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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
itself, but it actually forces you to think about building companies not in an institutionalized manner. It asks you to essentially create an outcome in a matter of five to ten years and kind of go away to the next View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and racism are built into markets, business systems, and technology. The T.R.A.P. Lab has developed an algorithm audit platform that collects data about the outcome of an algorithm within a particular context and then assesses its impact... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
role in several of them," says Laguë. "I learned that you spend 90 percent of your time on the companies that don't make it. Investing in fewer companies is more interesting than investing in many, and you have better outcomes. The View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
was adopted by the World Bank and other institutions. Finally, in an effort that posed unique performance measurement challenges, 250 schools were either constructed or rehabilitated. "The outcome of investments in education, such as... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Scott Royster (MBA 1992) believes higher education has the power to transform Africa if only its students have access to it. “Statistics from around the world show that individuals who are able to obtain a university degree earn higher lifetime incomes that those who... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact
could make an impact.” India has a population of 1.4 billion people, and some 25 percent of adults are illiterate. To improve the educational outcomes for current and future generations, Mahajan, Gupta, and three friends cofounded Rocket... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
districts in Texas. Let’s just say the outcome of the election was that I was the recipient of the silver medal!” he reveals with a rueful laugh. By all indications, the defeat did little to dampen Skelly’s idealism or entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
can upgrade local infrastructure and support business growth.” “It was a good outcome for all of us,” Scharfman adds. Although it is a separate venture, these days Scharfman also is excited about the potential of the Fresh Cheese Company,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
lowest-income countries," he explains, "76 percent of health spending is private, and 70 percent is out of pocket." Furthermore, the health services and products that poor people pay for are all too often inferior. Thus, making better health services and View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
political system functions just as every other competitive industry does, and how the duopoly has led to the devastating outcomes we see today. Using this competition lens, Gehl and Porter identify the most powerful lever for change—a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
economy is rooted in a technology of scarcity, like fossil fuels, and there’s not enough, you get what we have today, namely, impoverished outcomes for most of humanity. If you want a society of abundance, you have to build solutions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for Research on Education... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience
so much about the unexpected upside of hardship. Somani: When I think about silver linings and I reflect on my past five-plus years following treatment, silver linings are the positive outcomes that have resulted and didn't just come... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
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What It Takes
firm's intellect away from my perhaps not-so-remarkable talents, and we ended up with remarkable outcomes for over 30 years. So that system only happened because we had an early disaster. Dan: In the book, Steve, you write that every... View Details
- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
outcomes for the city groups we worked with and hopefully higher impact for the residents of San Francisco.” Nora Barr (MBA 2016), who recently finished two projects with the SF Public Library, says Community Partners not only allowed her... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
anticipated benefits and efficiencies never materialized," explains Wruck. "Once deals are completed, disappointing outcomes can occur because perceived premerger synergies, such as product-line complementarities, are often elusive."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2025
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Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
typical earnings outcome would be [after college]. But the majority of states can’t tell you what kind of jobs people get. That’s critical, to have any sense of supply-demand gaps that are not being met in the labor market. This is not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
The price was five times our investment: It had been eight years, a little longer hold than we would have liked, but a very good outcome nonetheless. The CEO would continue to run the company and signed up for a whole new equity package;... View Details