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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion: once we gained the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
going to have some very disappointed customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
picture to offer the city’s big banks a proposal: With their support, the Fund and Accenture would establish an accelerator for fintech startups that would allow financial services institutions to shop locally for innovative tech, rather... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
electronics, internet services, health care. And they are the caregivers of their families and their communities, and so it's a huge opportunity that has yet to really be tapped in terms of really creating IP and products that really understand the female consumer.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message
change throughout the advertising industry. Already, Deighton notes, people who were not traditionally attracted to advertising -- MBAs and technology buffs, for instance -- are entering the field. At WPP, in fact, Sorrell has successfully View Details
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
dance, the Cultural Olympiad offers something memorable for every 1996 Olympic Games visitor. "Like the folks involved with the sports side of the Games, we intend for this to be the best Olympic Arts Festival ever," says Segerlind. After... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Mar 2022
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Well Said
quickly noticed a disconnect between the English language of an Albanian classroom and the one spoken in a New Haven dorm room, with classmates constantly asking her to repeat herself. Inspired by her experiences both in personal and professional settings, Lakra... View Details
- 04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terry Finley turns race horses into investment opportunities. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York, Finley buys promising colts and fillies and then View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
your knowledge cleanly between those pieces you want to protect—the component on which you’ll build the value-capturing part of your business—and the knowledge that you’re going to put into the public domain. Let your users go to town on... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job
go out and talk to weak ties about these things—and you can sort of blame us for that, by all means. And then if we equip you with the ability to tell your story using some of the best means of telling a story—we draw on Pixar's story spine approach to View Details