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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
women in South Africa weren’t allowed to work underground. Today, we have 1,400 women working in coal mines there. In platinum, deep underground and in very physical and demanding jobs, there are some 2,500 women miners. A few years ago,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
million shares raising $5.47 billion. “In addition to the financial analysis there’s a lot of judgment involved in deciding where to price an offering. You may have an oversubscribed deal, but how far should you push it? It’s not a simple View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
because the fourth aftershock of an earthquake rarely does,” he explains, “and yet it can still be devastating.” Back to top Re·shor·ing (verb) There were visible cracks in the global supply chain for US firms prior to the pandemic,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on carbon-intensive shipping View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry’s product has unique supply and demand characteristics, it is still... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
planning for new technology that would allow us to do powerful things at the heart of the kind of high-quality education we were committed to providing. Our progress to date is remarkable. You mentioned the use of video in cases. The system on campus delivers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
be interesting to see how much their balance sheets have swelled when they start reporting their financial results. Let’s talk about the medical workforce, where we’ve seen medical students being called up early and doctors coming out of retirement to meet the View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Europe that had exposure to Costco before. Morrell: Amira had something of a Silicon Valley mindset in the first days of BulkWhiz. She was ready to move fast, break things, prove the demand for her product, and then scale. That kind of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
systems, arts groups — typically have access to other resources.” The Bridgespan Group is experiencing the effects of the explosive growth in the nonprofit world. “There is tremendous demand for our services based on the dramatic... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
on for years. Life in a growing frontier town that starts with six people and no buildings either demands frontier justice or unfolds its apparent willingness to assist the murderer's effort to avoid his fate. Indian troubles, vigilantes’... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
country, manufacturing capacity, supply chains, and money, lots of money. As the head of the United Kingdom’s new Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) has a bird's-eye view of the whole process. A life science venture capitalist... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
revenues. Busy managing several hundred employees and a network of 25 growers, Ruth Owades may not have time to smell the roses, but she's not complaining. « Back Supplies and Demand Sometimes a small... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
currency manipulation. In the first phase of the crisis, between mid-2007 and mid-2008, the dollar depreciated roughly 25 percent against the currencies of its major trading partners, including 9 percent against the renminbi. Because this coincided with simultaneous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
products of countries where those sports were already widely popular and enjoyed high-caliber infrastructure and player-development systems. The success of these star imports to North America created demand back home, and globally, for... View Details