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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation of leaders who care about society as well... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
a new industry. Weeks later, even while struggling to learn some new task in the wee hours of the morning, I would realize what an incredible experience this had become. I went incognito at four of our... 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
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
suburb with thousands of high-quality, low-cost items under one roof. A new term -- hypermarché -- was coined to describe this phenomenon. French consumers were lured away from their traditional patronage of small, locally owned stores to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
pharmaceutical, medical product, hotel, banking, and building product industries, the authors examined the findings of twelve profiles conducted in four companies. In those organizations, the same six issues arose time after time: unclear... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the business-plan stage—so she may be... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
Illustration by Avalon Nuovo Before launching her own startup, Lily Liang (MBA 2008) worked as a product manager in San Francisco’s tech industry, including a stint at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes from 2012 to 2017. Those were... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
“You are seeing meaningful renewable programs in most states, and that’s both good news and bad news.” Using the example of her own company, a private equity firm investing in the energy sector, she explained the challenges of working... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and refrigeration... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
with Renault to manufacture the French carmaker’s low-cost sedan, the Logan, is now exploring ways to expand the boundaries of the alliance to include new products and markets. “Going global is terribly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
So instead of using it to persuade and project your message onto people, Twitter can be a tool to learn about your customers, as another way to get information about what they’re thinking. SG: And also new View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail and services), but the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
without notes while pacing back and forth along the edge of the stage, Ballmer made his case for Microsoft’s continued leadership in technology innovation to a somewhat skeptical audience, as revealed by student questions. If it’s innovation that counts, one student... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
sophisticated communication systems that include detailed weekly reports from UCC’s sales force and senior managers. As long as her days may be — talking on the phone with customers, following up on issues raised during a weekly conference call with senior management,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
five-minute video on your smartphone while waiting in line at the post office or riding the bus to school? No friction at all. This new reality has not gone unnoticed at traditional networks like the Disney/ABC Television Group, where... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Americans.’” —Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986), coauthor (with Nicholas D. Kristof) of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope, forthcoming in January MUST READ Start at the End: How to Build Products that Create Change by Matt Wallaert “I love... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
friendships and networks informally in creative and productive ways. As CEO of a relatively new nonprofit, how do you spend most of your time? Fundraising. We’ve been running on a shoestring, and we... View Details