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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
much in the employer’s interest to also be there for them. I ask you, does it maximize profit to treat customers well by selling them products that represent good value for the money, or is it best to charge them as much as you can while... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
understanding of each other’s challenges and goals. That idea became the Bee Understanding Project, which included producing a documentary short film that won a Telly Award. A Career Full of Challenges If CollaborateUp’s work sounds... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
he continues. “This company’s service allows e-mail messages to be sent from anywhere in the world to a post office near the addressee’s home, printed out as a letter, stuffed in an envelope, and delivered in just a few days. They’re even View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
different economies that you're selling into," he continues. "For example, no one was able to foresee the recession in Asia. On the supply side, oil production has a very long lead time, particularly the big fields." Stobaugh also notes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Hsieh, and Lyft founder John Zimmer, centers around a team-based curriculum. To date, DU has nearly 500 alumni from 50 countries, with more than 250 startups created, including a medical device company, an apartment listings app, and an exchange for users to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
to realize I had made a complete and utter mess by picking the views of one partner over another. I just picked the wrong partner, and I realized why I did. But I didn't see the logic all the way through of what the downside was. We put some more money in, we almost... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the business has changed a lot in a short period of time. What are some of the challenges that come... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
office in China to manage sales and marketing. Our revenues have increased by more than 44 percent in the past year. So operationally, the business has changed a lot in a short period of time. What are some of the challenges that come... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
up the next morning and asked, ‘What can we do to help?’ This is a wartime environment, and businesses need to step forward however they can,” said Harl. Originally planning to make and sell units at cost, a shield producer in Maine... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
Editor Julia Hanna talks to Wilson about thinking beyond standard economic models, what collaboration looks like to him, and the work that has fundamentally changed the way governments and corporations buy and sell essential goods and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
right, it's e-mails. You're getting e-mails from lots of different places trying to sell you stuff that you probably don't need, frankly. So unsubscribe. And then instead, if you really are—you know, if you're a person who—you are on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
audiences to the theater than selling toys and other consumer product tie-ins, which is a significant revenue stream for studios. At Roadside Attractions, Eric d’Arbeloff (MBA 1993) has found a niche as a distributor of independent films... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime opportunity for applicants to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
about," he notes. A proud father of three, Cook now serves as Intuit's chairman of the executive committee of the board, having handed over the role of CEO in 1994 "to someone who is actually good at it," he says with a laugh. First job View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
A seasoned media executive, Sarah Harden (MBA 1999) was serving as interim CEO of the media company Hello Sunshine when she was brought up short by an early conversation with company founder Reese Witherspoon. “Reese told me that before... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
for compact discs, with section mates Bill Heye and Paresh Shah. “We were the CD tower guys. We produced thousands of them, selling the first ones for $199 at City Schemes and Brookstone. Then everyone got in the game, and retail pricing... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken