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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank coffee, a once-innocuous beverage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
banker willing to stake her acquisition. “She laid out her vision so clearly that I could see it and understand it,” Paul Anderson of the National Australia Bank explained in Russo’s 2002 motivational biography, Meet Me at the Top! “It... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
over hundreds of years: scientifically, it's absolutely elegant." Above ground, the garden is a tranquil vision of rustling corn, nodding sunflowers, and whirring insects. Below ground, things are less idyllic. The site's previous life as... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
volunteers “have helped the city capitalize on the innovation sprouting from Silicon Valley, through specific initiatives such as designing the structure of the city’s startup incubator, developing innovative ways to incorporate View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
literature about how to go do that. And that was just going to prove to myself that the technology could work and was viable. DM: Turns out it was. I'm Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and this is the third and final episode of Clearing the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
cell phone and speakers to teach English to her class. During planned pauses, the instructor engaged students in exercises related to the lesson. “I was just blown away how this technology enables the education of an entire country, in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
dilemmas, especially in the age of AI and technological interventions; insight into groundbreaking medical advancements; and guidance for navigating the grief, confusion, and resilience that accompany this journey. Written with heart and... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
mock-ups—complete with a drive-thru model—the future vision plays out like this: You approach a McDonald’s, and when you are within 100 meters, the restaurant’s “geofencing” technology recognizes your phone... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500 scene—first growing eBay from a staff... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
started planning that school, now known as Year Up. Headquartered in Boston with sites in three other cities, Year Up’s mission is to help “disconnected youth” access real career opportunities through an intense year of training in professional and practical skills in... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
the Cicero Group in 2001, working out of his house with a few colleagues. “When I talk to young entrepreneurs today, they always ask about my business plan,” he notes. “I have to laugh. My business plan was a mortgage and a baby on the way.” Business plan or no... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
who have been in accidents. Our vehicles become an important factor in how they feel about themselves, so we pay attention not only to technology but to color and design." Invacare started out making wheelchairs in 1885. But its product... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
were hitting a wall. From our perspective, David was holding the reins too tightly and wasn’t sharing a concrete enough vision of where we were heading as an enterprise,” says van Bever. “I began to argue after the first couple of... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
and days when you feel like you are invincible. On those rough days, try to take some time to decompress and to get some space from the business. I find that leaving and unplugging from technology for a few hours usually does the trick."... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Oishi in 2000. “She had ideas to change the system, and her thinking was different,” he recalls. Oishi led Nomaguchi and two other doctors in brainstorming a picture of the ideal medical practice, one that incorporated the best of what was available and all that was... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
figure out the new market opportunity, and have the courage to jump and go after it. —Allison Campbell (MBA 2018) cofounder of Zubale; Alumni track finalist, 2019 Show Me the Money Entrepreneurship is about having a vision combined with a... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Kentucky, a set of structures so large they are typically measured in acres—900, all told—not square feet and have their own zip code. But big can be a downside for GE’s makers. Kevin Nolan, VP of technology at GE Appliances, offers the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
has attended more than one hundred dog shows across the country, converted an outdated mainframe computer system to a client server system, streamlined internal procedures, cut expenses, introduced DNA as part of the dog registration... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the way through our two later-stage vehicles. We are only three years old and so my role is not... View Details