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  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

competition." (As it happens, the company's current strategy is to open stores at a faster-than-usual rate; the first North Carolina QT will open this September, for a total of 20 to 24 stores in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

Decision Making ; Operations ; Food and Beverage Industry ; New Jersey ; North Carolina ; Pennsylvania Citation Educators Related Gibson, Hise O., F. Christopher Eaglin, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone.... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

North Carolina at Chapel Hill, write. To improve the odds for entrepreneurs and leaders, they offer eight strategies. “They’re equally challenging,” McDonald says. “You have to figure out which are the most... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 10 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

Suddenly, the minimum wage debate is on high boil. Perhaps spurred by growing concern over wealth inequality, minimum wage proposals are heating heat up in cities from Chicago to Albany, and in states from South Carolina to Florida.... View Details
Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing
  • 12 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

included varies by source and will change over time In the U.S., 17% of homes have an electric heat pump installed. In the South – in states such as North Carolina and Alabama – this number is above 40% [1].... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

about their experiences before and during the MBA program. Kristen Shipley (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown and which HBCU did you attend? My hometown is Baltimore, Maryland and I attended North Carolina... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Dwight Raiford

Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Finance
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Leadership ; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Education ; Health ; Nutrition ; Social Enterprise ; Relationships ; Business and Community Relations ; Decision Making ; Operations ; Food and Beverage Industry ; New Jersey ; View Details
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. "It was interesting for us to think about how part of your identity seems to go away as you go through that process." “It was interesting for us to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications

    Charles C. Spaulding

    Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 21 May 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    The Importance of Trust for Managing through a Crisis

    Keywords: Re: Sandra J. Sucher; Tourism
    • August 2023
    • Case

    Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

    By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Susan Pinckney and Carolina Bartunek
    Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it's growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management industry View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Customers; Nationality; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Employment; Human Capital; Europe; United Kingdom; United States
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    • August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
    • Case

    Coach K: A Matter of the Heart

    By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey
    Successful college basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski faces the decision whether to accept a lucrative offer to coach a professional basketball team or continue to coach at Duke University. Provides a context for discussing various styles of power, influence, and... View Details
    Keywords: Power and Influence; Strategic Planning; Decisions; Personal Development and Career; Interpersonal Communication; Management Teams; Goals and Objectives; Decision Choices and Conditions; Sports Industry; North Carolina
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    • 21 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

    The North Carolina State Board of Elections began a hearing this week into alleged ballot tampering in last year’s 9th District congressional race, which ended in a razor-thin, 905-vote win for Republican... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

    Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, coauthored the paper with Jon M. Jachimowicz of Columbia Business School; Julia J. Lee of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan; Bradley R. Staats of the University of View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • May 2022
    • Case

    Honeywell: Transforming a Century Old Industrial

    By: William W. George, Michael Norris and John Masko
    In late 2021, Darius Adamczyk, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell is considering the changes he has made to the company since he took over the top leadership position in 2017. The company he had inherited from his predecessor, David Cote, was seen by most as a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Transformation; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Business Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Aerospace Industry; Chemical Industry; Electronics Industry; Green Technology Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Technology Industry; North Carolina; New Jersey
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    • 19 Sep 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Company Loyalty

    "employees can give their employers 100 percent and provide great performance while furthering their own careers," says Joyce Gioia of The Herman Group, a consultancy based in Greensboro, North View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

      John G. Medlin, Jr.

      Medlin expanded the relatively small Wachovia Bank into one of the largest financial companies in the south. During his seventeen year tenure, he acquired banks in Georgia and South Carolina and grew the asset base of the company from... View Details
      Keywords: Finance
      • 21 Apr 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

      included." Liana Kreamer and Steven G. Rogelberg, both of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, argue that many meetings should not end with a decision. They recommend several other options: “If the... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
      • 01 Feb 1998
      • News

      C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe

      made a significant contribution to the growth and development of public education in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast. "Dick does things quietly," observes Richard H. Jenrette (MBA '57), a... View Details
      Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne