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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
wrote about it with such insight and verve, his name will be forever linked to the idea. Beginning in the late 1920s Schumpeter made it clear that entrepreneurship could occur within large and medium-sized firms as well as in small ones,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
pioneer in the study of flexible manufacturing systems. A major component of his work was a comprehensive study of more than half of these systems in use worldwide. The project had a significant impact on improving the management of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
each problem, and their corrective actions were reviewed personally by the secretary of defense. Second, to ensure that crucial items arrived when they were needed, we put together a rapid-resupply system called the Red Ball Express—a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
know was the damage — not always damage, but on balance, plenty of it — that some would do over time. In the name of profits, the workings of a free market, pure self-interest, and outright greed, the American financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong Can you name a handful of measurable initiatives that your organization is actively pursuing to address racial inequities? If not, chances are good that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
than you are and learn from them. Remember that being a business leader is about giving-not taking-and that you can and must make a difference." Recently named by Fortune as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time, Jim Burke recommitted... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
before moving to GE Medical Systems, where he was named CEO in 1997. Reflecting on his years at GE, Immelt recalls many moments of intense, even painful, learning. “In 1989, I was running the appliance service business in the midst of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
Yeo, "is developing human capital, because the country is so small and resource-scarce." A scholarship student at the University of Toronto, Yeo received a degree in industrial engineering in 1970 and then returned home where he earned a master's in View Details
Keywords: Government
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
the fact that their maiden names all begin with the letter M, which inspired the company’s name), the women had all been raised on entrepreneurship. Murakami’s mother had started a company in her 40s. Matsu’s parents, immigrants, founded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first African-American alumni —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
raced up a steep hill to Broadway, found a cab, and for the first time in his life he gave a driver a couple of extra bills with instructions to get him on the next shuttle at LaGuardia. He said his son had just won a Nobel Prize, and the cab driver made him spell the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made fiction writing a full-time pursuit twenty years later. While he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
we’re going to examine why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing its startup crown and what that could mean for the future of innovation. READ MORE If you were asked to name some of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in history, you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
says. “And in a system that requires low levels of taxation, free markets, and privatization of state assets, you have a paradox. The paradox is that the state is in less of a position to act. The state is no longer a redistributor of... View Details