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and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details

01 Sep 2003
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Kumar Mahadeva

Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism, he... View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

institutions, he says, and small-business lending is one of the least automated parts of the U.S. banking system. That means it relies mostly on commercial bankers making personal judgments about borrowers. Ballard says when his father... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

director of the New York Times Company. Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Chairman Emeritus, USAA In 1993, after a 25-year tenure at the United Services Automobile... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

White House, however, public service soon called. In 1993, the President appointed Brody to be chairman and president of the government's trade financing agency, the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He served until early 1996,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2006
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Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

loved the exchange of ideas. He loved seeing young people who were eager to learn.” Levitt was born in 1925 in Vollmerz, Germany, and moved with his family to Dayton, Ohio, a decade later to escape the encroaching Nazi threat. Drafted into the View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2011
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RoboCar, the Sequel

Alden Photo courtesy William Alden Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. Consider the case of William Alden (MBA ’52), as reported in the Cape Cod Times (April 12, 2011). More than 50 years ago, Alden was working on an automated mail-flow system for the View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services

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