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- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
the fault lies less with the buyer that's unwilling to purchase catastrophic reinsurance and more with reasons that make reinsurance so expensive in the first place. "The beauty of property-casualty insurance is we actually know... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
minimized." Mercadona always takes store operations into account when making supply-chain decisions, Ton continues, and pays particular attention to the design and management of store processes. It also treats labor as an asset to be maximized. "It's a View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
including Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture (1998). A'lelia Bundles, director of talent development for ABC News, and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C. J. Walker (2001) served as the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- Web
Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
in scraping. DownThemAll : A FireFox add-on that allows you to download all the files or images in a webpage and more. Python Requests lxml (supports XPath expressions; more information ) Beautiful Soup Selenium and Headless Chrome... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
That leap was necessary because Camino’s members—whose businesses include restaurants, construction companies, beauty salons, and small manufacturers, among many others—don’t fit the traditional categories for risk assessment. Twenty-five... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
pick something they like to do, work hard, and not worry about the rest—success will come.—Todd Krasnow Rhyne's idea for meeting the "weekly beauty needs"—manicures, facials, massages—of time-pressed women made the semifinal... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- Teaching Interest
Overview
The Business of Aesthetics is a new course for second-year students who are considering careers in sectors and companies whose long-term financial value is built on their ability to deliver aesthetic value. Such companies are rewarded not only for eliciting a high... View Details
Keywords: Aesthetics; Luxury Goods; Retail; Consumer Goods; Design; Creativity; Consumer Behavior; Brand Building; Experience Goods; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
another star in that constellation. William Kirby (General Management) Steve Jobs's legacy is everywhere, not the least in Chinese cities where the Apple stores are crowded from dawn to dusk, and where there are not only knock-off phones on the street but also View Details
- Profile
Brittani Rettig
Can you finish this statement? My perfect workout is "An hour of moderate- to high-intensity hiking on some beautiful outdoor terrain followed by an hour of vinyasa power yoga. It's the perfect combination of strength, cardio, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
write for on The Good Wife: The title character, Alicia. “Because Julianna Margulies could read the back of a cereal box and make it compelling. The beauty of it is that you tend to write less dialogue instead of more, because Julianna... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
Tan, MBA 2023 Komo is a food delivery platform that combines sustainability with beautiful & reusable foodware. ---------------------------------------------------- Circular Economy Contestants MoveItCarmen Marin de Leon, MBA... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
experience and enjoy the beauty of diversity and never thinks that he is superior or inferior to anyone else because of those differences. More importantly, I want him to feel empowered to change the status quo when he realizes it... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
You'll discover the simple joy of early chai and omelette at Kyani and Co., of dawdling in Horniman Circle on a lazy morning, of eating your fill on Mohammed Ali Road, of strolling on the sands at Chowpatty at sunset, or taking the air at Nariman Point at night. This... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Within each city, more Airbnb rooms cropped up during popular travel periods, such as Christmas and the summer. Sports games, festivals, and other events also led to a spike in listings. In Cambridge, Mass., the biggest listing period came during college graduation... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Jones researches the history and impact of global firms. In recent years he has prublished extensively on the ecological and social responsibility of business leaders. He has a strong interest in the business history of emerging markets. He founded and... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent... View Details