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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
industry, most recently as CEO of the Swiss/Chilean company Aport SA. Airlines have since abandoned all aspirations of luxury to focus on reducing operational expenses. It’s the reason we’re seeing a bumper crop of low-cost carriers,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
"During the first five years our performance was strong but somewhat volatile," says Kingdon. "We were just a tiny firm and didn't have the analytical backup and the infrastructure we have now. "By 1988, he decided to abandon the risky... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
to the ideal of entrepreneurship itself rather than to a single business model or product. That flexibility helps them react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and business models that aren’t working. 2. Look for problems to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
and its $300,000 in cash — that proved of little interest to the bridge, given the situation. Then came the order to abandon ship. A destroyer had maneuvered alongside to evacuate our wounded first, and then our pilots. One of the senior... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
now serves as president of the automaker’s Americas division. In a bold move for the time, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) abandoned his Wall Street career in the early 1990s and headed to China, where he built a major auto parts manufacturing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Digital abandoned plans to spin off the company, Lang resigned. "My vision was to take AltaVista public," she explains. "I don't believe in staying in a job where you can't be passionate about the results." Lang has spent the past year... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
by excesses in diet and lifestyle.” Lessons also emerged from “failure.” After weeks of training for a climb to the top of Papua New Guinea’s 14,800-foot Mount Wilhelm, Ehrenberg abandoned her quest within sight of the summit to care for... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
volunteered in high school, painting abandoned houses as part of Operation Brush Up, in Flint, Michigan. At the University of Michigan, she launched several service organizations, including the university’s first web-based program that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
weeks later, the team abruptly announced it would abandon its controversial name and logo. The decision was so sudden, in fact, that the organization offered only a temporary replacement. It would be known, in the interim, as the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
abandonment - refusing to repair a broken product. "People feel most satisfied with their purchases when they can put the paradoxes of technology in relative balance in their lives," says Fournier. Fournier hopes this research will prompt... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
other manufacturers have abandoned it to seek cheaper labor elsewhere. Since corporations are the center of wealth and power in this country, they are the only ones that can make a difference in addressing poverty and unemployment."... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
school buildings but abandoned because of the declining farming population.” In Shibayama’s mind, this is an ideal solution in which art can help society at large. View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
area in 1989 so his children could attend the prestigious Cranbrook schools in the city’s northern suburbs, which his wife, Julie, had also attended. READ MORE John Rhea on why Detroit, with tens of thousands of abandoned homes, needs... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
underestimates the scale of the problem because those are only the ones we know about,” Savova says. The situation will be exacerbated by job losses associated with the COVID crisis this year, leading to more than 20 million abandoned... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a village one day when he found an abandoned baby on the road.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
abandoned state hospital site in the city's Mattapan neighborhood. I became involved in what were for me new aspects of conservation, education, and state and local politics. Massachusetts is a world away from Central America, but the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
galvanized wire used to make lobster traps and fencing. The coating comes in a variety of colors. Photo courtesy Riverdale Mills That philosophy has been a guiding tenet at Riverdale from Day One. While rehabbing the abandoned mill he... View Details