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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
compounded the sense of uncertainty and fear. We saw something quite similar in 2008. Bear Stearns failed in March of that year, which obviously reflected a very serious financial situation. By later that spring, however, things had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
searching for new leads. In 2008, Benjy came across an article on halofuginone (HT-100), a drug compound derived from an ancient Chinese herb that had shown promising results in treating muscular dystrophy in mice. They tracked it down to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
middle of a big room,” recalls Whitman from eBay’s headquarters, now called the Whitman Campus, in San Jose, California. Initially uninterested in the CEO position, upon meeting eBay founder Pierre Omidyar she realized this was no ordinary opportunity. “The company had... View Details
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Filling the White Space
companies involved in research into psychedelic compounds for medical use. (Compass has been granted a US patent that covers a method of obtaining psilocybin to treat drug-resistant depression; the treatment is in a phase IIb clinical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
progress can come when you look for common ground.” For business leaders who want to have an impact on solving big social problems, Shumway observes, “There’s so much need. Look around and start with something small. Our work on homelessness began when my family and I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 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
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers... 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
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
packaging.” Down to the Last Drop Macro Oceans extracts value from every last ounce of raw materials, from the high-value, bioactive compounds that the beauty industry is demanding, all the way down to the seaweed cellulose that’s... 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 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on the Special Ops Battlefield by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
had honed throughout his 33-year career, he overhauled the company’s culture, redefined its leadership capability, and increased earnings by a compound annual growth rate of 125 percent. In No Bullsh!t Leadership, Moore outlines his... View Details
- 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 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and that was View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
the elders over a cup of tea to explain what you’re doing, he was told. Notify a village two days before beginning tower construction—that way the men can ensure their women will be inside and not visible over compound walls. “Two years... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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