Fresh Start - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

20 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 20

eventual recovery? How far could Target go in emphasizing low price—the "pay less" side of its slogan—without eroding the company's core promise of offering unique and upscale products that customers would not see at other low-priced retailers? Would the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

this system is extraordinarily new. The US News and World Report, which everyone knows in the United States, started its college rankings in 1983 because it was a failing news magazine that needed another business to stay in print. That's... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

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

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Art Nature Business

inside the red earth is to work emotionally. What does the earth feel like to touch? What does the smell of fresh icy mountain breeze taste like? Painting is my gateway to connect with nature on a deeper level." KIM KEEVER July 6 ,... View Details

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

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Print View - Course Catalog

Reserved. Avoiding Startup Failure Course Number 1740 Senior Lecturer DJ DiDonna Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Career Focus Avoiding Startup Failure will be of interest to students who: Plan to start their own companies,... View Details

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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing their personal identities. In a field experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

adopted community, talking to everyone who came into Caravia Fresh Foods, the specialty grocery and deli owned by Ryan Cognetti—maker of that fateful chicken sandwich—and his family. Having served on multiple political campaigns, she... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental stewardship, and economic prosperity. Dow... View Details