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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in one study, promoted tacit... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a mobile app] to customers to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
dramatically over the course of the decade she’d taught the course—with globalization, the Internet, and mobile technology all increasing the pace of business and making innovation essential. In her quest to find new models, she had... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts isn’t enough to ensure they... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
mobile application. We currently offer destination information on Washington, D.C., Chicago, Boston, and London on the mobile app and hope to cover as many as 150 places. Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) Jana Care —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
to provide early childhood education, post-trauma psychosocial support for children, parents, and women, and preschool learning materials and hygiene kits for families in container villages and other locations in the region via mobile... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration is high, even among low-income... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
faculty and staff. One employee who was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
journey became the genesis of Saga. Cofounded with Nicole Wee (MBA 2018), Saga is a social mobile app that helps families save and share stories in an audio format. Launched in mid-2020, the company currently has six full-time View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
contracts with more than 200 government agencies in 40 states in the US and 60 countries worldwide. Its overseas business includes offices in a dozen countries, mostly in Europe, as well as in Asia and the Middle East. More than half of INRIX’s 400 View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
business: Investing in employees keeps churn rates down and distinguishes Hello Alfred in a moment when quantity of transactions often wins out over quality of service. “If we serve our employees well, then... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
relations powerhouse Hill & Knowlton) for $566 million. It was the equivalent of a minnow swallowing a whale. "They were thirteen times our size, but it was an opportune moment to strike," he explains. "JWT had lost some high-profile accounts, and there was... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
but Mark Kramer and Michael Porter had a whole course focused on the issue, and the students said, “Would it really make a difference?” The problems we face are so big that even if every corporation in the world cleaned up its own act and paid its own View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
a little bit too intrusive. But I found that the gentleman that time was having a vacation in France. So that day I said, "Good. I have to go. I have to find Tim because he is close by." Morrell: So on June 2017, Piero calls Tim's mobile... View Details