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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
feel like a million dollars, because I had successfully defended my position in front of 70 people and a tough professor. I was in love with marketing from then on, but Chip Bupp, my operations and production management professor, showed... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
operations around the world, and magnesium chloride extracted from the water is integral to the production of aluminum alloys that are essential for manufacturing soda cans, cell phones, and fighter jets. Water from the GSL, Steed added,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
shipped cost-effectively,” he explains. Mountz moved on to another job, but found himself still pondering the challenge almost two years later in an brainstorming session with some former MIT classmates. “We decided products that could... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
way to solve it. Morrell: With this goal and the investments from Omidyar and others, Ruma pivoted and soon rebranded as Mapan, a word that implies something is “financially self-sufficient.” Haryopratomo: What Mapan does is it solves a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
business and pursue their own ventures—whether they are just starting out with a great idea or are ready to go to market. In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, a number of current and former teams in the Venture Program doubled down or View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
her competition—Macy’s—is now her partner. “When you are uncomfortable, you are learning and growing.” “When you are uncomfortable, you are learning and growing.” Beck has a remarkable ability to set high goals and achieve them. Frustrated that drugstores didn’t carry... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
interesting challenge and also an opportunity. Myself, I was getting burned out on working on digital products and keeping people glued to their phones, and so to have the chance to pivot into something... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
organizing committee. “Consumers, workers, government, and financial institutions are putting increasing pressure on companies to provide more sustainable products and services. We felt it would be interesting to share how leadership is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting new technologies will... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Americans.’” —Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986), coauthor (with Nicholas D. Kristof) of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, forthcoming in January MUST READ Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change by Matt Wallaert “I love... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and iTrust’s fledgling customer base... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
its pipeline, Moderna had refined its development process—which begins with an analysis of a virus’s messenger RNA (mRNA)—and it had improved its production capabilities. Two months earlier, when he'd met NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
patience. Or, in a world where consumer expectations are so much higher, pushing your team to step up just a bit more versus taking your foot off the gas to allow for rest and recovery. Or doubling down on an idea you’re committed to seeing through versus View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
forced to work from home in the pandemic, it pivoted from B2B sales to a consumer-focused business plan. The shift allowed Nyamumbo to more fully realize her initial goal of connecting producer and consumer. According to Nyamumbo,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
range of online cyber attacks, from spam to large DDoS attacks, and will make it easy to add third-party services. That first sentence of the business plan is what we do today. I think that it’s gotten broader, but we didn’t really pivot... View Details