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Charles L. Brown
Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 01 Jun 1997
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Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
available in the United States. What exactly is Feng shui, and why should a businessperson be interested in it? Feng shui is a method for arranging your living and work spaces so that you may tap into the positive energies in your... View Details
John K. Northrop
After frustrating attempts at aircraft engineering with many other firms, John Northrop founded Northrop Aircraft and helped it grow into a very lucrative defense contractor, providing everything from bombers, fighter jets, and reconnaissance planes to the View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
United States Automobile Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Postwar America (New York: Knopf, 2003). Collins, Robert... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in... View Details
Francis C. Brown
Schering, a German company, was one of the first to be seized by the United States during World War II under the Alien Property Custodian Act. Accepting what he thought was a temporary post, Brown built... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Wilbert L. Smith
After leaving behind the first family company, Smith-Premier Typewriter Company, Wilbert and his brothers formed the entity that later became L.C. Smith Corona. Under Wilbert Smith’s leadership, the company re-engineered their product, capitalizing on improvements made... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Reginald F. Lewis
Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his... View Details
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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
windows of stores where products were sold. “There are several general billposters of large capital in the United States who employ an army of men and own space and have facilities for covering any View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
the rest of their years." In fact, China has a history of private enterprise and entrepreneurship that predates the West. "This was a freer economy in 1800 than any part of Western Europe," Kirby argues. Since the takeover by the... View Details
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- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
technology development and entrepreneurship, leading to less initial migration to the United States and greater return migration. More mechanical explanations may also exist—for example, stronger relative... View Details
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Kevin S. Rollag
Kevin Rollag came with his family from Panama to the United States when he was fourteen. Although his Tacoma, Washington community respected education, the prevailing assumption, Kevin says, "is that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription
without coverage in the United States — to establish a tax-supported way to fund their health care. That said, in my view, meaningful reform almost always begins in the private sector. I am encouraged that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Bridging the Gap
retailers’ data, Gently leverages AI to predict demand for inventory, placing it at its centers to meet anticipated demand. The Why: Delivery in the United States is bifurcated between Amazon (two days) and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
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James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
President, Lovell Communications Former Astronaut, Apollo 13 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.S., United States Naval Academy, 1952 On Leadership: “If you aren’t motivated... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
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Dedicated to a public service mission
Western Pacific deployments during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, then joined the private sector at Caustic Soda and, more recently, Dow Solar. Outside the office, he has actively volunteered at his local church and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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UNC's “Accidental” Dean
23, 2003). It’s not quite as improbable as it seems. Jones grew up in western North Carolina and graduated from Chapel Hill in 1974. After earning his MBA, he worked for General Electric and McKinsey before packing his bags for Australia,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
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A Whole New Game
President and CEO Larry Baer (MBA 1985) is spearheading plans to build a $1.6 billion mixed-use development on a waterfront parcel just south of the team’s AT&T Park, also located in downtown. A former vice-chair and co-owner of the Golden View Details
- 28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union
competitiveness. Transformation at this scale will take longer than the typical two-year political cycle, Ballou-Aares says, but already the organization is seeing the first wave of results. Its members are helping drive change in multiple View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
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Growing and Competing at the Local Level
on average reduce that by 44 percent. “I think what’s critical right now is understanding that 98 percent of the manufacturers in the United States are really small and medium sized. It’s that metal bender... View Details