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- 13 Apr 2022
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New School
could have the biggest positive impact in education. When Waldron joined Curriculum Associates, the company had already been doing just that for almost 40 years. The owner asked Waldron to make a long-term commitment to those same ideals and sign a View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Gazprom Goes Global
price to maximize profits. Ukraine responded by telling Gazprom that it would refuse to pay the increase, and furthermore, it intended to charge Gazprom more to use Ukraine’s pipelines to transit gas to Europe. Russia waited until the existing View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
the federal government, was that Black people could not get mortgages, and therefore Black people had to go to the gray market for finance. And the gray market was where white buyers were actually buying homes and selling them to Blacks on what was called View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Coach for Life
Showcase" series that aims to draw attention to recently published cases. Notes from Coach Hurley's playbook: High Standards Players must sign a 20-item contract agreeing to strict academic, lifestyle, and team standards. During Hurley's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go
market often lacks one or more core infrastructure elements, such as a supply of trained business professionals, liquid stock exchanges, predictable contract enforcement, or quality service providers for auxiliary needs like printing and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
a fitness event headlined by Jakarta’s popular governor. He also had to deliver a signed contract and an invoice to two separate clients. This could all mean hours in traffic. His solution was an all-of-the-above approach. Using his... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
"Unfortunately," he says, "hockey is the one sport that aggravates my old injury. Fans hear about big contracts but they should remember that careers like mine can be cut short in an instant. These days," he smiles, "the only... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2004
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Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
percent outsourced. “We are absolute converts,” he said, citing the benefits of cost reduction, quality, and flexibility. The end of a contract is always a new opportunity to make improvements, demand more, and reprice. If IT workers were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Centre. “It was time to cash in on my public profile and cement the connection in people’s minds between training and job placement and Sarina Russo,” she explains. To fill the center’s nine vacant floors, Russo won government contracts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
more Americans were willing to borrow. Chimerica, in other words, was the underlying cause of the surge in bank lending, bond issuance, and new derivative contracts that “Planet Finance” witnessed after 2000. It was the underlying cause... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Game Time
says. “With this type of AR, we can draw family and friends to the table for game nights in a whole new way, even when your fellow players are at different tables, in other cities.” Stats: Tilt Five is located in San Jose, California, and has 14 employees and four... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC money, Energicity grew... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
contract to publish a book, Rediscovering America, and advises local institutions including the Josyln Art Museum, the Omaha Children's Museum, and the Kiewit Luminarium on depictions of indigenous culture. Omaha translates to "against... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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Authentic Leadership
their own leadership style and determine their inner compass. They are invited to draw up a contract establishing norms and confidentiality, allowing for openness about vulnerabilities as they share their life stories and confront... View Details
- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
to that time, things are more normalized and sane. We’re seeing more experienced, repeat entrepreneurs who have created valuable companies and been through the IPO cycle and the M&A cycle. I think entrepreneurship and innovation are still strong. The View Details