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  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library

Since his appointment as executive director of Baker Library in 1996, Thomas J. Michalak has been closely involved in the ongoing effort to shepherd a venerable institution into the electronic business information age. Writer Nancy View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

New Releases

next project, in collaboration with Laura Nash of Harvard Divinity School, is a book on the role of institutional religion in helping businesspeople to integrate spirituality and work. by Nancy O. View Details
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

and pharmaceutical industries. But the differences between those pairs of sectors were just too great. So the second book will examine this question: Why were the Japanese chemical and pharmaceutical industries unable to enter the U.S. and European markets, at the very... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

herself, which is a very American thing to do. Bruce Llewellyn, an African-American entrepreneur of outstanding talent, also comes to mind. As a historian, my only advantage over other scholars in other disciplines is perspective. I have to wait until someone is no... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

club’s return to an in-person banquet following the pandemic, and featured a fireside chat during dinner with special guest Jorge O. Elorza, the 38th mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. “Mayor Elorza is a great speaker and very... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization

By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas
What does it cost to build a great society? More pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society? Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years ago, investments in America’s communities have spurred those questions. Today we face a society more unequal than... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Income; Residency; Poverty
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  • July 1992 (Revised January 1995)
  • Case

An Investment Linked to Commodity Futures

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Jay O. Light and Nancy Donohue
Describes a new investment which is linked to an index of commmodity futures prices. Explores how the index is constructed, how commodity futures (as opposed to other futures and spot prices) behave, and what the portfolio impacts of such an investment might be. View Details
Keywords: Commodity Market; Investment Management; Portfolio Management; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Futures and Commodity Futures
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  • July 1992 (Revised May 1996)
  • Background Note

Note on Commodity Futures

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Jay O. Light and Nancy Donohue
Describes how commodity futures work, what products and exchanges are available, and who the players in the commodity markets are. Also presents a careful discussion of the pricing of futures in commodity markets, focusing on cost of carry and risk premium approaches,... View Details
Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures
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  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club

led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Managing the Business of Life

would have done differently. When I look back at what I've accomplished, I see I've worked hard to get where I am, and I appreciate the rewards that have come in the form of a loving, healthy family and a satisfying career." —Nancy O.... View Details