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- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
Image credit: iStock / -Antonio- Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. During this spring’s reunions, the Skydeck crew set up shop on Spangler lawn and asked returning alumni... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
services industry that includes supermarket chains, shopping malls, wind energy, and banks. Both his son, Murat (MBA 2003), and daughter, Aysecan (who holds an MBA from Stanford), work closely with him. "I'm still a hands-on manager of my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
Brad VanAuken Founder and President, BrandForward Brad VanAuken Photo courtesy of Brad VanAuken 6,179 alumni are in the "consulting business" 2,425 alumni work in marketing 1933 "Father of the consulting industry" Marvin Bower (MBA 1930) joins James McKinsey's small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
says, attributing the success of the partnership to the fact that Time Inc. did its homework well. “They are a magazine shop just like us. They’re completely committed, and they’re the best in their business.” Expanding across the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
and the exchange of ideas, but will also help catch problems, flaws, and weaknesses before they multiply. Koehn: From the standpoint of organizations, it strikes me that what we have is an opportunity for companies that run a clean shop —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
actually just roam around the street and say, oh, I like this, I like that. And I like this pair of shoes, I’m going to buy something. What you’re doing is you’re discovering, and that’s the true shopping experience that the world’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
Thomas Pink are assured of something else, Tranthi notes: “I’m going to wear this shirt, and it’s going to make me feel great. That’s why luxury brands command a premium — it’s an emotional buy.” Needless to say, customer service is at the heart of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
rich Brazilians. That sprawling financial district outside Sender's window? It didn't exist 20 years ago. "This was a swamp," she says. "There was nothing." Now it's considered one of the city's "downtowns," with lunch hour mobs of dress shirts and heels flooding... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
of meat from the kitchen and cook a meal. And the next day he'd do it again. I'm like, this is so inefficient. Why do you do that? Just shop for a week. He was like, no, no, no. You've got to have fresh ingredients every day. And well,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a.m. with the Mayor. You should wear: Black blazer (Banana Republic).” Different screens in the prototype show a photo of the suggested outfit for the day; shopping suggestions with prices and store information; a photo inventory of all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
thing in common: Harvard MBAs. Visitors to Crawford, Texas, get presidential treatment. A billboard with the town’s most famous part-time resident, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75), gives the “thumbs-up” while First Lady Laura Bush beams at his side. Souvenir View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the McDonald’s in the shopping center across Main Street from FreshBox Farms could be offering meatless burgers soon: The fast-food chain recently announced a trial partnership with Beyond Meat, whose products are made in part from yellow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
year’s contest make their pitches. Each plan presents a solid solution to an unmet need, so much so that it seems virtually impossible to pick just one. In fact, the strong field forces a new coda to the contest’s history when Baby.com.br (“Brazil’s one-stop View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
seating programs. They see this as an essential revenue stream if the salary demands of top players are to be met and if a franchise is really going to be competitive." Thus franchises - many with roots in their cities dating back decades - have themselves begun to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
done, but we retain U.S. production. That flexibility and one-stop shopping is a key to attracting business.” For manufacturing operations conducted in China, CGM has experienced on-site teams that are well-versed in Chinese culture,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Matchabelli, the son of nobility in Georgia and an amateur chemist. He began blending perfumes for his friends at an antique shop in New York before founding his own perfume company in 1926 . The social importance of smelling and looking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
introduces his famous term “creative destruction”: “The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organized development from the craft shop and factory to giant concerns illustrate the same process of industrial mutation —... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry