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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
the emphasis has shifted from collection to analysis,” he explains. “And that’s a sea change. It allows a small firm like ours to compete equally from an information standpoint with a giant cargo ship of an organization. That’s a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
caused by hidden munitions on board, may have been the reason why the passenger ship sank in a deadly eighteen minutes, causing 1,198 deaths. As odd as it may sound, he also happens to hold title to the wreck, having purchased it for $1... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
luxury cruise ship designed especially for the South Pacific. Bailey, whose wife, Mireille, is Polynesian, has lived in Tahiti since 1985. “The breathtaking natural beauty of these islands and the astonishing authenticity of the local... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
unflappable? “I don’t think I feel risk the way most people do,” she says with a shrug. “I think it’s because of my mom.” Margaret Whitman was the sort of bold character who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War II and hopped on a View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
makes it much more efficient. By moving negotiations online, the process happens much faster; what used to take months, can now take weeks. Due to the complexity of shipping large quantities of materials worth millions of dollars between... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
the term for the shipping of unsolicited goods, a practice not unfamiliar to contemporary record clubs. "We really set the bar as high as possible," says Koehn. "It was a big gamble, but it worked. The students rose to the occasion... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
life. Giants of the Sea: Ships & Men Who Changed the World By John D. McCown (MBA 1980) Independently published Covering the history and development of modern cargo shipping, Giants of the Sea includes the stories of nine men, those... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis and sterility testing, Moderna... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
leading and overseeing a group of creatives. You have to be brave and flexible enough to allow them to bring what they’re able to bring, while also keeping the ship on course. Knowing where to step in and where to let go is very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
market the grapes, Russo negotiated the transactions. At age 17, she left high school after failing to pass a requisite Grade 10 English exam and quickly parlayed her one marketable skill — typing sixty words a minute without error — into a clerical position at a View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
operating system from 3Com. Within a year they shipped the Visor, a lower-cost PDA that quickly took 30 percent of the handheld market. At the same time, they started developing handheld products with communications technology, which... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is, I think, a pillar of the internet and has such a big audience. It was hard to get that large an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
key shipping routes, making it nearly impossible for the West and the Middle East to transport oil. With nothing less than oil futures and the global economy at stake, one man slips out of the shadows to stop Gorshkov’s maniacal plans:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
items that you circle that you think, hmm. I could have won myself back 30 minutes here or 30 minutes there. And more importantly as you go, you’ll see some themes. Maybe you tend to be a little bit of a perfectionist. You’re always kind of hovering on projects before... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
to make the changes that are needed. I don’t have the same fears about making those changes that most people do. It may come from my experience as a Navy officer on a ship during the Vietnam War. Once you come through a war, your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
clinicians need to take responsibility for letting health care get out of their hands and help right the ship in the way health-care systems are being managed. Physicians can not absolve themselves and simply get mad when finance managers... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
think about can I create some kind of quirky farm-to-table, like, shipping containers and restaurant incubator and something that's really unusual and very different there and so those areas of conflict help me start seeing, “Well there's... View Details