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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
including travel, banking, telecommunications, and credit card services. Not satisfied with dominating Japan’s e-commerce landscape, Mikitani believes the company’s future lies in taking its online expertise global. Since 2008, Rakuten... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary of Swiss commodity... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
Bond stayed on. The work was all-encompassing as the company emerged into a new life. The once-struggling wireless company with spotty coverage and no iPhones launched the “un-carrier” marketing strategy, acquired discount wireless provider MetroPCS, and became... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
a routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology - especially Internet technology - is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web trading has revolutionized the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My family comes from a tradition... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
computing, what would you say?’ “The purpose of technology is to help people solve problems. In the same way that poetry is more about symbol and metaphor than grammar and spelling, technology is more about understanding and connecting to people than defining... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Katrina knocked out operations at the New Orleans headquarters and the Long Beach plant, pushing the business to the brink. Advanced planning saved vital data and operations, but Oreck credits employees with actually saving the company.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Enterprises, an international trade consulting and investment firm, Franklin has worked in government with five U.S. presidents, including service as secretary of commerce in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. A.G. Lafley... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have become skewed to the very wealthy.... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
As a trade negotiator, economic official, and scholar, Naoko Munakata (MBA 1990) has been immersed in Japan’s economic revitalization effort for the last 25 years. In 2013, as director-general for trade... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
continuity. "A smooth transition will be accomplished," the veteran government official vowed. Hui noted that the long-term future looks bright as well: trade with the mainland, now Hong Kong's biggest View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
profits, as most industrialized countries use. In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is earned. But none of our major View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
actors. “The richest countries are the biggest promoters of lawlessness in international trade and finance,” Baker writes in his 2005 book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel. “In a process that parades as agreeable enterprise illegal money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the Chicago Board of View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty certain you can View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai