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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
world, with a great perch at Time, join Reddit as COO. And it was not a clear the company was at a different place at that time. Let’s start with how the opportunity came to you. Jen Wong: So I was actually not working at the time because... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
considered selling your company?’ He replied, ‘Well, no, not until just now.’ Within days, I had an option to buy it.” Upon hearing this oft-told story, many people evidently have marveled aloud at how “lucky” Rogers was to be at the right View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
with us, Bob leaded us, Bob guided us. Bob went to a place called MEDA [Metropolitan Economic Development Association], and MEDA is an organization that helps small businesses to get started and they lend them money and they finance them.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
administrators, and students," he notes. Toward that end, Dobron and SA Technology Committee chair Judy Stahl (MBA '96) helped put into place the School's new information technology platform, which included establishing a site on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
He recalls when the specter of “Japan, Inc.,” was one of manufacturing’s looming concerns. “We’ve been through a cycle of lost competitiveness followed by renewal,” observes Jasinowski, who once worked on the Studebaker assembly line in South Bend, Indiana. “Now I... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Church, Virginia, with his wife and three children, “They told me, ‘Oh sorry, we’ve closed.’ The upside was that my severance paid for a new company.” That company was the Delve Group, which focused on branding and communications services... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
CMO tasked with returning a key consumer brand to relevance. Fin Tales is also the rare book about leading business turnarounds not from the top, where most leaders control all the levers of change, but from the middle, where thoughtful... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
of color. There’s a certain lens, a perspective that I bring to this work. Period. It is so incredibly important that my thoughts and ideas are put on the table—as well as others’. That’s what diversity is all about. It sometimes makes me shudder to think there are... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
think the first thing I realized was, "This is huge." Lagos is very populated. If you're commuting back and forth to places you don't get to really experience it sometimes. Being in Paris, being on the train, and just literally being in... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
The similarity is about the need to make great first impressions, to really stand out in a crowded marketplace and figure out a way to find a personal brand and create that compelling 30-second elevator pitch. So in dating, singles are... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Gaston Azcarraga's Grupo Posadas acquired the Caesar Park brand of luxury hotels in Brazil and Argentina in 1998, he faced the familiar challenge of bridging cultural and linguistic differences. "We realized that being similar is not the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
director Nadir Godrej (MBA ’76), who oversees business divisions in the areas of chemicals, foods, and medical diagnostics. More such acquisitions will take place in the future, he believes, as Godrej expands its worldwide distribution... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
not what Starbucks' brand is all about. It had to be the right fit. He helped us figure that out." Over their four-plus years of working together, Beeninga kept a notebook of Lopez's more memorable comments. For a Christmas gift one year,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
military members wanted to connect with one another. At the time, there was no central place on the Internet for them to do so. Military.com was born. For Beck, the opportunity she saw stemmed from both her professional and her personal... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and self-order digital kiosks that... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
the way you come to understand purpose is when you see an organization that starts from a place of intention, clarity about why are we here. Now, when you think about the purpose itself, purpose has several components to it. So when you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
at certain points in my career but only in hours, never in responsibilities. My advice is to always take the promotion or new job and then figure out how to make it work. Once you have the job, you can redefine it as needed. Women in particular often operate from a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Maybe, you know, those days that you’re late getting home from work, when you are in person, maybe there’s a neighbor who also has kids who you could rely on to keep an eye that your kids get off the school bus and home safely. Or maybe there’s a colleague, if you’re a... View Details