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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
turnarounds, Gilson uses intensively researched case studies of thirteen corporations that tackled some of the most controversial and innovative restructuring efforts of the last decade. Each case reveals the multitude of decisions that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
named five times by Inc. magazine as one of the country's fastest-growing enterprises. "We proved the critics wrong," Scher says with humble satisfaction. "Working Assets is a successful company that's not afraid to take a stand on View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
satisfaction. The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You Really Need to Know about Our Most Controversial Food by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Lauson Publishing Inc.) This book raises more than 200 of the most common questions that come up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
neighborhood was a product of Detroit’s controversial 1960s urban renewal efforts. “But the way people live today, they want to be close to the action. They want to be close to their jobs. They want to ride their bikes; they want to take... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
beaten play for the championship. In effect, an adults-only paperwork controversy cost the kids a championship of their own. Fortunately, Swearengin noted, “The team all told me they felt like champions, which, for a coach, is a great... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
(MBA 2002), President, CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), Director, Distributed Energy Ventures, National Grid. “Climate change is such a controversial topic,” says Kiernan. “So this event was a big deal, especially with Professor... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
it means for them. It is particularly hard in the U.S. because the topic has become unnecessarily controversial and polarizing. This is a massive communications failure; there’s a massive gap between what scientists know and public... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
the Honeywell/GE merger for the Boston Consulting Group. Rather, she was assigned a client her bosses thought was more befitting a "lady": Mrs. Smith's Pie Company. Even that was a controversial assignment, her superiors fretted, because... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
leadership, the paper provided readers with courageous and award-winning editorial coverage of controversial issues such as the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers. To succeed, not only did Graham have to acquire managerial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
difficult to see the public allowing stem-cell research to be stymied. Helping in that push will be scientific discoveries and advances that will whet the appetite of the hopeful, render previously controversial procedures less necessary,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
were compelled to make what they wanted to make: art that was controversial in some quarters, and overlooked in others, “says Joyner, who feels the kinship of being an outlier in her collecting choices. “This collection is definitely... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
education, as superintendent. In partnership with the charismatic Stanford, Nielsen worked to bring about a "transformation"—a word he much prefers over "reform." In a series of controversial moves, the school board eliminated mandatory... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Boards of Directors of Small Corporations, the first of many books and articles he would write on corporate governance. His research on boards of directors -- he served on many himself -- created great interest and some controversy in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
another study, I found that households that became newly eligible for food stamps in an expansion that started around 2000 were about 20 percent more likely to have an entrepreneur in the family. The social safety net can be a View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
the same time turning Marxism upside down.” And one major way in which Schumpeter upended Marx was in his treatment of the controversial question of monopoly. Writing in the 1930s and early 1940s — a time of mounting public anger over... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
today. When they first emerged, business schools were highly controversial institutions. The profit-maximizing imperatives of business were seen to be at odds with the more disinterested mission of universities. Business education came to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery vehicles" for medicines proliferate, new distribution channels, such as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources like HMOs and pharmacies. A... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
weeks later, the team abruptly announced it would abandon its controversial name and logo. The decision was so sudden, in fact, that the organization offered only a temporary replacement. It would be known, in the interim, as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
person you couldn’t take your eyes off for a minute. He got me motivated to start a business.” His lectures were so memorable and controversial — he once lectured his students on how to pick a wife — that many former students who have... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
of editor in 1955, around the time Dean David retired and was replaced by Dean Stanley F. Teele. Fenn's style favored bold headlines, dramatic photography, and lively alumni profiles. He was not afraid to tackle controversial topics. An... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg