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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
today’s largest venture capital firms to focus “almost exclusively [on] chasing unicorns,” leaving companies that boast lower valuations and more modest risk/return profiles out in the cold. Indeed, data suggests that more money is... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
determining what market research to buy to aid their choice of commercials. As data on the copy concepts from focus groups and customer surveys were revealed, many students found that they had to adjust... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
the lawyers or the accountants. Schleyer: The big offenders get people talking, but I don't believe the American public has in general lost confidence in corporate America. Wagoner: Realistically, yes, the data suggest that business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
opportunities? The most successful entrepreneurs I interviewed demonstrated that the key is to focus on finding customer problems first, and only then on searching for solutions that can help. “The real dividing line is simple,” explained... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel? What if we assumed that View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
other data by geography, and is now working on Common Pass, a platform that will pull clinical information from Common Health and Apple Health to allow travelers to display health status. The goal is to use the information to facilitate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate trends in MBA enrollments... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
launch were exhausting but exciting as we raced to hit our deadlines. We were living the Silicon Valley dream. The afternoon before the launch, I had retreated to a quiet restaurant to work alone when my phone rang. It was our data center... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Knowledge, and more. For too many graduates this has not felt personal or convenient enough given the busy lives they lead. The web, of course, offers new and intriguing possibilities; as we refine our ability to customize content based... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Rob Ristagno (MBA 2005) Independently published Ristagno guides you step-by-step through the five forces of dramatic online revenue growth and shows why it is vital to identify your very best customers and focus relentlessly on their... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details