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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
every day. In addition to coffee, Starbucks offers tea, pastries, and gift packages; distributes coffee-flavored ice cream and beverages to supermarkets; and maintains the retail Web site starbucks.com. Smith oversaw the company's IPO in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
producers and a lot more executives. And now the studio makes a lot less movies, maybe almost a third less movies. And as a result, there are fewer producers and fewer executives to service those movies. So that's a big change as well. And then lastly, View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
meeting with the CEO, Lo drew him a network diagram of what the future infrastructure of TV distribution was going to look like. “It’s all going to be bits and bytes,” she told him. Lo would later help stitch together some 200 European... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
fellowship program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the success of the School, cannot be overstated.” —Jana Kierstead “We know that talent is much more evenly distributed than opportunity,” says... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
last year, which enabled her to spend six months in Singapore and six months in Shanghai conducting on-the-ground research and engaging with business leaders throughout the region. “I am interested in how globalization affects domestic View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
States was founded, a postal system (including roads) for the distribution of mail, copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and a plethora of newspapers and books were extant. The advent of electricity spawned the telegraph,... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
extra effort paid off. Revenue grew by $5.6 million over the previous year to $113 million. HBP and Executive Education helped to offset the $12 million drop in the School’s endowment distribution to $101 million. At the end of the fiscal... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
employees. During the Great Depression, Levi Strauss workers were kept on the payroll refurbishing their factory until business picked up. In 1982, when current CEO Bob Haas learned that employees were nervous about distributing AIDS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there’s a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic activity and business innovation will be much more widely distributed... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
with their eyeballs in the television industry. They’re moving from local, independent content to nationally produced content, presumably because it’s a better viewing experience. That ultimately will decide this matter. And as the benefits of bigness in program View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
fixation of broken bones had been produced in Switzerland by a separate manufacturing company and distributed in the United States. Wyss undertook a vigorous change of direction, first building a manufacturing plant in Colorado to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of finance options; and a View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
complementary producers, distribution channels, and consumers must often develop new capabilities, beliefs, and behaviors for the product to succeed, creating a challenge for the innovator.” Tripsas has developed a number of cases for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“Back-end” deals, or profit-sharing after a film has been released, also vary widely — if the producer is even included in that aspect of the contract. “Controlling the capital, rights, and distribution are the three keys,” observes Zee,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale and retail View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
new firm. "I realized in 1991 that China was going to be the most extraordinary place to invest for the next several decades," he notes. "After trying a few paths, we've decided to focus on sales and distribution to the Chinese consumer.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or gender. The products and curriculum... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
twenty-five million kids don't go to school. There are too many people dying due to lack of vaccines, and the world is showing an increasing inequity in terms of the distribution of assets and income. The rich are getting richer, and the... View Details