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01 Oct 1999
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Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

our customer base with traditional marketing cuts, you don't come up with a traditional demographic distribution. The thing that our customers have in common is an attitude: they are confident people who... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

did it” winemaker stories each finish with original family recipes that pair well with their wines. More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is... View Details

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

organization—taps into the talents common among those on the autism spectrum, which include attention to detail, highly focused concentration, perseverance with repetitive... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift

Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its board or in its C-suite, and its... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

always try to bring my financial common sense to bear on it. The art of theoretical model-building is to make good abstractions that also capture the essence of View Details

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

build this muscle and it becomes less dirty feeling or awkward. EB: It's beautifully said. As a first-time book author, I have occasionally reflected on why I chose to write a book. Of course it was for two awesome co-authors, but part of View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.

the company’s global brand. Petersen, who joined the company in 2004 as head of marketing, says he’s never seen another business open its meetings with meditation, or offer free yoga classes to all its... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

avoid is a mindset my dad affectionately calls ‘Dumb F— Farmer Syndrome.’ I’m looking for founders who are humble and excited to learn about what farmers need, instead of the type who assume farmers are stupid or overly risk-averse, which... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

exercises that have them realize this will be me. I can’t just shrug it off as a, “No, I’m not going to be susceptible to homophily.” There’s a magnetic pull towards equality, founding teams, the most common... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

School's technology initiative as having a strong positive effect on his classroom method, but he cites common frustrations caused by existing technological limitations. "Sometimes the students can't log on... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

successfully balance the needs of their egos with the collective needs of their organizations, they can see increased profits and a workforce unified around a common goal.... View Details

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

isolated. Ascending to ubiquity from the car-obsessed America of the late 1950s, McDonald’s became a common language and a cultural export—an affordable and dependable escape.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

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