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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the ultimate challenge. "People... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
families, he launched projects collectively worth more than 500 million and helped create Spain's first real estate investment trust. He took over at Metrovacesa in 2016, just as the domestic market was taking off. By the time of its IPO... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to nonprofits, and many more subjects.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
worries about losing focus on the hospitality business. The other side of that: If those pilots prove successful, they could open up a new core business. And with the market getting crowded—with heavies like Samsung and Philips making... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes intense cyclicality that can result in turmoil and hardship for many. And we interfere with that cyclicality at our peril, as pent up economic forces will eventually be unleashed with far greater ferocity. Still, under capitalism, View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
enrolled in US colleges and universities. The Question: Confi’s online health resource is marketed directly to students, but the go-to-market strategy for its sexual assault prevention program is less clear. How can Confi break into the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not only did Dorsen and Dodi see... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
teachings of Muhammad prohibit Muslims from accepting or charging interest. As oil prices and the individual incomes of many Muslims in the Middle East skyrocketed in the 1970s, so too did the need for financial instruments that allowed devout Muslims to invest their... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town, one boy dreams of saving enough... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
separate technology, product development, and marketing operations. The reorganization imposed much-needed focus and put renewed emphasis on accountability for on-time, on-budget product delivery. “At the beginning of 2006, we were... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
can cause pneumonia; it had previously only been recommended for children. (The recommendation was later softened when it became clear that vaccinating children naturally led to fewer cases in older adults.) But few believed that the underlying fundamentals of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
into this business from the time I was thirteen, when I was given a couple of shares of stock," says the quietly intense Kingdon. "Even though the market nose-dived soon thereafter, I was taken with the idea that you could buy something... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
infrastructure in the world. What are the implications for their ability to leapfrog content and technical developments in this sector in the United States? Internet development in China. Online marketing and consumer behavior in South... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
fixing the problems? And maybe my answer would have been different 15, 20 years ago, but I think increasingly I believe that the answer is no. There is a groundswell of great people who are working to solve our fundamental problems, and delaying the I'll do something... View Details