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- 01 Oct 2000
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concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the heavy travel season. Ship fares are set differently from air rates, and comparisons are difficult. The steamship conference agrees on certain minimums that may be exceeded by individual lines. Tourist... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Player One. And recently it’s felt like the right time in terms of technological advancements, accessibility, and investment for a field like VR to really start taking off and I wanted to be there when it did.” What promise do you think VR holds for View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
can be commercial." Roslyn Braeman Payne (MBA 1970), president of Jackson Street Partners in San Francisco, California, is the "angel" whose financial support launched Antares. "While supporting an AIDS-focused program in San Francisco," Payne explains, "I saw the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
ventured into Kansas City and Chicago. But that meant marketing under a different name — another of Rogers’ many war stories. A year after Rogers and Cronk bought Dreyer’s, a lawyer from Kraft Foods, owner at the time of nationally... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
points out, many different actors must come together to form an entrepreneurial ecosystem, from risk-taking founders to the angel investors willing to gamble on them to the service providers—e.g., real estate agents, lawyers—willing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individuals to whom you are speaking or writing to begin thinking, 'You know, maybe this guy . . . does have a valid point.' " From Pareto's optimal outcomes to Plato's Republic, the authors draw on academic research, classical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from companies that keep his... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
you're the president, but our differences about how to run it are getting bigger, and our relationship is deteriorating quickly. I think the best thing is for me to leave." The elder Pellegrin, 58 years old, was momentarily stunned. His... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book?... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
individuals and organizations. For example, while footwear-and-apparel giant Nike is famous for its multimillion-dollar endorsement contracts with individual athletes such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills
of the Newport, Rhode Island–based organization. “It’s like living in two different worlds. I run a nonprofit, but I apply all for-profit principles to it. Consequently, we achieve great outcomes with very low cost, per participant,” he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaders have led very different career and life journeys but have shared a common approach to propel themselves and others to success. This approach involves the P-Ling Power framework, which the authors explicate: its genesis, how it... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
individuals succeed in their innovative endeavors. In addition, each chapter provides a link to a short video that reveals further insights, mostly from the innovators themselves. Seven Climbs: Finding the Finest Climb on Each Continent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
merchants basically built a portfolio of these highly risky ventures. A lot of the boats didn't come back. Some of the boats didn't come back full or didn't pay off. And with that approach, were able to really build an industry. And that model of investing in View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
transformational educational experience. “Fellowships bring together individuals from different circumstances who each have their own dreams of how they might make the world a better place,” notes Felix... View Details