his way via an Executive Education participant who was president of the Boston Bruins—was from a small company with about a million dollars in sales that... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
very active in boosting the idea. We couldn’t have picked a better time to launch.” After more than a year of studying production practices and cross-country travels to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, the Turners began producing syrup... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is used by oil companies... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
product and pay myself a salary. But it didn't work out that way. I went out and pitched with just a deck and some user research, and I got no's from everyone. So I pitched 10 investors, all of them said no. Actually, one of them said... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
group's majority stake in the rural retailer was sold, and the poultry business was placed in a joint venture with US-based Tyson Foods. The most significant changes came at the top. In August 2007, the managing director—a longtime Godrej... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
on Wall Street,” Sityodtong says as his driver navigates traffic to a weigh-in event the night before the fights. “On Wall Street I wanted to make millions of dollars, and I did that. Changing the world and making a positive impact on the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
tech company, while parenting two children (now 15 and 10). In 1989 Lee and her then husband purchased Software House, a small, unsuccessful software sales company. Within a year she had changed the name to SHI International, reflecting... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
represents something quite different [from Amazon], something that’s anchored in the customer’s desire to connect, not just with a product but with a community,” Raffaelli says. That sense of “community”; a dogged attention to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Customer Journey provides the playbook for growing and retaining customers in a landscape transformed by digital. Todd Unger, CXO of the American Medical Association, provides a step-by-step guide based on three decades of consumer marketing, advertising, digital View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
on shaping and influencing the way tomorrow's leaders will change the world. The need for management faculty has never been greater; in recent years, a wave of faculty retirements, combined with a shortage of graduates with advanced... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
equipped to answer. The query typically came at the end of a session, after a productive conversation about delegating, managing a packed calendar, or presenting effectively in meetings. “But I’ve got six-month-old twins at home, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
moment of uncertainty,” added Fitzgerald. The pair spent four years interviewing assault survivors and refining their product before launching in February 2020—and relaunching in June 2020. “Honestly, we were very concerned initially that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
of what explains Endline’s role today as mastermind and chief rioter at sweetriot, a socially conscious chocolate company founded in 2005. Working directly with cacao farmers in Latin America to ensure a fair price for their labor, sweetriot produces a feel-good (and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the business has changed a lot in a short period of time. What are some of the challenges that come... View Details