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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
traction the business got in the market but by the number of people we were able to employ. In 2009, while I was working in Senegal with a private equity firm, Ndidi and I noticed that a huge amount of the packaged food in stores was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
afford." During Hubert's sophomore year at Dartmouth, her mother took a severance package from General Motors and accepted a job as a live-in nanny in upstate New York to cut down on her living expenses. "I was working more than twenty... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
rather than inspirational leadership.” Of one CEO’s recent exit package ($26.4 million in stock, plus $100 million in cash), Ferracone, noting that the individual’s compensation history was already excessive, told USA Today (November 11,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
enhancements (did you know there is a synthetic shoe odor molecule you can buy? It smells.), pitching a new retailer, making a new animated GIF of feet sweating or something else wacky, designing packaging for a different section of a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
has held that sheer corporate size could ensure industry dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit “blind spot.” While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota “strives to use its... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
other products.” Like for instance, delivering e-commerce packages or being cash-in/cash-out points for financial services in a market with high underbanked rates. And so totally reinvented the model, learning in some ways from what... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
journal articles, blog posts, and podcasts. “The work is extremely exciting—we think it’s breakthrough—but it is very hard to figure out how to package it in a way that is digestible by normal people,” she says. “One of the examples I... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets last summer, the View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
the dark of evening. “I got a package here; just need a signature,” he says, straining for a look inside the house. Whitman tilts her phone 90 degrees, switching from landscape to portrait mode, which triggers a shift in perspective: Now... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
“Some of the other big megatrends are AI and autonomous cars, and how they will affect the transportation sector. We also have drones, and when we’re delivering packages and using drones instead of trucks on the highway, it’s really going... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
our reaction to the human problems that this crisis causes.” Breton noted that many in France were angry about rescue packages for banks when ordinary people received no help and were losing their businesses. Summers acknowledged the... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
assertive." As an undergraduate at Northwestern, she discovered an aptitude for design while working in the college print shop. Following that path to New York's Pratt Institute, she earned a master's degree in package design. "At Pratt... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
speak the same language. In some ways, he’s helping me translate my experience from PepsiCo and from packaged goods to this reality, which has been really helpful.” And it feels like the three have a shared mission, says Cunningham.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have increased tremendously through the use of information technology," Harad notes. He points out that in the office products distribution business, order fulfillment (30,000 40,000 individual orders per day at peak ordering time), View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
ways companies and institutions are thinking about the older worker—[that they] can provide so much value. And it's not the stereotype that they cost more because they're looking for different flexibility in their compensation packages... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
shareholders that they override the CEO. "But the real zero-sum game is which one of them will win the CEO's position," says Lorsch. "It is relatively simple for two leaders to agree on a lucrative financial package for themselves - after... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
it far because there’s a lot of air you’re moving around,” he explains. “This is very much a local business.” Consumer preference for plastic and the marketing trend toward rejuvenating a brand with new packaging designs have been pushing... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
retailers). Another day, we will be testing formulas for a new product, sending pitch emails to editors for PR coverage, and meeting with our designers on packaging updates.” What do you know now about startup life that you didn't know... View Details