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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Campaign Success Continues
funds to support fellowships, technology-equipped classrooms, and the renovation of Baker Library, are already at work transforming the campus. The campaign runs through December 2005 and Campaign Chair C.D. (“Dick”) Spangler Jr. (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Stiletto Science
Amalfi brand. “I’ve run a rocket company, I’ve built transatlantic fiber cable,” said Hughes. “But if I go to a cocktail party and say, ‘Oh, I’m a CEO of a rocket company,’ after all the rocket scientist jokes are done, there’s not much... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
In the Running?
will eventually run for governor again, despite two previously unsuccessful bids. But Garamendi, a Golden State native who grew up on a ranch (and owns one today), played football at Cal, and served in the Peace Corps, says he’s focused... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
GILER: A better way, through wireless. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe/Landov Nothing seems to hold back the tech revolution — nothing except all those batteries, wires, cables, and other impedimenta that are always running out of power,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Stanford Business School. Johnson’s father, also called Pitch, was a track coach who participated in the 1924 Olympic Games as a high hurdler and passed a love of running down to his namesake. The family moved to Palo Alto when Pitch was... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Hayes teaches in and runs the Executive Education offering Strategic Finance for Smaller Businesses, serves on several committees, and is an advisor to the Dean. He also teaches in and runs the two-week... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
to overflowing with goodwill. That's because running the show is Pastor Charles Coverdale, a big man with a big heart, a big laugh, and a big dream. Known fondly as "the hugging preacher" because of his own easy, bearlike grip and his... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
live, study, and work in 38 countries in our region. It’s the first time we’ve had such an overseas study program run out of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.” Group effort: The innovationXchange, an international advisory... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Trusty Board
Field's board, worked with McCarter on numerous civic projects when McCarter was at Booz-Allen and later recruited him to run the Field. Similarly, the Smithsonian's Bob Fri joined the natural history museum at the request of board... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
before moving to GE Medical Systems, where he was named CEO in 1997. Reflecting on his years at GE, Immelt recalls many moments of intense, even painful, learning. “In 1989, I was running the appliance service business in the midst of a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
local farmers. Mission: Chaku’s sourcing model helps Ghanian farmers mitigate crop loss, which can run as high as 40 percent because of processing and exporting challenges. Okrah lived close to those farmers in Kumasi, an agrarian region... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
children, especially girls, by providing free quality education through a network of village schools. The program also involves partnerships with state governments in India to adopt and run government-managed schools. Currently, 254 are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Uncorked
“they needed a token broad” — with Scott Paper Company, where, among other things, she made an advertising breakthrough: getting an ad for sanitary napkins on television for the first time. Recalled McClelland, “We couldn’t run it before... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Against All Odds
(February 27, 2003) explained, “Mr. Bertarelli runs his America’s Cup team like a small global company, with over one hundred team members, drawn from fifteen countries, and eight specialist units covering everything from boat design and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
How Much is Fair?
Tobias Photo courtesy of Harcourt Author and columnist Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) discussed executive pay and American attitudes about compensation in an article in Parade magazine (March 2, 2003), for which he is personal finance editor. Asking how much someone should... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Weaving Success in India
to join the family business—was named a vice chairman in 2016. She is leading efforts to double the company’s number of stores and to grow its e-commerce offerings. Her younger brother, also a vice chairman, runs Nalli’s new jewelry... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
really want to learn and giving them access to high-quality education. I realized that I felt very motivated to make sure that was something that was possible. “I now have launched and am running a new education impact-venture-investing... View Details