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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to intransigence and denial. Once-incipient threats are now full-blown, and combined with newly emerging dangers, options and solutions have narrowed. For the contemporary reader, there is between the lines of Energy Future a haunting subtext: Is there still View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
also helped lengthen and restore his tight, overworked muscles, and it became part of his workout regimen. During his time at YogaWorks, he is credited with boosting the company’s market position and launching its online platform, as well... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
reason why that day. Morrell: How much of these lessons did you process in real time or in the near term, and how much of it came after some space and time for reflection?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
Will the real Robert Kinloch Massie (DBA '89) please stand up? Priest. Politician. University lecturer. Medical marvel. Social activist. Prize-winning historian. Environmentalist. Executive. While Bob Massie is justified in rising to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own successful View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
diving in. If we can educate them about it and make it a known and also be able to show them that these challenges that people typically face, we have real solutions to it. We have ways in which you’re going to be able to tackle this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
investment opportunity that traditional VCs are simply overlooking. In this special episode of Skydeck, recorded live at Fall Reunions, Dodi speaks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about the challenges that female founders still face—and what View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
upon them far more than we've ever thought before. And I hope that we do recognize how important they are. The system is still working. And it's thanks to the working class.” Dan Morrell: Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) is the author of several books with her husband, New... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
cool head and be flexible while maintaining a real sense of urgency," Pollo Tropical's Castaldo remarks, adding, "The idea of a ‘typical day' is not typical in our business." He says he tries to limit office work and meetings to three... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Nohria reflected on his time leading the School and how students and faculty mobilized to respond to the pandemic. After all that the world has faced in 2020, it’s easy to forget that you assumed the deanship in the aftermath of an... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
of family members, taking care of bills, managing personal relationships, balancing work-life with family. You've got a lot of players who are married, that have children. And spend a lot of time away from their children, and oftentimes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
Spangler Center was conceived to give a new heart to the Business School, which had been atomized over time by many buildings and an increasing number of students living off campus.... From the day it opened, students adopted Spangler as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
There are few cultural attractions; Monrovia has only one movie theater, and it’s overrun by cats. But the beach is very nice. Anyway, I’m always working. I don’t have much time for diversion. COMTE: Close to Miami, a piece of France in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
would be mostly men and a few women." She was right. Sherwood was one of eight women out of a class of 668 to be admitted for the first time to the two-year MBA Program, a fact that didn't sink in until the women saw one another amid a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
encouraged young people at that age to do something out of their comfort zone, and in the real world, as a part of their identity formation. Yet, in America, we’ve been in such a hurry to just get kids to and through college, and across... View Details