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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
offices and 14,000 associates. In the St. Petersburg area, the James name can be found on the Tampa football stadium in addition to numerous educational, health-care, and arts institutions. Thai Lee, MBA 1985 President and CEO, SHI... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
he’d reached at the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench; 8,376 meters—now he had surpassed the deepest point he’d ever taken the Limiting Factor, on an earlier descent to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. His board was green—all View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
the practice known as “résumé whitening,” are more likely to get through a recruiting process than those whose names clearly identify them as a racial minority. Ananth Kasturiraman (MBA 2017) says that employers are missing out on a rich... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
weapon called life experience. Just Change: How to Collaborate for Lasting Impact by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson (MBA 2005) (Advantage Media Group) Equal access to opportunities for all citizens is the key to a sustainable national economy. To address View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others
explains Harvey. "He believed in both the free-enterprise system and the use of wealth to provide opportunity for others. When I joined the Enterprise Foundation in 1984, Jim told me, 'Now you're an investment banker for the poor, not the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
infrastructure here that you don’t find abroad,” explains Domain general partner Brian Dovey (MBA 1967). “Also, you have very little ability for liquidity, namely IPOs and acquisitions, in Europe or Asia.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
me write a book about the creation of his 187-foot, $40 million yacht. Lady Linda would be extraordinary: Her interior walls would be made from rare species of burl wood, the floors paved with onyx, and the furniture custom made. The air-conditioning View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
resolve the many challenges facing today’s private and public sector organizations. They offer insights into specific risk domains that are shaping our world, including terrorism, cyber risk, climate change, and economic resource... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual revenue collections totaling some $1.5 trillion. The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
world, the AMP program underscores the necessity of a global perspective and an understanding of different cultures and markets." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "The free market is the best system for allocating resources, but never forget... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
decades, we have seen a distinct transformation of the C-suite—a term denoting the most important senior executives in an organization—characterized by the proliferation of new Chief X Officer (CXO) roles, in which X stands for a specific View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
have more than 80 years of experience getting accurate alumni names and contact details, explaining LEFAs, doling out passwords, and recording and verifying deaths. Val, the Records Office’s necrologist since 1979, started at the office... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
with the new brand Clove Dental. The nascent chain took its name from a spice whose analgesic properties have made it a traditional Indian folk remedy for a toothache. The growth plan relied on clustering, requiring at least 15 locations... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz says, “I was still young and single, and I had a business problem I was passionate about. For the first couple of years I worked out of my own checkbook and slept on a lot of friends’ couches.” Kiva Systems is View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne