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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
at IBM? What can be done to maximize your group's productivity? What should IBM be doing to maximize the pursuit of business opportunities, based on the purchasing decisions of the customers you deal with? What should IBM be doing to help... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
of his time." Like many other immigrants, Gallatin was in part attracted to America by the allure of its wide open spaces. Owner of an ample tract in Pennsylvania, Gallatin as treasury secretary oversaw elements of western expansion such as the Louisiana View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane working conditions or social or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
employees.” He emphasized that low turnover is a competitive advantage for Starbucks, which depends upon its frontline staff to maintain customer quality for millions of purchases each year. “People don't like to work only for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
purchase monthly shares by weight, rather than à la carte, resulting in a fulfillment process that is “relatively complex and pretty unique,” Cummings says. Every order—with 5 to 30 items, selected from 100 products stacked on a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Bowls 2010 Launches "Kick Cancer" season-long campaign In 1994, Robert Kraft paid a record amount — $172 million — for one of the worst football teams in the NFL. The New England Patriots had lost 36 of their last 50 games and had the lowest revenues in the league.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of production and consumption—1 million plastic bottles are View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
research directly to the community. To that end, the Life Lab has pledged to provide a one-time grant totaling over $60,000 to fully fund the purchase of Chromebook laptops to provide every Allston-Brighton public school student access to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world. Just don't tell that to Justin... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
new public-private partnership to launch the city’s first cooking school. Within a few months of her hire, the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute (NOCHI) had purchased an abandoned, 93,000-square-foot building in downtown New... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
that sells its products in 160 nations. "The biggest thing I worry about is that we'll make an acquisition or expand into a new market that stretches our capabilities beyond what we can really handle," he observes. So far, Lafley's instincts have been right on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
night watchman at nearby Spendthrift Farm. His father had begun to buy and breed a few Thoroughbreds, too. Before long, Clay had caught the bug. In 1972 he purchased a 100-acre parcel of land along the Old Frankfort Pike, about ten miles... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
brand awareness with users and buyers? The Answers: For a large enterprise build with distributed users, it will take too long to get a senior executive to purchase and mandate use, and there will likely be resistance from users. Buying... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service. The company purchases... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
Amazon purchases accounted for about half of the company’s revenue. But Ford quickly discovered the platform wasn’t a perfect fit. In addition to the 18 percent commissions, she had to advertise with the company to ensure her products... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example, used her loan to View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
Working Capital Fund to finance building projects and equipment purchases for labs and scientists. But he quickly discovered a major difficulty with the fund’s model: While projects were receiving full funding each year, it wasn’t always... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
sponsored is used. “It's using this technology to deepen the connection between the person who made the purchase and the actual giving that’s happened,” Matthews says. The Plus app will also let users vote to support beneficial social... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
capable of competing with the big guys: NBC, CBS, and ABC." Underscoring its belief in the value of sports programming, Fox recently purchased (pending Major League Baseball's approval) the Los Angeles Dodgers, another example of a trend... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons