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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
Street , said, “Work hard and never give up, those were very valuable lessons I learned from trying to compete with Al.” Another Gordon lesson is the key to longevity. Known for long city walks and for climbing the stairs in skyscrapers,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
explains Gehrke. "I am definitely not the type to climb the corporate ladder." In 1978, she launched Design Lines, Inc., a small housewares business. When the company failed in 1980 ("a textbook case of being unwilling to let anybody come... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
situation. They told us, you know, the snake gets to a set of stairs and it can't climb the set of stairs. So, a human being has to somehow program it for those specific stairs. Where, you as a human, if you see a set of stairs that are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
There’s no telling when business travel will rebound, but if history is any guide, we will have to be patient. It took four years for business travel to climb back to previous levels after the terrorist attacks of 2001. With fewer... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
we ask, ‘how can we have a positive impact to bring down the COVID-19 numbers?’” Lundgren says attendance has steadily climbed as the pandemic wears on, as people seek both practical guidance—how to stay safe, wear a mask, etc—as well as... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
thousands of former U.S. manufacturing jobs, will all but disappear as Chinese wages and the value of the yuan continue to rise. “All over China, wages are climbing at 15 to 20 percent a year because of the supply-and-demand imbalance for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
climbing a steep learning curve." Tackling big projects is nothing new for Yeo. As a high-school student, concerned that the chemistry lab's hours were too limited, he spearheaded a yearlong effort with his classmates to fund and build a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
change the face of the consumer marketplace. Effortlessly rattling off a string of statistics, he notes that while China and India now represent more than one-third of the world's population, that figure will climb to two-thirds for Asia... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Reunion Highlights: A Case in Point
Spring 2005 Reunion photo galleries Open the gallery Photography by Stuart Cahill, Thomas J. Fitzsimmons, and Neal Hamberg. View the reunion photo gallery archive Like climbing aboard a bicycle for the first time in many years, alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
operations by climbing onto the vehicle and placing himself in front of the dozer operator and thus protecting the operator with his own life until the breach was complete. Major Gurfein’s bold and decisive actions directly lead to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
women - has climbed well above the competition. With some two million visitors to its Web site each month, iVillage attracts more than twice as much traffic as its nearest competitor. "We've established a commanding lead," Carpenter... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
occasion of my own class's 25th, is the underlying, unspoken premise of these commentaries: Well, that's about it for us; our race is run. We've made our mark, and our money, climbed the ladder (or not), achieved our peak earning years,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Kim and Coup, summiting Green Mountain is an easy 3.3-mile hike that they can do before work. The couple have climbed some of the world’s most beautiful and challenging peaks, including legendary Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
often-overlooked role of Black women in the social, political, psychological, and economic history of the United States, A Blessing offers a playbook for Black teams to find innovative ways to support one another as they climb the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
armchair from which he has negotiated many a deal, Rogers readily admits that the company’s success “has been beyond my wildest dreams.” Every business owner has stories to tell. Few relish the telling more than Rogers, and for good reason. His long, steady View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Brand New
meeting unprecedented demand: The furniture industry, used to 2 percent to 4 percent annual growth, Sundy says, has seen that climb to between 30 percent and 40 percent. “The question now is, How do you manage a business through the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
dancing, just a gorgeous display of things going on. At midnight, there were these tasteful nude dancers, if you will, a man and a woman brought in to kind of wrap around a pole. The owner brought them in from the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris. There was a mime View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
adding that ticket prices can climb to $250 for some high-demand performances. “In the box office, we heard people on the phone shouting to their friend, ‘We pay that for Celtics tickets, we can pay it for the ballet!’ ” READ MORE Kara... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna