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05 Aug 2024
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Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

3.6 percentage point rise in the probability a financial crisis will ensue. When commercial lending is backed by real estate, the alarm sounds even louder. Each standard deviation increase in real-estate backed corporate credit relative... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
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Calera Corporation

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Lauren Barley

Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently commissioned prototype flue gas processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry

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29 Aug 2024
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Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

"customer focused." Try to create value out of novelty. Succumbing too much to commercial pressures such as taking on easy jobs may lose your distinctiveness. Where Do Creative Ideas Come From? How Kayak Users Built a New... View Details

William M. Allen

In 1945, when Allen was appointed CEO, Boeing faced cancellation of $1.5 billion in wartime contracts. Under Allen’s leadership, Boeing kept course and later prospered. In 1952, Boeing’s B-52 was chosen by the Air Force as its intercontinental bomber, and in 1959, the... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

01 Dec 2009
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Education Revolution

COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education revolution,” documentary filmmaker and venture capitalist Bob Compton (MBA ’84) told the Memphis View Details

Keywords: charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

P. Roy Vagelos

Vagelos had an uncanny ability to turn scientific research into commercial blockbuster success. He is credited with rejuvenating Merck’s research efforts, culminating in the development of breakthrough applications for hypertension, heart... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

including biographical material, correspondence, writings, memorabilia. Bourke-White's photographs and negatives are held in a separate collection, also located in SCRC. Victor Keppler Papers Papers of the American commercial photographer... View Details

Ernest Gallo

cooler, a new wine product, selling 2 million cases, and helping the company to exceed an estimated $1 billion in sales that same year. The commercial characters Gallo created to pitch his new wine cooler to the public, Frank Bartles... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

February 2014
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BGI: Data-driven Research

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving... View Details

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Arjun Goyal

a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical development... View Details

James Stillman

Benefiting from his close ties to William Rockefeller and “the Rockefeller crowd,” Stillman was able to not only grow National City’s commercial banking business, but also to expand operations into the investment banking arena. Under... View Details

Keywords: Finance

29 Sep 2008
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Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in commercial and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Sep 2010
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Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest

27. The winner of the business venture track, OsComp Systems, is commercializing an innovative technology that forces natural gas through pipelines at lower cost and with greater efficiency. The social venture track winner, Urban Water... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

06 Feb 2014
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The Art of American Advertising

capita income fueled commercial expansion and the emergence of the American consumer market, spurring on manufacturers and businesses to produce a fantastic variety of printed materials to advertise their products." In addition to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)

In 1957 a group of eight scientists, disenchanted with the management style of their Nobel Prize-winning boss, William Shockley, walked out of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in Palo Alto. Armed with the technical expertise to View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles

competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s successful strategies. “We’re not going to just count... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2003
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Studying Japan from the Inside

quite a few companies face this issue. Another challenge is corporate governance. Historically, banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies were dominated by insiders. Last April, however, the View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Marjorie M. Post

Under Marjorie’s leadership, Postum Cereal was expanded through acquisitions, which enabled her to take the company public. The company was eventually reorganized to form the General Foods Corporation, which remains one of the largest food conglomerates in the United... View Details