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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
a day to purchase goods and services (such as magazine subscriptions) advertised on Time Warner Inc.'s World Wide Web site, for example. The software leads customers through a series of screens and procedures that ends with them providing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
stark symbol of America’s forgotten poor, tonight it is lit with the iconic symbol of Mercedes-Benz, which purchased the stadium’s naming rights in 2011. Asked how the orchestra has been important for the city’s renewal, Prieto becomes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
enterprise. In some cases, to accommodate the sheer grandeur of their vision, other entrepreneurs shaped new business and organizational models. Consider the role of Roy L. Ash (MBA 6/'47) in the emergence of the modern American conglomerate. In 1953, Ash and Charles... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
identity was, to the next stage. For a time, it seemed that this model would involve the reuniting of beauty and health. The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies purchased some of the most iconic brands of cosmetics and fragrances.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
on supply and demand than they do on crises in the Gulf. Even if we solved the immediate crisis in Iraq, then what? Terrorism is a global issue that will take years to address. In the investment world, I think an invasion would further fuel the high level of volatility... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
buying online. But even in the face of this—and what he sees as oppressive taxation and constraining bureaucracy—Beisert says the opportunity here is vast. In the United States, online purchases make up over 20 percent of the fashion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
purchasing costs of the spices by as much as 30 percent, savings it passes on to consumers. The Seeds of Agribusiness In the 1950s, agricultural economics professor Ray Goldberg went to his dean at Harvard Business School to pitch a new... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
information systems tend to mirror the traditional, functionally oriented organizations that they are supposed to help transform. While purchasing the right technology is part of the answer, Coote declared, "There has to be something... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
social, emotional job to be done. And the mix of functional, social, and emotional elements-- that mix changes by the job. But once we understand the job, then I need to ask the next question, which is-- all right, so if that's the job, what are all of the experiences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
bags and bags of dirt up six flights of stairs, Reade soon created an urban sanctuary, complete with flowers, vegetables, and an automatic sprinkler system. Longing for more, she began looking for a few acres to purchase outside the city.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
are used only once or twice in a person’s lifetime—a far different business opportunity than the one presented by drugs that treat chronic diseases. In addition, governments are the major purchaser of many vaccinations, effectively... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
capital.” Cummings made another purchase about the same time that he and his partners bought the Fisher Building. Comparatively, it was a small investment—just $80,000—but it is in some ways a riskier one. Cummings wants to show me the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
unnoticed. As CEO of Impromptu Gourmet, a start-up approaching its one-year anniversary, Max Polaner (MBA '97) knew that his company could not afford a huge donation, but he decided to give all proceeds for a month from dessert purchases... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
moving springs are envy, greed, uncharitableness, or disappointed ambition.” Libel suits were a more serious threat. The first, filed in 1851, claimed that two Ohio business partners were prevented from purchasing goods in New York... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
the same time, housing of all kinds - for buyers and renters - has become more expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being purchased... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
bust of founder Jamsetji Tata presides over meetings of the Tata Group, which traces its beginnings to 1868. Economic reforms also have made it possible for firms to grow by acquiring foreign entities. Godrej Industries, for example, recently View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna