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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
like Gone with the Wind, a theater owner simply had to screen the movie for people to line up around the block. Today, with movies showing at multiple times and locations, to say nothing of the dizzying array of entertainment options, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
country in the world. From the beginning, and in line with AKDN’s overarching principle of conducting ethical business practices, however, Khoja drew a hard line against making or receiving bribes of any... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As she expanded Bluemercury beyond... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score (or should I say “SCO-ORE!”),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
in Europe. Where to draw the line on sharing data with regard to tracking COVID-19 is part of the challenge for students, as it presumably was for Tim Cook as well. The pandemic is covered in the update to the case published in 2023. How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
says of conventional farming. Instead, he rebalances the soil's content naturally, adding crushed rock that includes calcium, magnesium, and other essential minerals while letting cow manure, and Mother Nature, do the rest. "When people ask me how many View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
employees have spouses or partners who are also employed, compared with 66 percent in 1988. Nearly half of all workers have children under age eighteen who live with them at least half time. Seventy percent of all parents feel they do not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees created a group called “Amazon employees for climate justice” and they staged a walkout. They walked out of the Seattle headquarters. When they did, they were joined by View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
look to us as a source of information to help them with that. They can be seventy years old and care about how they look, or they can be seventeen. How have your product lines evolved? We started with a core brand definition of providing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
tents, and other gear for maximum performance, comfort, and enjoyment. And now, shoes. Last year the Timberland Company, a heavyweight in the footwear business, acquired the GoLite brand for its new line of strong but super-lightweight... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
support lined up, Tierney and Bradach faced a final hurdle, writing a business plan. “There was no analysis that could have been done that we hadn’t done,” recalls Tierney. “But it’s one thing to help somebody else write a business plan.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
broke, returned to find his recently renovated house destroyed. Atwood remembers driving around the city, seeing refrigerators ready to be discarded on the curb outside almost every house. And in front of many, there were pianos.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
engineering. There she helped suppliers design and certify their systems for flight: new seats for an aircraft, for example, or a Wi-Fi system for the new Delta Air Lines plane. She was surprised to find that engineers relied on outdated... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
employees were overwhelmingly white.) Then there are the stories. Although few women working in the field will offer details of personal encounters with sexism and sexual harassment, they hear them frequently. In the past year, they’ve... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
focus on what I call the DNA of their corporation. I want boards to answer the questions, What kind of company are we going to be? What is the moral fiber of this company? I want them to conclude that they are not going to skate up to the red View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to ensure product quality. Early on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
succeeded in cutting all major supply lines to the city, and on September 1, Confederate forces under the command of General John Bell Hood evacuated the area. The next day, Sherman’s army marched in, raising the American flag over city... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company executives, and hundreds of View Details