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- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
Illustration by Daniel Bejar The Chinese economy seems to have finally hit the brakes. Thanks to stalling real estate and export markets, this year China reported first and second quarter growth rates of 7 percent—its lowest numbers in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have lower levels of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
the right inputs to grow more and access the right markets to sell more. Co-ops are one way to do this (form a group to access credit for inputs and sell products in bulk), but they are notoriously messy and hard to sustain. There are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
fan support. Nobody puts out a more exciting product or showcases more talented and skilled athletes than the major American professional leagues. But have the beauty, fun, and thrills of games - which once far outdistanced the commercial... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid, too, with Congress assessing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
his MBA, Sagansky spent a year as an analyst at CBS in New York before heading to the West Coast, where he worked at NBC and then with an independent production company. In 1982, he found himself back at NBC's Burbank facility, in charge... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
trajectory, The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” The company acquired gaming studio Activision... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
to millions. "Global recycling rates are only around 30 percent," says Birnbaum, meaning that 70 percent of bottles and cans end up at the dump. "It's criminal." Birnbaum revels in challenging Big Soda. He likes that his View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her career at Bain & Company, working... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
consumption it’s not an accessible product for the vast majority of people who are reading the news online. Many respected news outlets don’t make it easy. Sometimes it’s a curation issue, where you’re getting a lot of volume. There can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
estimates are that a 15 percent tax on reported GAAP profits would be revenue-neutral for the government. A tax with a lower rate on a more sensible base is a central lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, and S’well. From... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and costs. I don’t know what our energy system will look like in the future, but the future will be better than we can imagine because technology is going to improve, and the rate of improvement is going to be faster than anything we’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
husband and two children across the country for a job at a no-name Internet start-up. What changed your mind? I spent the day at eBay. I learned that users were deeply dedicated to the site, which had a compound monthly growth rate of 70... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
And the investor was lured into thinking that if the underlying asset was appreciating so quickly, any mistake would be camouflaged by that increase in value. What is your view of proposed remedies, such as freezing interest rates on some... View Details