Fresh Start - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

solo travelers or small groups. You step inside, press a button for your destination, the door closes, and off you go down a narrow track. Two minutes later—presto, the door opens again and you alight at your destination. You've arrived for your meeting on time and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

local, fresh produce. Our solution will increase efficiency and lower waste. Cloud Forest OrganicsCraig Leon, MBA 1991Cloud Forest Organics is revolutionizing the concept of agribusiness by putting wildlife first. From our 170-acre pilot... View Details

07 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 7

create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant start-up challenges. Every platform View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

make my R&D lab more productive?' Fleming says a better question to ponder is, 'How can I commercialize from this web of connected engineers?' Sara Grant: Can you describe your latest research for our readers regarding small worlds and innovation. Lee Fleming: The... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

each year. One group of students successfully lobbied faculty to create a field-based course on poverty and inequality. Members of one graduating class crafted and signed an MBA Oath with a professional code of ethics. Another class launched a Commit to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

books on entrepreneurship—offered fresh perspectives for investors after the pandemic and for entrepreneurs looking for funding. What I loved most about this world-class event was that the Angels Conference showcased an extremely diverse,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

food improvements started with its nuggets, with McDonald’s announcing in August 2016 that the nuggets would no longer contain artificial preservatives. This past March, it revealed that next year it would be using View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

what does that reality look like? To further understand the families behind the statistics, we asked alumni to offer stories from their successes and struggles—their doubts, their decisions, and their daily routines. “I returned at Booz Allen Hamilton View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Sep 2008
News

The Levitt Brand

LEVITT The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time — not a minute more or less — a slight... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

pollution on local fauna. That evening, just up the hill in the high-ceilinged dining room of Laurel House, those same children will eat a meal served by a recovering opioid addict whom Marietta hired fresh out of a treatment program.... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

the recollections of an enraged top executive who started out with the company as a part-time store clerk in the summer of 1938: "After almost twenty years of steady decline and cutbacks, a debilitating paralysis had overtaken most stores... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health. Ever feel tired during a meeting? That’s because most offices and conference rooms are not bringing in enough fresh air. When that door opens, it... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his promises of a View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Business School Case 409-060 This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Business School Case 517-073 BASF: Co-Creating Innovation (A) In 2016, BASF's chief executive officer and chief technology officer reflected on the co-creation innovation program started almost 18 months ago as part of BASF's 150th... View Details