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- 01 Feb 1997
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Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
Mexico, and those in the States return whenever they can. Ironically, the majority who go north are not the abject poor but the most entrepreneurial. Mexico badly needs them. With another economic crisis or widespread armed conflict, the... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
widely accepted and utilized in much of the rest of the world, remain virtually unknown in North America. “I suspect it boils down to the following: Too cheap + too simple = minimal profit. Not my idea of responsible capitalism,” he says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
a conversation organized by the Latin America Research Center, there was significant discussion about how the recent influx of venture capital money will reshape the business environment and how established companies can respond to more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
Yahoo, pre-Google, we were trying to think about how to have business models in those fields.” Another group of noteworthy campus visitors: Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his wife, Nan-B, whose deep roots in Canada inspired Sirois to return View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
for the very first time in this part of the world. And it was very important for us to start our beta, which we launched out of Dubai, with a consumer base that knew what we're talking about. And therefore we purposefully—actually, probably surgically—targeted expats... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
for $6.2 million and plans to spend another $16.5 million to retrofit the building. Beyond the money they already have, Markowitz and her board will need to raise an additional $18.5 million. All in all, they are off to a good start: the View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
After decades of decline, despair, and neglect, the last ten years have brought some preliminary signs of revitalization to a number of inner-city neighborhoods in the United States. Blighted areas such as Chicago's North Side, New York's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
our health and the bottom line. There are two parts to his equation: time and money. Let’s start with time: studies have found that in North America and Europe we spend 90 percent of our time indoors. It... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
institutions worldwide. Recently named one of the 50 fastest-growing consulting firms in the U.S. by Consulting magazine, Cicero also made Vault.com’s 2019 list of the 50 best consulting firms in North America. Aligning Services with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push beyond culturally entrenched... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
in North America. Most recently they scaled part of the barren, rocky Andes between Chile and Argentina. The outdoors is their shared passion and where they feel most alive. It’s also their business. In 1998 Kim and Coup cofounded GoLite,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
your gun. You have to run your rabbits down and choke ’em to death.’” After proving himself, Hustead became “choker,” then “old chokey.” He eventually took a one-year sabbatical from the oil fields to return to college and graduated from the University of View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
tell you that corn's symbiotic relationship with humans stretches back 10,000 years, originating in Mesoamerica and migrating north about 1,000 years ago with its human caretakers. The bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
1963 introduced moviegoers to the first US "multiplex" by renovating a theater to include two screens; in 1988, the company opened North America's first "megaplex," the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas, and pioneered stadium seating in 1995.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
link; and the new $1.3 billion Giants/Jets football stadium, which is due for completion in 2010. These undertakings are major priorities, of course, but when Robinson told the (Bergen County, NJ) Record (December 3, 2007), “My fundamental goal is to ensure that the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
issues. ROY WILLIS was born in 1939 in Halifax County, North Carolina, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia, when he was 12. Though an honors student, Willis was denied admittance to the College of William & Mary during the early days of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous