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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
competition for nearly one hundred years," Burke recalls. "Whenever we cared for the customer in a profound-and spiritual-way, profits were never a problem." The Tylenol crisis could have been a death blow to the brand and, potentially,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
chain YogaWorks went public in August, valued at about $40 million; and Wanderlust’s yoga-focused festivals have attracted major crowds and major sponsors. But the bigger the business of yoga gets, the further away it moves from its roots. It poses the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
that had staked their reputations on academic superiority — faced a full-blown crisis of identity and purpose. It was no longer possible for business schools to tout a mission of educating managers according to the canons of postwar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
fifth factor involves the question of social mores. Through this last economic crisis we’ve come to at least pause and question the values that have animated business over the last two decades. I don’t know how that all will shake out.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
anti-austerity party won the next election, but Samaras, who continues to represent the district of Messinia in Parliament, doesn't regret his stance during the crisis nor does he regret launching Political Spring, a party he started in... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
destroying individuals and families. In recent years, as the opioid crisis swept the country, the organization shifted to a broader focus, re-branded as the Georgia Prevention Project. Now Langford wants to stem the spread of opioids with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren. What's behind the current crisis in U.S. financial markets? Wall... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka intensify, so does Maya’s disillusionment, but contact with a mysterious mentor whose wisdom she once ignored holds the key to her future. Fans of Paolo Coelho, Amy Tan, Vaddey Ratner, and Khaled Hosseini... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
risk-taking, project strategizing, resourcing, planning, interpersonal-conflict resolution, and crisis management. Our Common Ground: Insights from Four Years of Listening to American Voters By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) RealClear Publishing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
on, I got a job fixing rotary compressors in refrigerators. DM: Mm-hmm [affirmative]. JI: I was leading, kind of, 7,000 people. I was 32 years old. It was the biggest product recall in the history of GE. So it was a crisis every day. And... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
growth preventing it from achieving critical mass. Ironically, it was the financial crisis of 2008 that gave the city’s fintech scene the jolt it needed to reach the next level. Suddenly, the big banks had much less money to throw at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Publishing The 2008 financial crisis triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system, which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer-funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system withstood the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South cleavage brought about by the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
staring at and studying the reality before your eyes. So in class, when a marketing topic came up, Marshall would ask, “Did you look at the fish?” OPM 38. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” PMD 49. The two catch-phrases for our class as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
have to establish ethical standards and model the behavior they want reflected in the organization. Authentic leadership is critical in today's culture in the post-financial crisis world. COURTNEY LEIMKUHLER Courtney Leimkuhler (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
just as the School celebrated its 100th birthday, affect your aspirations? The financial crisis was a sober moment for the School. It made us reflect more deeply during our centennial, not only on the areas where we had made progress and... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
then. A lot of this happened simultaneous to the filming of Scarface, which was looked at as an affront to Miami. Miami had a huge case of post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, with the race riots and the cocaine explosion and the Mariel refugee View Details