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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
FY 2007, it had posted $23 million in profits but also had begun to experience the harsh realities of rising corn prices, falling ethanol prices, and land scarcity. With all of these factors as a backdrop, students analyze several options... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were “nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which an... View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
work with Mother’s Shea and Eu’Genia are paid a 20 percent premium for their nuts, and 15 percent of company profits are channeled back to the families of the shea-nut pickers to help cover educational costs. For the women without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
begin with, some CEOs find the prospect of succession downright depressing. For them it means failure or organizational death. They love the job; it is their identity. They think of building a cohort of potential leaders, not as the path to View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Prusak identify the social elements that contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and high productivity and show how nearly every managerial action can enhance or diminish an organization's social capital. Profit from the Core: View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
expands Patagonia’s business in the rapidly growing and increasingly profitable used-clothing market, which can cut the carbon, waste, and water footprint of a purchase by 82 percent. “Imagine if used Patagonia products become the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
alumni have told me, the reason for us to be engaged with business and society is not just because it's a moral issue or a social issue (though it is both), but also because neglecting to address it will affect economic growth and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
linguistic, economic, social,and business-culture obstacles — daunting for a foreigner under the best of circumstances — while making the inevitably unpopular decisions required to achieve a turnaround. Fast-forward a couple of years, to a return to View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Heightened surveillance overall is essential. As for reforms, one step would be to require that securities analysts be genuinely independent of the investment banking side of the firms they work for. Profits on the investment banking side... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
further in the near term and/or increase domestic borrowing vastly. An expanded federal role in the economy will crowd out financing available for productive private investment and diminish growth and job creation. The future of American... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
the breakthrough development of Liquid Tide in 1984, is proud that most of P&G's growth in recent years has come from core products that are household names around the globe. "I really believe you should play to your strengths," he says.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
step by step, before you sign your first member, all the way through to selling your profitable business or winding it down. If you’re someone who doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel, this book is for you. The Blessed Generation: Fifty... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details