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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
States has seen a marked improvement in energy efficiency, but solar has proven not to be the most promising alternative energy source. In contrast to his call for energy independence, other voices put environmental protection first, with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
will be in this last group. Amid the challenges of protecting the environment and halting its decline in urban areas and elsewhere, there is a consensus that sustainability will drive business during the coming years and that the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was fighting meta-static colon cancer. "My dad looked at me and said, 'Why don't you think about doing that?' I have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
compelled to focus on protective legal processes and box-checking exercises rather than on formulating company strategy, identifying risks, and evaluating executive performance. The increasing time commitment required of board members,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Peters Family Foundation, the Bezos Family Foundation, and the Edgerley Family Foundation through Paul (MBA 1983) and Sandra Edgerley (MBA 1989). NAATE's intensive program is... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
rewarding to operate from a place of strength. Be unapologetic about protecting your time with your family. You’ll make mistakes, but over time you will hone the ability to know what to attend and what to miss.” —Eva Heyman (MBA 2002),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
lost all five fingers on his left hand while trying to protect his men from a defective distraction grenade that exploded prematurely. Jefferson was hospitalized for months and then well for the first time in years, he didn’t know what... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
programs that any government could have, which was the drive to make India open-defecation-free. India went from having about 40 percent ownership of toilets, as in only 40 percent of the households own toilets, to what the government now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Himalayan climbing team, the executive director of an innovative low-income senior housing community, and the founder of a pioneering youth basketball program for girls. Examples of “fixing it” also come from the journeys of entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
contrast, “we cause disasters that happen to ourselves,” he said. But there’s a built-in tension between having the state protect businesses from failure and allowing financial evolution to take its course, resulting in moral hazard — the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
by Ted Turner, who sold his company, Turner Broadcasting, to Time Warner. As a result, I found myself reporting to Bob Daly and Terry Semel, the chairmen and co-CEOs of Warner Bros. That in turn led to my being asked to run the film View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) (Harper) In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers raiding insurgent compounds in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
way that best represented and protected the interests of a complex set of stakeholders. John and Natty McArthur met in the eighth grade, dated in high school, and married before both graduated from the University of British Columbia in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts, which teach the statistics or... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
software to protect customers' computer files from the threatened disaster. Such "utilities software" is the brainchild of Peter Norton (13th OPM), the founder of Peter Norton Computing Inc., which merged in 1990 with Symantec Corp.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
a bad quarter, successfully changing the company culture, and introducing a new business model. Nice Start: Questions Only You Can Answer to Create the Life Only You Can Live by Mark Chussil (MBA ’79) (Inkwater Press) Inside Story By Greg Dyke (AMP 105, 1989)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
the brand through other channels. But now he wonders whether to break it off. Sticking with Amazon means a simplified supply chain. The Fulfillment by Amazon program handles fast fulfillment and, with free shipping, the economics are... View Details