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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
He calls the hood of a rusty Chevy truck his “conference area” and the passenger seat his “desk.” His part-time help is his fiancée, whom he first recruited to his 1,400-acre Achille, Oklahoma, ranch with the promise of fresh blackberries. Davis has no office phone,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
of industry such as Andrew Carnegie. "They were interesting stories of integrity that stayed with me," he says. After graduating, Appling spent several years at McKinsey & Company, then took a job at Seimens. In 2006, he began at Bright... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
self-service kiosk system that evaluates and buys back used cell phones and MP3 players from consumers for cash. Found currently in southern California, Kaplan expects this concept to roll out as well.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
in the hearts of consumers more quickly than camcorders, personal computers, or cell phones. In the Palm, Dubinsky and her colleagues created a sleek, portable tool that can be “synced” with a desktop computer to store information such as... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
can assure you that there are more comfy sabbaticals options. Whatever sabbatical you do, disconnect and get away from your environment—the more radical the change, the better. I didn't even have a cell View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
occasional Saturday soccer game with cell phone at the ready. But for Dick Simon (MBA '80) , his wife, and three children, last year quality time meant — among other memorable adventures — camping together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 May 2013
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Bill Bowes has been a force in the US venture capital industry for more than 50 years. As a founder of the Silicon Valley–based U.S. Venture Partners, he helped launch a stellar list of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
consequences of distribution. DR: There is no doubt that there is an overall gain. But the question is, who gains? Who loses? The concentrated interests affected negatively by free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and hips and repaired with laser surgery. Laptop computers, the Internet, and cell phones make the 24-hour workday a virtual reality. As we journey even deeper into middle age, will we decide to restructure... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
says about him and our present-day consumer society, to a story about the rise of the Negro middle class in the South in the 1960s, to a fascinating obituary of Jay Gould, the nineteenth-century speculator, to a wonderful piece on cell... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
display were successfully resolved, and the Sony eBook launched in the United States to extensive media coverage as the first mainstream offering in the e-reader market (the Kindle would not appear until November 2007). Over time, E Ink added new customers in View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use computers that rely on Wi-Fi.... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
unwilling to spare dollars for clean water filters. “I’d watch them on a cell phone and drinking water filled with bacteria and parasites,” he says. “For me, it was such a market failure.” The challenge in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
finding solutions to complex challenges. If companies decide it is in their best interest to include humanitarian activities in their core branding and human capital strategies, the same business skills that bring cell View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell... View Details