Montana - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2013
News

The Nature of Business

afraid of the private sector, we're non-partisan, and we like very much to get things done on the ground and in the water. Those are the qualities that have allowed us to grow." Tercek (MBA 1984) shares his successes—such as spending half a billion dollars to keep... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

China, Tension’s recent annual sales totaled more than $300 million. In conversation, Berkley moves easily between Tension’s operations and his management philosophy (“hire high-quality people, consult as needed, and let them make the decisions”) and fishing, with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

Wall Street Journal, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Some forecasters packaged snippets of their forecasts to be sold through news syndicates and to appear in daily newspapers such as the Alton (Illinois) Evening Telegraph, the Salt... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

building and thinking, 'I'm going to die if I don't get out of here,' " she says. So in 1993, Rapone became a college freshman again, earning high honors studying wildlife biology at the University of Montana and then entering a Ph.D.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

her unique use of light. Vernon Evans (with his family) of Lemmon, South Dakota, near Missoula, Montana on Highway 10 , 1936. Farm Security Administration Photograph Collection, 1935-1936 VIS 2 39 photographs Collection Guide This... View Details

October 2023
Case

Shredder Setups or Straightlining into Risk?: Investing in What You Love

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Bob Hall, President of Green Gables Partners, evaluated whether to angel invest into an up-and-coming ski brand. As the son-in-law of the founder of Vera Bradley and having retired from a lengthy career on Wall Street, Hall was well-versed in both direct investing and... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Angel Investors; Direct Investment; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Small Business; Financial Strategy; Personal Finance; Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty; Consumer Products Industry; Montana; United States

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09 May 2013
News

Road Trip

companies they will be visiting, and what makes them interesting case studies: Red Ants Pants (White Sulphur Springs, Montana). USA-made work clothes designed to fit women, including 70 sizes of pants. Founded in 2006 by Montana... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

census takers in Watford City, North Dakota—in the far west of the state, 50 miles from the Montana border—counted 1,435 people. Today, that number is estimated to be at least 10,000. A familiar fuel for American boomtowns fed the rapid... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

only give you one year.’ That was 10 years ago,” recalls Lee Shaw. The controversial media campaign—which included TV, print, billboard, and radio ads—saturated Montana from 2005 onward, with the effort spreading to six other states.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

the product! Class Secretary Major Albert C. Riggs, Jr. (MBA '50) August 1974 Up to my ears raising kids, plus skiing at Sun Valley and fly-fishing in Montana and Idaho; working has been interfering something terrible! William B. Webber... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

and go to places like Detroit and New Orleans and rural Montana and see what was happening and see if we could use our education not just to make a buck but to make a difference. Everybody thought we were insane, actually. I mean, here... View Details

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

homestead that had been homesteaded earlier in Montana. So we moved to Montana until the war started. And then my dad got a job in Lincoln. So during the war, I was living in Lincoln, until he was drafted into the Navy. And we lived out... View Details

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