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14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

for the private sector's consumer-driven experiences with lower-income populations, the experience of Whole Foods, a supermarket chain, is instructive. As of 2004, its employees, primarily blue collar, have saved $14 million in health... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

customer request, instead of what the rest of the industry is doing, which is just looking at the outputs of the governmental models,” says Elkabetz. For airlines, access to more accurate weather forecasts—both short and long term—enables decisions that improve safety... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2006
News

The Real Conflict

prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to Wal-Mart’s domestic sales volume, U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Implications of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Transfer Guidelines: Healthcare Dollars Saved by Reducing Iatrogenic Triplets By: Lee, Malinda S., Brady T. Evans, Ariel Dora Stern, and Mark D. Hornstein... View Details

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

Katz took some of her family savings to place a small ad in Seventeen magazine for small handbags and belts in 1951. Within a few weeks, she had received $16,000 worth of orders, and sales have skyrocketed ever since. She began expanding... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Web

Shimon Attie Night Watch (Victor with Freedom Tower), Hudson River 2018 | About

Watch displayed silent close-up video portraits of twelve new New Yorkers whose lives have been saved by recently being granted political asylum in the US. Most of the individuals are from the international LGBTQI communities or were... View Details

11 May 2021
News

Pitching to Win

“This year has underscored the power of knowledge to save lives, to save communities, and to help lead us into what we hope will be a more normal future.” READ MORE View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2013
News

Plugged In

pretty surreal," says Camargo. But the day after the show, the reality of the challenge ahead of him remained: How, exactly, do you sell America a high-end electric car? 1. DITCH THE OLD PITCH The first wave of electric vehicles had a dual environmental and economic... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Ryan Kennedy

I have a special place in my heart for McDonald's. Not the Happy Meals or golden fries. I value the opportunity that McDonald's provided my family. My dad started work there at age sixteen, and my mom joined soon after. Both worked hard, View Details

07 Jul 2016
News

Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

agriculture, poultry production, and savings and lending services. In December 2015, it “graduated” its first three villages in Senegal. “They reached self-sufficiency, which is the holy grail of this work,” says Ruhr, a former corporate... View Details

October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
Case

eShip-4U

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter

eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Israel; United States

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Webinars: Career

Why Your Pitch Isn't Working and How to Fix it

Whether you're pitching an idea, a project, or yourselfyou've got a tight window to hook your listener and pique their curiosity. Jodi Glickman, CEO of Great on the Job, shares a foolproof three-step strategy for pitching yourself in an authentic and compelling way. View Details

19 Mar 2019
News

Mission Critical

save lives, but if you don't have a team that's committed to that too, you won't be successful. I have been fortunate to lead teams that are engaged, that are active, and that are everyday looking for that next opportunity to help View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
News

Summing Up the New Students

Minneapolis. It was beautiful, and a great time to just think.” Jonathan Gary Dallas, Texas CV: Account associate, PIMCO, Newport Beach, California “I had to do some shopping once I got to Boston—a pair of L.L. Bean boots and a down jacket. But I’ve also View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

George S. Lannom, Jr.

Though he began his business as a tannery for the production of saddles and other equine equipment, Lannom was forced to diversify when the automobile gained popularity. To save his business, Lannom turned to the manufacture of baseballs... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

access to immediate help in the event of a medical, police, or fire emergency. RAJU’S BRAINCHILD: In just two years, EMRI’s ambulances have delivered life-saving medical service to more than 11,000 people in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Raju’s goal is to expand the... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

Portrait Project

JJ Singh

declined. After 28 years of service in the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was months away from retirement. He was squirreling away his vacation days — each representing a few hundred dollars. "This will all be your money when I die," he said. My parents... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

College Daze

American parents wholeheartedly believe in the importance of a college education, but relatively few are saving enough for that not-so-distant day when Junior's whopping tuition bills will start rolling in. Enter UPromise, Inc., a... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets

education, leveraging "Nollywood"—Nigeria's film industry, ranked third largest in the world—to promote a culture of saving and investing among Nigerians. (Published April 2014) View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Leading in business and in public education

saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details

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