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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
Sweating It Out in Philly; Whiskey Flights in Portland
workout. Amanda Freeman (MBA 2003) at SLT Amanda Freeman (MBA 2003) at SLT A self-described “serial fitness entrepreneur,” Freeman has taken the New York-based SLT from a start-up to a private equity–funded fitness brand with 24 locations... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated the way you might expect it to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
schools and Aspire Public Schools in California). NLNS is well on its way to its goal of training two thousand new leaders to serve some one million urban children. Burns became interested in education when she volunteered to tutor children at Chicago’s Cabrini-Green... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
the lead car was almost thrown out several times. But the company has actually managed to change the world, which is pretty cool. That doesn’t happen all the time.” “The vision has always been compelling, and it’s always been bold,” Wilcox says during my visit to E... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
events (some held in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) build brand awareness and attract sponsorships, contributing just shy of 15 percent to the bottom line. Last year, TheAtlantic.com won a National Magazine Award for best website... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
surmount them or succumb to them. Memorable childhood books? The Laura Ingalls Wilder series that begins with Little House in the Big Woods, for their vivid reconstruction of a world gone by and a child’s place in that world. Those books... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing technologies and deliver... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Holdings, a $300 million fund with investments in several restaurant concepts including Tatte Bakery, CAVA, Life Alive, BJ’s Restaurants and Clover Food Labs. Christian, can you walk me through how the management team at Inspire Brands... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
opportunity came knocking four years later when college fraternity brother William F. (“Rick”) Cronk (AMP 92, 1983), with whom he shared the daily commute, invited Rogers to join him as a partner in a restaurant venture. Rogers hesitated but eventually left McKinsey to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
emissions by more than 30 percent; create housing for an expected 1 million new residents; expand and improve public transportation; cut solid waste in landfills by 75 percent; and achieve the cleanest air quality of any large US city (in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Brooke Shields and the rest of the cast and crew, and Evanson moved the island's clocks ahead one hour to provide additional daylight for filming ("turtle time" has been standard ever since). After the film crew left, Evanson says, "it was a bit like decorating your... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details