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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
people in the company and the person who is working the assembly line or answering the phones. How do you stay in touch with those who work for you? Mühlemann: Walking around, seeing customers together with colleagues, e-mail,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
By Rick Zedník (MBA 2002) “Good morning,” our professor, Frances Frei, greeted us at 8:40 a.m. on September 12, 2001. Slowly pacing at the front of the lecture hall, lip quivering, she followed those two words with twenty seconds of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
number of working women who’ve experienced negative health consequences as a result of the pandemic is 10 to 12 percentage points higher than men. It’s stress, a sense of being overwhelmed, depression—all of the conditions that occur when you have too much on your... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Variety, “(t)he Fund will contribute on a sustained, long-term basis to organizations on the front lines of the fight for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.” JULY 23 John Foley (MBA 2001),... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
an unknowledgeable, unsophisticated person with no analytics of a certain set type that you need to make decisions provided. We had no investment committee. People just lined up in front of my desk as if I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
and systems, I'd lose the finance side." On the subject of finance, she emphasizes, "The bottom line is that the Olympics - especially when they're privately funded - are a big business in which you're trying to make a profit. Some people... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of... View Details
- 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
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and the other misdeeds of the mortgage crisis, remains the standard when it comes to unbridled corporate greed. Enron went bankrupt in 2001 after using a series of accounting schemes to exaggerate its bottom line and then bullying people... 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 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
now has 140 employees and forecasted revenues of $125 million in 2009. Behind those figures, however, is the story of a company that has survived more than one brush with the void by reinventing itself through continuous, deep-seated... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
expatriate employees ride them. By comparison, through the Go-Jek app a user could now summon a ride in seconds just as a New Yorker could summon an Uber. Routes were traceable, fares were calculated transparently, and passengers could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Relations, and one of the driving forces behind the School's Global Alumni Conferences, began by praising the conference cochairs' hard work and dedication in organizing the event. In his remarks to the capacity crowd, he quipped that Ewald Wessels had become a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
Tank ($300,000 for 15 percent of the company) and an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The Question: Traditional card display stands won’t work for Lovepop’s creations, in part because the stands only show the front of a card. They... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
any yard lines or boundary lines. For some of the children, Swearengin says, it was their first opportunity to play on a team and to experience a need to be accountable to their peers. Some were also lucky enough to take their first trips... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason,... View Details