artisans - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

In 2001, Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005) went to India to help its people emerge from the devastating Gujarat earthquake. As she worked with artisans to reach new crafts markets, she knew she had found a perfect way to use her business skills... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall

local artisans and the timber trade without degrading the land. Are there similarities between your work in Costa Rica and the Massachusetts Audubon project you tackled after returning to Boston? The plan in Boston was a high-profile,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

11 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

educated, and provided with artisan skills. Doing well by doing good is important to us and we support a good cause through our supply chain." What's been the best and most challenging part of building the business? "The best part of the... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf

Nike) to illustrate the concept. Grand Ambition by G. Bruce Knecht (MBA 1986) (Simon & Schuster) Knecht tells the story of the travails of Doug Von Allmen, an investor who commissioned a 187-foot, $40 million yacht, and of the artisans... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

more than $1 million in grants to renovate the aging West Wind dormitory, provide technical assistance to local farmers, and establish a commercial kitchen that local growers can use to make value-added agricultural products; turned the gift shop into a showroom for... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Jun 2000
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Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette

decorators and artisans who have worked on his houses must have a great deal of discipline. From painstakingly stripping layers of paint to uncover a wall's original 19th-century hue, to removing years of grime from neglected crystal... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture

the Miami Culinary Institute. He sits on the board of Northeast Organic Farming Association in New Jersey, which incubates artisanal food production businesses. And he indulges the would-have-been academic in him by regularly attending... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

you do live and die by your taste.” With even the best actors, script, director, and production values in place, generally most movies don’t break even. According to Dominic Ianno (MBA 1995), a former studio executive at Artisan... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

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