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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
diversity of businesses and products that were virtually unimaginable before the advent of full-service financial institutions. Named president of the firm in 1984 and chairman in 1991, Fisher is widely recognized for his role in both... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
trucking-tech company, has a simple goal: Get goods where they need to go as efficiently as possible with a limited labor force. For TuSimple, that means a focus not on the cities themselves, but rather on the long stretches of highway... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
share that enthusiasm with a group that is also unlikely to fit the traditional insurance mold: people in their 20s, 30s, and even 40s. Terry, who worked in product management at Liberty Mutual for a dozen years, observes that life used... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
retail stores sell their products online. Rather than rely on outside investors, Mikitani funded Rakuten with his own money, taking a significant personal risk, and recruited his wife, Haruko (an IBJ colleague), to run the back office. In... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
very active in boosting the idea. We couldn’t have picked a better time to launch.” After more than a year of studying production practices and cross-country travels to acquire state-of-the-art equipment, the Turners began producing syrup... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
a beginning, a middle, and a finish. Their ready-to-drink cocktails are naturally low in sugar and calories (less than 2 grams and 35 calories). They are bottled and labeled with a sense of sophistication that would feel right at home on any elegant bar cart. With its... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
product and pay myself a salary. But it didn't work out that way. I went out and pitched with just a deck and some user research, and I got no's from everyone. So I pitched 10 investors, all of them said no. Actually, one of them said... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000 in its U.S. operations by 2008. And in another telling numbers game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will produce 9.06 million cars worldwide this year, while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
FLOREZ: Back to his roots. Before term limits force him out of office, California State Senate majority leader Dean Florez (MBA ’93) has one final bill he wants to get through the legislature: extending overtime benefits to hundreds of thousands of California... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
So I would think the Fed might adjust the timing depending on how strong the economy is in the next several months. Many commentators in the media seem to think that by lowering interest rates, the Fed will necessarily cause inflation. I think that if low-cost foreign... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
long careers, these legendary faculty members not only helped shape the School and personify it to generations of students and alumni, they were also eyewitnesses to its evolution. When they began their careers, after World War II and at about the midpoint of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
& Media 4% Investment Management 4% Health Care 3% Consumer Products 3% Other Services 12% Other Manufacturing 3% Employment by Company Size (number of employees)** 10,001 22% * 883 students graduated in the Class of 1997, with 607 in the... View Details