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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
caused by hidden munitions on board, may have been the reason why the passenger ship sank in a deadly eighteen minutes, causing 1,198 deaths. As odd as it may sound, he also happens to hold title to the wreck, having purchased it for $1... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
in the Philippines, Jaime “Jim” Ayala (MBA ’88) decided to put his considerable business experience to work improving the lives of some of his native country’s poorest citizens. Explaining his 2009 decision to leave Ayala Land, which had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
comes in a bit light or damaged. If we get an overshipment, we call right away and say, “You may not know this, but you sent us ten extra cases which you did not bill us for. We’ll gladly pay for them.” We don’t have buying committees, and we make View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
thing again today. Selling the company to U.S. Robotics enabled us to bring the PalmPilot to market." In 1997, 3Com purchased U.S. Robotics, and a year later Dubinsky and Hawkins decided to get back into the world of start-ups. They... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
off-balance sheet partnerships that purchased assets from Enron. And it failed to see and react to many “red flags” indicating that Enron’s economic performance and its public commitment to ethical values were deteriorating. To deter... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
stay patient. There is so much we want to and could do, but there are only so many hours in a day.” Why should companies consider purchasing art from ArtLifting? "Oftentimes, companies come to us when they're already in the market for... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
Hannah and directed by Steven Spielberg, is a riveting case analysis of business leadership in action through the lens of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham’s decision to publish the then classified Pentagon Papers—a View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. What’s the takeaway from the case? One surprise is that the method of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Tim Draper (MBA 1984) tells 30 students assembled poolside at Draper University, a seven-week entrepreneurship boot camp targeting 18- to 28-year-olds that he launched in 2012 after purchasing and renovating the vintage 1926 Benjamin... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
two more rounds of equity financing of $2.5 million each in 2005 and 2006. In August 2007, Linear took delivery of its first VLJ, an Eclipse 500 purchased on the secondary market. The brainchild of high-tech engineer and venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
danger zone for the foreseeable future. How would a U.S. invasion of Iraq influence your investment advice? Every decision we make for clients today takes that into account as a what-if scenario, but there's no formula that can predict... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
sustainable use of resources. Wal-Mart, for example, just committed to buy seafood only from MSC-certified fisheries. This decision has rocked the industry because Wal-Mart is the second-largest buyer of fish in the United States. We’re... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
at IBM? What can be done to maximize your group's productivity? What should IBM be doing to maximize the pursuit of business opportunities, based on the purchasing decisions of the customers you deal with?... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
immortality... LARGER THAN LIFE: Hamilton (left) and Gallatin are the only two treasury secretaries to be honored with statues at the US Treasury Building in Washington, DC. After Hamilton left Washington's headquarters, his moment of true glory came in the fall of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example, used her loan to View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
bags and bags of dirt up six flights of stairs, Reade soon created an urban sanctuary, complete with flowers, vegetables, and an automatic sprinkler system. Longing for more, she began looking for a few acres to purchase outside the city.... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
million students consume more than $1 billion worth of food annually. “There are 371 colleges and universities here, so 371 food service directors are making decisions about where and how the food for a million students is being View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder Steve Schwarzman (MBA 1972). In 1989, a few years after Blackstone's start, Schwarzman made the unfortunate decision to purchase steel company Edgcomb and was called on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inappropriate centralized and bureaucratic organizational design on the target firm. Management was unable to make critical decisions without multiple approvals. "As a result, the organization lost its vitality, performance began to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry