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01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school: recent events and View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

security company, with classmate Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), five years ago. For Zatlyn, who oversees user experience at CloudFlare, the trend is encouraging: “I don’t want to discourage women from getting into this industry. There are a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

compete against Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and BP Amoco. In fact, these three "supermajors," with 1999 revenues of approximately $161 billion, $105 billion, and $83 billion, respectively, are themselves the result of recent merger activity. The View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

Toys. It has set up its manufacturing channels to meet the strict schedules that these stores require. Still, Moynihan is discouraged by trends in the retail market. “Some of the smaller toy shops are really struggling, and that is bad... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

Sviokla, "and before, during, and after that concert you could be offering viewers the opportunity to buy records, magazines, and other merchandise." As they nervously eye the Internet, record executives continue to search the globe for the new group or View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to billion-dollar businesses. “We saw an... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

space-related startups, including Skybox Imaging, a satellite-imagery company acquired by Google for $500 million in 2014, and Spire, a data-gathering company headed by Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) that has raised $80 million in total. Nowhere in space has the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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