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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
Robots, the local basketball team. The Ibaraki Robots have now, in five years, grown its revenues eight times, grown attendance five times, and been promoted to a top category league just like the NBA in the US . The second thing we did was address central Mito, where... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
administration at Cornell and then joined Loews in the marketing department of one of its subsidiaries. When Loews acquired the Bulova Watch Company in 1979, Tisch visited the company to assess it. “The place is a disaster,” he told his... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
one hundred grocery and department stores. Kohl focused on philanthropic activities after selling the business in 1979 and purchased the NBA Milwaukee Bucks in 1985. Elected to the Senate seat vacated by William Proxmire (MBA '40) in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak’s no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza’s (see page 42) merchandise, payment plans, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
management is particularly relevant in a global business,” she adds. “I knew every single department store owner in every part of the world we did business in. I always took a special gift from Mrs. Lauder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
as: Why are Indians getting more religious but also more consumption-driven? How did a Chennai-based department store start the New Year’s sale phenomenon? Are Muslims more open-minded shoppers? Why do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
native of Wayland, Massachusetts, Reade never thought much about gardening as a kid. After earning her MBA and living in New York City for a few years, however, she went looking for geraniums for her window boxes. At the garden store in... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
But they didn’t turn them off, and because that data had been stored in the memory of the computer—not necessarily on it—it was on the hard drives, but wiped. Seeing their memory, hot and live, the malware finds it and says, “Oh, this... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
different direction. This was certainly true of Westmoreland in the late 1930s and again in the late 1950s. But in the late 1950s they were also hobbled by having tied themselves narrowly to a specific market that was moving on. 1959 was the year View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the five tenets of the mission at the Smithsonian's NMNH is to be a catalyst for the use of object-based science education in the K-12 school system. With a large education department that relies on close to four hundred volunteer... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
sometimes bends the truth to its advantage. Ayr: If you just ask somebody a question about food, and what their perception is and then the reality of the answer. And in our industry that gap is just so large and it’s deliberate, it’s created that way. You go to buy... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
magazine added that “the U.S. just might be the world’s biggest washing machine for dirty money.” Baker concurs, noting that the U.S. Treasury Department asserts that virtually 100 percent of dirty money presented for deposit in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
multiuse retail/coworking/residential spaces. Marietta also tirelessly coaches local business owners and entrepreneurs, advising the owner of a crafts store in downtown Harlan on payroll management one day and helping a local high school... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
retail store allow her to feed her family, gain equity, and send her children to school. (Carielle Doe/Mercy Corps) McKenna had followed the story as it unfolded in the news. She had long admired the work of Mercy Corps, especially during... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Organizations." Coote noted that trends such as intense competition, faster cycle times, slimmer margins, and new business models have forced widespread company restructurings - changes that corporate information technology (IT) View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice