by Karen Mills - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2024
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Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

(bottom left) for a virtual chat about behavioral economics. Karen Horgan (MBA 1999) (top right) served as moderator; Club president Roger Cole (MBA 1985) (bottom right), and Dan Barash (MBA 2000) (top left) joined the discussion. Fifty... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Oct 2014
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Small, but fierce: How tiny firms can pack a big punch

01 Mar 2016
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Feedback

characterizes the sector. But the sad state of traditional public education negatively impacts all of us—even those who can afford private school for their children. I’m puzzled, though, by his organization’s support of the proposal for... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14

1.0. But food is one of the biggest industries on the planet, and the tech that supports it hasn't changed in 30 years. Stay tuned for big innovation." —Nick Taranto (MPA/MBA 2010), cofounder, Plated Karen Tumulty "History—with the recent... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

there are situations such as Venezuela, which can’t feed its own people anymore.” For another case, Alvarez toured Molino Cañuelas’s flour mills in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and examined the company’s milling... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Leadership Fellows

Hospital for Special Surgery; Ebele Mora, Year Up; and Karen Tang, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Not pictured: Chris Hurst, Mercy Corps, and Casey Littlefield, Social Finance. SUPPORTING SUCCESS: Fellowship donor Lou Fouts (MBA 1996) with... View Details

27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Apr 2000
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Marketing Muscle

On her first foray into Silicon Valley, Karen Edwards (MBA '90) didn't have much success finding the job she wanted: head of marketing at an Internet company. Told she didn't know enough about technology, Edwards persevered and finally... View Details

11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution

Principles Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Imran Amed Rethinking the Fashion Beat Rethinking the Fashion Beat Áslaug Magnúsdóttir... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance

01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward

South Carolina, Representative Tom Rice—both of whom have included the US Competitiveness tenets in their respective agendas. Shared Prosperity To help address stagnant middle- and working-class household incomes, Senior Fellow Karen... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
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Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

THE CHALLENGE: Ana Shukla shares advice on securing venture capital. Karen Kerrigan and Brigitte Baumann (far left, center) stressed the importance of mentors and networks. As a first-time entrepreneur, Ana Shukla launched a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999

run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the workers questions about their jobs. “I was very curious,” says Marcelo, who... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young