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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. labor View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
purely economic perspective—turning off the carbon-based energy production and building wind farms and solar farms can save people money,” he explains. But he saw that, in many of those places, the transition wasn’t happening. Often,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
For example, Frey Farms used school buses ($1,500 each) instead of tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
successful of the year. But with some 400 employees devoted to research, many with PhDs, the company has significant resources committed to the brains that give its product a technological edge. The company has deals in the pipeline, but... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
the future of BC’s forests for decades and had grown bitter, and there was little hope of resolution. But within four years, Wally and his fellow negotiators hashed out a tentative way forward, and—a decade later—the agreement was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
of the screen plot the discussion of the last hour, which has covered the historic agreement that Santos negotiated to end the country’s 52-year conflict with the FARC in 2016. The Nobel Prize winner is here to View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
between agreement on the [private equity] fund, the commitment on the part of investors into the fund, and the closing—it gets measured literally in months, as opposed to days,” he says. There’s the signing and mailing paper contracts,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
holds dual Italian-American citizenship, grew up on the go, spending time on both sides of the Atlantic. He says his six years in Atlanta is the longest he has ever lived in one place. “I’m really a product of both of my parents,” he... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
of 8 to 10 people who meet regularly to share both professional and personal challenges and discuss the questions in their lives. HBS Club of Dallas / Taste of Forum event, held at the home of Club President Phil Migicovsky. “It’s an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
styles are resonating with consumers. By monitoring data such as social media chatter, shared images, and Google searches, Trendalytics can identify specific trends that a brand can then use to guide everything from the View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future
More Retail Revolutions Sharing Designer Labels Rent the Runway, from Jenn Hyman and Jenny Fleiss (both MBA 2009), brings the sharing economy to the world of fashion, offering big-name dresses—and now... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
products are sold directly to consumers and will be available at a national retailer by summer of 2020. In starting Blueland, Paiji Yoo and Mascari aimed to help reduce up to five billion cleaning-product bottles used per year. “We View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands the people purchasing its View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
company in 2015, moved it to his home state of Utah, and began assembling a team that embraced what he saw as Traeger’s greatest appeal: “Our products give people the confidence to prepare and share meals... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable land currently used by farmers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 led to retaliation all over the world, and trade fell into a downward spiral that exacerbated the crisis. After World War II, the world looked for a solution to the lack of multilateral institutions to govern trade by... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
won for specializing in small direct-current motors, a strategy that has garnered it 50 percent or higher world market share for several decades. Canon’s Lens Product Group was recognized for continuous... View Details
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- 01 Nov 2018
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A Passion for Organization
Cheryl Vance (PLDA 18, 2014) is founder and principal of the VictorLee Group, a management consulting firm in Virginia. In this video, she talks about applying her knowledge of organizations and productivity to her efforts as a volunteer.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
professor Michael A. Cusumano identify the common magic mojo management practices of a trio who were individually very different people but who shared a similar drive. “All three were enormously ambitious and dreamed big dreams—not so... View Details