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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
looks on the back of the garments right down to the appearance of the hangtags. Having that level of access to the product inspires us as much as anything else. What management issue do you think about most in your job? The culture of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
accelerates recovery rates to such an extent that it creates a treadmill situation—we have to run very hard just to stay even with existing production levels." Information technology is also used to sift through geological data in the View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
machine. That gave him the freedom to pick and choose his cabinet from the private sector and other political parties and tune its focus to performance, instead of political ideology. The public sector is already running more like the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including The Nature Conservancy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Family Health International. The remaining participants represented a variety of disciplines - sociology, business, and public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
are markets where there is not necessarily intrinsic value to the products themselves.” “These are markets where there is not necessarily intrinsic value to the products themselves.” With that kind of attention, some market safeguards can kick in. Big art galleries... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
turning honest mistakes into ethical failures. But when people are acting as fiduciaries or when their decisions affect the lives and well-being of millions of people around the globe, reckless judgment becomes a matter of public concern... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate.” The Brand IDEA: Managing Nonprofit Brands with Integrity, Democracy, and Affinity by Nathalie Laidler-Kylander and Julia Shepard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small businesses choose... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and health-care delivery. Photo... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
Before he launched Harley-Davidson in India, Anoop Prakash (MBA 2001) held business development roles in technology and was a consultant at McKinsey. He also had experience in the public sector and in the US Marine Corps. But he hadn’t... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
African-Americans, to help them to manage their money,” she recalls. “These were people like Oprah— people who are on the Forbes list of wealthiest African-Americans. “I got to know some of them, and at the time we did this there were a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a number of firms have been unable to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons