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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
in three years, with firms less able to compete in the global marketplace, pay employees higher wages and benefits, or both. A turnaround would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system, the... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
persistently - the push for human rights and the rule of law in China. Without those concepts in place, the country's economy will never develop properly." She adds that "the most-respected American companies in China are the ones that adhere to those principles and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
the strong belief that I could succeed in any business environment." Baxter's latest challenge has been managing the successful acquisition and integration of Norse Dairy Systems, a leading manufacturer of ice-cream cones and other novelty supplies that will swell... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
competing on; determining how to fund excellence in these areas; designing management systems that help employees to succeed at their jobs; and training their customers. To be a great service company, do you have to be equally good at all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company executives, and hundreds of View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
but Mark Kramer and Michael Porter had a whole course focused on the issue, and the students said, “Would it really make a difference?” The problems we face are so big that even if every corporation in the world cleaned up its own act and paid its own View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill Lynch, could be next. “To protect the View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Marketing Muscle
is saturated with companies promising an endless variety of services, marketing savvy has become the skill most in demand to ensure stand-apart success, the article said. It also noted that many venture capitalists now insist that a start-up's management team include... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
in a summertime interview in her temporary office space in northern Virginia, preferred not to reveal too much about the thirteen-member operation. But the excitement of running her own firm with a first-rate crew of employees was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
population is under 25, and youth unemployment stands at 28 percent. “The human capital is there,” she says. “And they are thinking outside of the box.” In many ways, BulkWhiz, which has now grown to more than 50 employees and could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
to craft a case that captures the dynamics common across many situations, and that also brings in unique elements from individual examples to highlight important themes. With 450 employees and more than $300 million Canadian in annual... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
is in energy efficiency. She was an early employee of OPower, a software company that provides utilities, and their customers, better information about energy usage. After the company’s IPO, in 2014, Poindexter took a step back to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
element of a hiring decision, but it helps reduce uncertainty. We’re learning so much about how employee well-being drives engagement and performance, and I think organizations will operate differently in the future from a work-life... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
preschool children in low-income neighborhoods. "I'm in this work because I've got the heart for it," he says. Now five years into his time at Second Harvest, he continues to find inspiration in managing a $120 million organization with 150 View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
business as he rescued Big Blue, then a stumbling mainframe-computer giant, and rebuilt it into a powerful but nimble information-technology company. Judith R. Haberkorn (AMP 111, 1992) The retired president for consumer sales and services at Verizon Communications,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
On the most basic level, job interviews provide an opportunity for companies and potential employees to exchange essential information. But in today’s crowded job market, applicants who really want to outclass the competition need to go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
company can ever be completely safe — even if a firm disconnects from the Internet, unauthorized personnel or disgruntled employees inside the company’s facilities can figure out ways to access its computers — some firms, especially those... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
heavily in employees and the other focuses mainly on shareholders or customers," Paine says. A secondary category of ethical issues, she notes, involves questions arising from the actual M&A; transaction. "Some really vexing issues... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
painfully with finances every time a family member gets an unexpected diagnosis. We started Hive Health to make health insurance more accessible to the employees (and their loved ones) of small- to medium-size businesses, and we did so in... View Details