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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
This is truly a revolution." Nolan underlined the advantage that new-economy companies have over their incumbent competitors, using drugstore.com as an example. Taking only a year to build, drugstore.com has become the fastest-growing company to reach $1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared midway through the event that "the most important conversation in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
coffee economics. Coffee cherries have to be washed near where they are grown, ideally within 24 hours of being harvested, but most of their value is generated close to where they are brewed and consumed.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
Membership on a corporate or advisory board seems like a natural fit for MBAs with solid managerial skills and career experience. But according to the experts, unless you are a prominent CEO, finding a seat at the boardroom table today... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
the effort was launched in less than 24 hours and has already matched 24,000 volunteers with more than 200 parties looking for help and matched 16,000 earthquake victims searching for a job with more than... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
finance, Goldman's time has come. "I had one primary career goal: to become a CFO early on and eventually do it as well as or better than anyone else," he says, seated at company headquarters in Redwood City, California. "A lot of people have gotten burned out by the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
fast-food joints proliferate. Globalization and downsizing affected blue- and white-collar workers alike. “Layoff” used to mean “temporary unemployment”; now it meant “loss of job.” David McNew/Getty Images If we worked only four hours a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Altimeter off the ground, serving as CFO from 2008 to 2011. "As the company grew, other people were able to fill in, and I could spend more time with Zetta Research," he says. "I still contribute unofficially to ongoing strategy and direction. It's not View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use the center by the View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
platform that screens temporary employees and places them where they would fit best, within 24 hours. In Latin America, 5 billion days of work are lost annually due to turnover and absenteeism. At the same... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
A FEEL-GOOD HIGH: Founder Sarah Endline with sweetriot’s tiny treats. As a girl in Auburn, Michigan, a small town two hours north of Detroit, Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) grew up with a clear understanding of the link between crops in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
was 24 and an extremely reckless person, especially when it came to driving. Skydiving became a way to channel that recklessness into a much more structured and regulated sport. I’m one of the few people who didn’t start their skydiving... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
In many ways, John Davis is a typical businessman. He works long hours, keeps excellent records, and focuses on using resources wisely. He often brings work home, and his trade is ruled by the laws of supply and demand. But Davis, fit and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
members Carliss Baldwin, Carl Kester, Michael Porter, and Howard Stevenson.) Interviews with some of the MBA alumni currently enrolled in or recently graduated from the Doctoral Programs underscore that observation. But first, you have to get in. Last year, 935... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
U.S. economy, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to energize you and give you a sense of accomplishment.” Jana Kirlin Brownell From a Historic Manufacturing City, a Family Company Brings USA Lighting to the... View Details