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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
elective, The Management of New Enterprises. This in turn spawned other such course offerings throughout the 1960s and ’70s in the MBA and Executive Education programs. Many students indeed were going on to become entrepreneurs as alumni.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
higher efficacy rate — 80 percent or more. Is 80 percent efficacy unusual for drugs currently on the market? Across all patients and diseases, drug efficacy averages 50 percent, so half the time they bring no clinical benefit. That’s not... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
infrastructure updates are happening so that we can provide the support and the risk management and the code enforcement, if you will, that is needed for the infrastructure piece. And so I think to climate-proof at scale, to me, it has to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has experienced a compound annual growth rate of over 19 percent, due in large part to strategies that have included redesigning and introducing new products, reexamining company management,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a single, simple portal and an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
United States had no plan for funding its huge debts. It had no stable currency, no sound credit system, no central bank, no reliable securities markets, and almost no corporations. By 1795, Hamilton's policies had corrected all of these deficiencies. The United States... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
you doing? Hey, are you still at the hotel?” And he goes, “Oh, no, I'm not at the hotel anymore.” And oh, my goodness, our hopes were deflated. We thought that, oh, he's just not made it. And then he said, “But I'm a manager at a moving... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
of two years in exchange for partial sponsorship of my degree. The hours were intense. I also had this amazing new baby at home, and I was still nursing. So I asked for permission during my first few months to travel on consulting... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
longest longitudinal study on happiness ever done. And although our wealth has tripled, although our safety has increased, murder rates at an all-time low, people can go further and faster, more educated, happiness has been flat. It's... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
providers also faced reductions in jobs and pay. Another piece of the puzzle was the Scranton taxpayer, with a proposed 3.8 percent millage rate increase in property taxes. Even so, the district would need to borrow $4.1 million to make... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score
$200-million, ten-year commitment to sponsor the Brazilian team, the world's soccer leader. Bronx Cheers If a principal challenge for pro sports is managing the high level of player salaries while keeping the onfield product affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons