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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was in Panama participating in Operation Just Cause, set to remove military dictator Manuel Noriega from power. He was with the Seventh Infantry Division and, during combat five days before the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
documenting quality grassroots music from all around the world, has greatly enhanced its operational efficiency, a key to its competitive health as a small but highly regarded independent label. Knutson, who still keeps in touch with his... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal government’s attempts to access data... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
simultaneously. It’s a familiar juggling act in an erratic business that can see an actor suddenly drop out or a director lose interest. “My days are endless phone calls, e-mails, reading, and meetings,” says Zee, “talking to writers,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed on most things, including the public offering. But being up to speed on something and owning ultimate responsibility are two... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
allow him to earn his high school degree through night courses. After one particularly frustrating temp gig—working as a forklift operator with no training—he remembered a restaurant in Albany, New York, that rehired him every summer and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
models from which they were born,” says Cheng, citing the convention of the 2-hour movie and 30-minute or 1-hour TV sitcom or drama. “Now we have the factor of a mobile phone and a shorter format.” The question then turns on the best... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
display were successfully resolved, and the Sony eBook launched in the United States to extensive media coverage as the first mainstream offering in the e-reader market (the Kindle would not appear until November 2007). Over time, E Ink added new customers in cell... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
made it far enough to launch a spring and fall collection and received widespread media coverage. The brand was slowly starting to gain traction with customers, too. But by the end of 2012, the startup—running low on cash and plagued by View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
business. Often I help clients find love in a different package than they envisioned initially, but they end up happy. Can you explain? Last week I had a very successful CEO come to me and ask for help in finding a particular type of woman. We started off with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
were you doing when you heard the news? Merton: I was just about ready to leave for an early morning flight to New York. The phone rang in my apartment at about quarter to six. I could easily have been out the door. I answered the phone,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
percent of its operating revenue came from a dwindling endowment, and the school had been through four executive directors in two years. Relations with the neighboring town of Harlan, the county seat, were at an all-time low: The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
other, and we’d bang out some pushups together,” recalls Fisher. “We complement each other well. Tim operates with a combination of vision, passion, and gut instinct. I’m more analytical and process-oriented.” Photos by Vance Jacob Photos... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
to bed, and all of a sudden your cell phone rings and it’s some emergent work issue and you have to take a call and you find yourself beating yourself up because there you go, breaking your promise. You were going to spend time with your... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
do have so few opportunities in today's world to do that kind of work. It seems we always have our phones with us and our work with us, and it gets harder and harder to step out of that, I think. DiDonna: One of the questions I often get... View Details