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- 01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly? Why did Wall Street and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
as chairman of Millennium Promise (MP), he helps lead an organization with the vision of ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2025. Despite this shift, Walker sees more similarities than differences between his careers in the private and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
“Back then, the valley was still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after earning his MBA and serving in the Air Force. “We’d tell them... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
focuses on the benefits of following Jesus. We seek Jesus to heal our wounds, cure our sicknesses, and strengthen our marriages. We want Jesus to be our therapist and our life coach. Indeed, Jesus promises that we are blessed when we... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
and we were all some version of 20- to 30-something single geeks. And we were spending a lot of time together at work. One of the engineers said hey wouldn’t it be great if on Friday afternoons we went out and picked a different bar and grabbed a drink and View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
“Given that a nonprofit has fewer resources, it requires a start-up mentality.” That challenge, along with Habitat’s ongoing growth and evolution as an organization, promise to keep Song engaged for the long haul. “I’ve been blown away by... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
right away. He was with E Ink for 12 years, six as CEO, guiding it through multiple near failures to runaway success. The company sold in 2009 for $215 million. Wilcox then followed through on a fatherly promise to his wife—and former... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
most promising of the three existing verticals and align their resources on one major target. 2. Dig deeper. The team could stay focused on the three existing verticals and delve deeper into each one, investing in vertical-specific... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that Amazon was, in fact, View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
assets—a model that might well hold promise for other parts of rural and postindustrial America that are struggling to reinvent themselves. “I’m here to create jobs and economic opportunity,” Marietta says. “Not just talk about it, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
jumping in for an $81 million stake last December); in March, Verizon announced it will partner with the duo that brought you Shrek and Cheerleaders New Jersey to launch an online video service that promises more than 200 hours of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
signed the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge, promising half of their money to philanthropic causes, have a net worth of around $600 billion. The Forbes listing of the richest 400 Americans alone totaled just over $2 trillion in 2013. “The... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
on the board to illustrate human interactions. Hunt Greene's high bet wasn't looking too promising until Lawrence, bewildered by Hunt's off-the-wall comments, offered him the chalk to illustrate his theory. Much to the amusement of the... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is now director of early childhood... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
around their services and their outstanding customer experience. And two, they must live up to their promise of being extremely simple to use and providing great service. If they do this, they can capture customers before they have had a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tongish, posted his profile to a now-defunct website that promised online dating with a twist: Women recommended their male friends to other women. Kushner, who had also recommended a friend of hers on the site, spotted Deckinger’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
“port city” will rise here, featuring office space, housing, and retail—essentially, an independent, international financial center with a direct link to Colombo’s central business district. Fernando mentions additional investments in the country’s south as a sign of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
1968) Forefront Books As the son of Max Feldman, the self-proclaimed “sodbuster from Omaha” and brilliant founder of the successful fashion shoe store chain Fratelli Massimo, Josh Feldman has always known his destiny, working alongside his father and one day succeeding... View Details