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- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
chain, which expanded to five locations before succumbing to financial difficulties after several years of struggle. The experience “wiped me out financially,” says Rogers. Down to his last $4,000 and in need of a job, he dropped in one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
percentage of revenues as well. Potential employees can post their résumé and use the Mom Corps job bank at no charge; they can also pay a fee to have their résumé revamped. The challenge of maintaining Mom Corps’ sense of identity and level of service at every... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
presenting informative photo displays of the latest large-size footwear, the Web site (www.designershoes.com) offers a special service to locate and ship hard-to-find items. "We get e-mails from people searching, say, for size 13AAA boots... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Strategic Networking
making contacts have an outside perspective that can be informative for someone who has been working at one job for any length of time. That’s a valuable asset, too.” Alumni Career Services is located in Teele Hall, 230 Western Ave:... View Details
Keywords: Networking
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
written of his personal experience with the healthcare system. Cue MinuteClinic, located in 640 CVS stores across 25 states. Staffed with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, it provides on-the-spot care for routine ailments such... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
him by Max. Starting with one store in the 1950s financed by his mother’s trust fund, his father has taken advantage of the heyday of shopping malls to grow the St. Louis–based business to hundreds of locations across the United States.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. Oui, La... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York.... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
located in Copley Township, Ohio, and the younger Downing wanted to help take the family business to the next level. So instead of medicine, Downing studied business at Bowling Green State University, and later earned his Harvard MBA, all... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
maneuvers. A collision that damaged the sensitive, lower portion of the submersible where the critical “drop weights” were located would certainly end the dive and possibly the expedition. After a few tense minutes, the Pressure Drop... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
first location at Boston’s Logan Airport last December. “The fundamentals of the company have not really changed,” she says, adding that the contest gave her the courage to take the entrepreneurial leap. “Having a bunch of smart people... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
largest open-field tomato farm in the country. For Mehta, the path to these 25 irrigated hectares, located 45 minutes outside Kaduna, Nigeria, began in 2008, when she was working on HIV issues in the country on behalf of the Clinton... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
offered new students not only social events to help them get acquainted but also a central location where they could obtain information on everything from purchasing computers to buying groceries. Through it all, Hughes proved to be a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
money, second, " he says. Located in Austin, Texas, Sherwood Forest Faire—Appling's recreation of a 16th-century medieval village—has earned great success in its first four years. Renaissance magazine dubbed Sherwood the Best New Festival... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
music-based festivals and other events in 22 US and 23 international locations each year. Before joining Wanderlust last December, it struck her that she’d never worked in a place where would-be employees’ number one reason for applying... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
for disabled travelers and their companions. THE BREHMS: On location in Lisbon, working to make the world accessible to individuals with physical challenges. Photo courtesy of Darren Brehm In 1993, Faith and I were seriously injured in a... View Details