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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
market. Wall Street helped the RTC solve another big problem: how to dispose of billions in S&L loans that were not in default. The agency came to Wall Street with a proposal to sell loan packages rather than one property at a time, an...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
can obscure the amount of pay actually being given to executives. In most cases where we see big excesses, it has to do with compensation committees not holding the line, as Jay noted. They granted packages that ensured their executives...
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- 13 Dec 2022
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The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar
final package of specific recommendations. In March, they turned it over on schedule to the new government. Just a month or two later, Aung San Suu Kyi's new government announced the formation of a new presidential council with equal...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Books
recap by the authors follows each account, noting the important principles it illustrates. Exercises are also included to spur creative thinking. The Heart of Change is a helpful package of fresh ideas for those looking to break new...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity
governments often do, which is to throw money at entrepreneurs without creating an environment that is hospitable to entrepreneurship. You’ve written that government stimulus packages sometimes fail because they are directed by a “herd...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
packaged food, thermal blankets, hygiene and medical products, and two trucks of animal feed were provided in Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, and Hatay. "Support poured in from all of FIBA's subsidiaries, including those in the wind power plant...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
special benefits package consisting of a 10-year tax holiday (corporate and personal), a 99-year land lease at concessionary rates, grants of up to $750K, no customs or duty taxes, and more. Macedonia’s economy has been stable since its...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
First-year students in Section G raised nearly $12,000 toward the construction of a new primary school in Nepal after hearing a presentation from former Microsoft executive John Wood. After a trek in the Annapurna region, Wood quit his job and seven-figure stock option...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the packaged food in stores was...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
products are sold at Whole Foods, specialty stores, and online. Endline’s approach to chocolate is “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as sweetriot’s packaging feature artwork submitted by art...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Book by Its Cover
Courtesy Harlequin Packaging and branding fantasy as though it were detergent, one-time self-described Procter & Gamble “soap salesman” Larry Heisey (MBA ’54) “turned Harlequin from a niche purveyor of romance novels into a global giant,...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets last summer, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
our reaction to the human problems that this crisis causes.” Breton noted that many in France were angry about rescue packages for banks when ordinary people received no help and were losing their businesses. Summers acknowledged the...
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- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
stage start-ups with good ideas. With respect to the IRA, there is lots of opportunity for public/private partnerships, but both sides have to be flexible. When I was at the Department of Energy, I was responsible for deploying $11 billion of the stimulus View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
other products.” Like for instance, delivering e-commerce packages or being cash-in/cash-out points for financial services in a market with high underbanked rates. And so totally reinvented the model, learning in some ways from what...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
diagnose the problem and treat it. The rescue bill calls for the government to auction banks’ distressed mortgage assets to “try to restore the price discovery process so we can figure out what these things are actually worth.” Light challenged the description of the...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
speak the same language. In some ways, he’s helping me translate my experience from PepsiCo and from packaged goods to this reality, which has been really helpful.” And it feels like the three have a shared mission, says Cunningham....
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
the dark of evening. “I got a package here; just need a signature,” he says, straining for a look inside the house. Whitman tilts her phone 90 degrees, switching from landscape to portrait mode, which triggers a shift in perspective: Now...
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- 10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
ways companies and institutions are thinking about the older worker—[that they] can provide so much value. And it's not the stereotype that they cost more because they're looking for different flexibility in their compensation packages...
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