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- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Hatchery Chicago will remove these barriers by providing rentable private and shared kitchen space, cold and dry storage, shipping and loading docks, and general meeting and work space. It will also offer industry-specific coaching and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
projected tenure of 12 months or longer. The Review Committee's preference is to fund graduates who are joining operating companies over those joining investment funds/vehicles. Your job is based full-time in a country or territory in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Americas. Among the top players in the U.S. toy market, LEGO stands out because it is a privately held company that has been owned by the same Danish family since it was founded in 1932. Unlike most in this... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Marketing
SimplyAnalytics: for B2C, map out consumers, business counts, and other criteria using Census data and Nielsen and Simmons psychographic data. Tegus: searchable database of transcripts of expert calls between investors and industry experts to provide industry... View Details
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When Generations Learn Together
What happens when a father and son team up to attend executive education programs together? Bracken Seaberg (BS) and Jim Seaberg (JS) discuss their shared experiences in Private Equity and Venture Capital and Changing the Game:... View Details
- Profile
Mira Mehta
conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
productivity has multiplied four- or fivefold in the last fifteen years,” beams Khoo Teng Chye (110th AMP), group president of PSA. “Our company is a world leader in applying technology to port management and fully automating operations.”... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
that people in the bottom 20 percent were not just in low-paying jobs. Unusually large numbers that wanted jobs had none and hadn't had paying work for months. Couple that with the following: How many times in the past twelve months have you read or heard the comment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Prita Kumar
private equity. Her focus was on consumer retail, her personal passion, and all that talk around the dinner table helped shape her vision as an emerging entrepreneur. “It just made sense to start something that was consumer facing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
origin effect getting better across the region – or not? Have there been situations in South Asia where innovation is harmful to company or thecommunity? How should companies deal with innovations which... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
sector. There was a big boom, a few years ago, in these private space enterprises trying to go public through special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). In a SPAC, somebody would start a View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
A Century of Birthday Candles
resident. “The View From 100” recounts how Duff was 6 years old at the beginning of the Great Depression and just finishing high school when the United States entered World War II. Most of the boys in her class were drafted; not many came home. Doris got a job at an... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
economists, privatized state assets. The case provides an opportunity to explore how this happened, and what its impact was both at the time and for the subsequent development of capitalism in Russia. Berevosky's business empire suffered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
officials to take steps to enhance competitiveness. “While government policy sets the platform, companies have an essential role in improving the business environment in US communities,” says Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details