Perishability - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

the book was great because it would show such a major transformation in an industry and how we went about facing change, how we created a successful outcome even though if there was a list of who would perish under deregulation, we... View Details

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Stockdale, former vice presidential candidate, naval officer, and prisoner of war, said leaders must balance both realism and optimism in their messaging. In a POW camp, Stockdale said, it was the optimists who perished first—those who... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

to 9/11/01. More than three thousand people from eighty countries perish on a single day in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. On the heels of that horrific tragedy, this year's subsequent business headlines have been dominated... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

are perishable and you need to wait at home for them to be delivered. In that light, do you think there's a future for online grocery shopping? A: Home-delivered groceries? Never. Online communication, auto-replenishment services,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

broad sell-off in the shares of grocery retailers and suppliers. Behind the precipitous declines lay recognition that Amazon’s bold move into brick and mortar assets offered transformational opportunities. Amazon could gain expertise in View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

predicted, success and failure. Not an onion, certainly. Maybe an avocado: a fruit with a skin that seems tough but still allows for easy bruising by outside forces, with a certain amount of highly perishable reward below—depending on... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

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the perspective to consider how a founder should approach raising financing and how the organization should be structured so that it can deliver a product or service reliably. DIFFICULT DECISIONS addresses many of the perennial questions of entrepreneurship: “Should I... View Details

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