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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
products’ quality while keeping its workforce small. “We can’t compete with China’s low wages,” Knott says, “but by investing in computer-controlled equipment, tended by in-house-trained workers, we can afford to pay more than the Chinese... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
St. Louis, albeit briefly, since her position was phased out while she was on maternity leave. She then took a short-term consulting job, followed by three months off from working. Now considering the pros and cons of rejoining the workforce, Lindenmayer recalls the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
products — and such cheerleading is literally paying off. One company that has certainly ridden — and perhaps created — the wave of increased interest in the market is LeapFrog, the developer of the LeapPad system, a computerized device... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
adjourns at 11:25 p.m., the auditorium is nearly empty. This stage is a far cry from the one Cognetti inhabited at Treasury, serving as senior advisor to Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard. From 2009 to 2012, Cognetti... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
included everything from international political conflicts to “an increasingly competitive marketplace.” Most observers assumed this latter challenge was a sign of America’s changing tastes—that the fast-casual, more ingredient- conscious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
International Economy (BGIE) and teaching other courses centered on business-government relations and comparative ideology. He is currently working to start an antipoverty alliance of multinationals, governments, and NGOs that is the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
considerably. He went on to earn advanced degrees in biochemistry and management science and immigrated with his new wife, Shainoor, to Vancouver. After a brief stint at a pharmaceutical company (“I’m an entrepreneur; I just didn’t fit”), Khoja took a job in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
late 1960s. Using ARD as a vehicle and organizing the financial support of some twenty international banks, General Doriot set up a holding company in Luxembourg called European Enterprises Development S.A., known under the acronym EED,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
the owners. And they just out of the clear blue made an offer to me to be a consultant, to leave the partnership, become a consultant for them in international marketing. They never had a marketing department to basically license their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
opportunity to practice their pitches, get feedback from industry leaders, and win financial awards. In addition, the Rock Summer Fellowships provide funding for students to either further their entrepreneurial ideas or to subsidize their salaries if they View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
obviously no PCs. And to see how it was actually changing the way that things were automating. Out of college, I worked for a company called the International Business Machines Corporation --some people know as IBM--and that qualified me... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two bank... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
attractive to alumni who want to do more in their communities, have an impact, and pay it forward. “What they lack is a clear path on how to make that happen inside a hectic life of work and personal commitments,” he says. “Community... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
choose one. There have been so many. I can remember one where Joe Perella was on the phone with the Chairman of International Paper Company. And I'd done the analysis and it started off with me not being available, the first call that Joe... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
a variety of environmental initiatives that he has undertaken over the years. His devotion to preserving the island's natural beauty as well as the Fijian culture has earned Turtle Island accolades that include the 1999 Green Hotelier Award from the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
total—try not to take ourselves too seriously. But yes, I suppose on some level, all of the above. We’re definitely trying to create something that hasn’t existed before, an influential, international institution that will be around in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
example, the Building Owners and Managers Association International 2018 Office Experience Exchange Report indicates average office gross rents of $30.35 per square foot for private-sector office buildings, average utility costs of $2.14,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
would pay attention.” “It was always so much fun to talk to Ted, because his brain never stopped,” remarks HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro. “His mind was truly creative, truly visionary. There was a freshness and exuberance about him,... View Details