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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Wruck cites one case she followed in which the initial match looked great. The target and bidder had operations in the same industry, creating a potential for synergies. But integration of the target into the acquiring firm and its subsequent oversight by corporate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
(SVB), headquartered in Santa Clara, California, wields enormous influence within the tightly knit venture community. So when the bank’s president and CEO, Ken Wilcox (MBA 1983), comes calling, it’s an important occasion — at least under... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
of Consolidated Container Company (CCC). Headquartered in Atlanta, CCC has some 4,500 employees and manufactures its plastic containers at 68 different plants. Of these, 24 are on-site with customers and 5 are located in Canada, Mexico,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
goodwill. With the Games only weeks away, officials at the headquarters of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) are putting the final touches on a six-year preparation effort that culminates with next month's opening... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
started planning that school, now known as Year Up. Headquartered in Boston with sites in three other cities, Year Up’s mission is to help “disconnected youth” access real career opportunities through an intense year of training in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
lunchtime, we’re back in Boulder. Sausage, steak, and veggie burgers sizzle on a grill in the parking area behind GoLite’s corporate headquarters in a nondescript business park. Employees sip beer and chat under a blue canopy set up for a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
daunting challenges, but they each expressed a zealous commitment to their work and a heartfelt belief in their products. Brand Recognition: Michael Moynihan Michael T. Moynihan (MBA 1993) was reintroduced to LEGO as an adult when his job as a Cheerios brand manager... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Jones at Extend Fertility’s new headquarters in Allston, Massachusetts. Serial entrepreneur Christy Jones is interested in the balance between innocence and experience. With two start-ups under her belt and a third on the way, Jones is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
outlook, investors will again turn to Mexico." DeRemate.com, an Internet auction house founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, has operations in eight Latin countries and the United States. Its cofounders, CEO Alejandro C.... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
bus. START SMALL, THINK BIG: Clients of Compartamos Banco, a microfinance institution based in Mexico City that funds entrepreneurial activity in the areas of agriculture, crafts, and consumer products and clothing. Courtesy Compartamos Banco The next morning we visit... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
see, or rather what they will experience, will change as the technology evolves. There’s an anecdote IBMers share at Watson’s gleaming new headquarters on Astor Place in the East Village. One day, a boy named Kevin walked into his... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
space—a loft, shared with a home-and-clothing shop—is the headquarters of Charley's Fund, a nonprofit that Tracy Seckler and her husband, Benjy, founded in 2004 after their son, then three years old, was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
and I feel a responsibility to offer support and an example to other women working at the company as well.” “In a country like Afghanistan, to have a female HR director hiring and firing anyone—especially a man—is revolutionary,” says Ladak. Khoja greets employees at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
with the investment-management firm PIMCO, Lemmon is now the deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the influential, nonpartisan think tank headquartered in New York. She has recently... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
Field sales was aware of the problem Intel faced, but, according to a sales engineer in the Hauppauge, New York, headquarters of Intel’s Atlantic Region, “the message wasn’t getting through to management on the West Coast.” On November 2,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
is that the best capture media, or sorbent, hasn’t been invented yet. This system should be able to handle most of the things that we throw at it in its 30-year-or-so lifetime. How far along are you in this project? We have a prototype up and running in our View Details