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- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
necks). For the day celebrating a sectionmate with a hyphenated compound name, everyone replaced their namecards with ones with hyphenated names. 1990H. Besides all the things I think a lot of sections have done (“the wave,” the quote of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
anyone in business and sales. The book ends with a series of analytical exercises to illuminate basic principles on which readers can base business plans. The Power Curve: Smart Investing Using Dividends, Options, and the Magic of View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
weekly Tupper Lake Free Press about an idea for a regional nature museum in the heart of his beloved Adirondack Mountains, he picked up the phone. Clifford, who still goes by his childhood nickname “Obie” when he’s in Upstate New York, spent his boyhood summers at a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
have been increasingly demanding a bachelor’s degree for jobs that didn’t traditionally require one. Since only a third of the US population has a bachelor’s degree, the pool of candidates for those positions is limited. Compounding the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
with living things or organic compounds will have a common language and, in turn, a common business," he asserts in "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution," a McKinsey Award-winning article he coauthored in... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
that teach different aspects of financial literacy. Celebrity Calamity focuses on the ins and outs of credit card debt; Farm Blitz: teaches users about debt, savings, and compound interest; Bite Club, billed as “the world’s first-ever... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
commandments by God to serve the poor.” Crane led Opportunity International until 2009, after growing private revenues by 30 percent, compound annual growth rate, and increasing its client base from 375,000 to 1.5 million. He also walked... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
difficult to manage and prone to conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. An inherent lack of flexibility compounds these challenges, because most projects involve binary “go/no-go” decisions. Esty uses the forthcoming... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
that historically, federal disaster policy has not produced effective risk monitoring sufficient to curtail the kind of risky behaviors (such as reckless building) that compound losses when natural disasters strike. With that in mind, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
Photos by Richard Bolger Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) crossed the world many times in three decades as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, an international distributor of compounds for industrial,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
So what we’re saying is, OK, if people are going to buy homes with low down payments, we need to recognize that these sorts of mortgages are riskier. Regulators should limit the use of adjustable-rate mortgages for these loans, which View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
Cytokinetics, Inc., a South San Francisco–based company that focuses on treatments for debilitating diseases that compromise muscle function, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), heart failure, and spinal muscular atrophy. View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
list of clients such as Genentech, Merck, and Procter & Gamble, Hazleton tested concepts and compounds and was deeply involved in the development of everything from contact lenses to chemotherapy drugs. Over the next two decades, Nielsen,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
$2.8 billion on June 30, 2007, contributed $7 million to revenue growth. The market value of the HBS endowment and current use funds has grown at a compound annual rate of 16.1 percent for the past five years. For the first time in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
chirality) of drug molecules with a high degree of accuracy for drug development and diagnostic applications. Chemical compounds excreted by predators that stimulate avoidance behavior in disease-carrying rodents, to be formulated as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
handle the rockier, less sandy soils of Wisconsin—yet has to fit under the 8-foot-high shade cloth that ginseng depends on. “We’ve started using a lot more technology to reduce the dependence on farm labor,” Hsu says, “but you can only do so much.” View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs