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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Woods”—a series of demonstrations involving environmental and First Nations activists blocking the path of logging equipment and chaining themselves to trees and bulldozers. The protests attracted international attention and spread beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for consistent quality, and View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
while at the same time, a range of stakeholders can question, claim their share, or put up guardrails around that headlong rush toward change. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
actually put wheels in motion—and they didn’t jump up and down,” she says. The experience stumped Hoffman, and as she began to have more similar encounters over the next few years, she began to see politics, as she puts it, get in the way... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Courtesy Red Lobster Dan Morrell: Kim Lopdrup (MBA 1984) is a turnaround expert. Early in his career, he helped revive Dunkin Donuts’ American coffee business and then turned his View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
1970s, Fung explained, Hong Kong was merely a manufacturing center for low-end products. "Frankly, we were becoming increasingly uncompetitive. The opening up of China in 1979 was a godsend." One delegate asked how Fung saw Hong Kong... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
execute. Saying hi to your team in the morning, picking up your kids from day care. Just do it. On things that...take a lot of time and aren't very important, you have to regulate those. That's the 147 average emails we get a day. That's... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
needed to use one, and even with the guidance, there’s a moment we almost end up in Canada. We’re headed to Brightmoor, a neighborhood on the northwest edge of the city. It is also known as “Blight More.” Although it is not quite seven... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on customer interaction. Average customer count is up at this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
questioning go hand in glove. Innovators observe things, then question why. If you want to be an innovative person, when you see things, you have to pay attention and then wonder why. A good illustration of observing and questioning is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
thought that was a great starting point. So, if you peeping into my window is illegal for you to do as a human, a drone shouldn't be allowed to fly up and peer into my window. So, I think that there are things we could do to have smart... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
possible that the kinds of ideas women are pitching—like diapers, clothing, and underwear—can help them stand out to VCs. “We are coming up with ideas that maybe men wouldn’t, and that’s a good thing.” Pelluru cited another study by... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
feet?” Moore asked in astonishment. “Thirty thousand feet?” There, marked on the map with the same attention given any other summit was an indistinct sketch of a mountain, labeled Mount Koonka, height 30,000 feet above sea level. A curly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
people, trying to get them to trust you. And the more authentic that bond is, the better leader you become. And it's that simple. You don't have to come up with any other fancy formula. And as soon as I internalized that, it totally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system. The consensus seemed to be built... View Details