Perishability - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jun 2020
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How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them

11 Sep 2008
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9/11 victims recalled as names, not numbers

01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

guide Rob Hall, who would perish on Everest two years later) to summit Everest that day. His triumph followed a two-mile vertical ascent from a final staging camp, a climb begun shortly after midnight in below-zero temperatures and... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

01 Mar 2009
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Deep Discovery

The British luxury liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine on its New York-to-Liverpool run in 1915. The ship sank in 300 feet of water off the coast of Ireland; 1,198 (including 128 Americans) of 1,959 passengers and crew View Details

Keywords: Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2003
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Lessons from Everest

scores of hopeful climbers were trying to duplicate their feat, Assistant Professor Michael Roberto discussed his research into the tragic Everest events of 1996. In May of that year, eight individuals perished in a single day while... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2025
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Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)

In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)

soul of which was a song inspired by the story of a girl who perished in the earthquake in Haiti. Seeing how the music affected my whole family, it revealed to me how important it is for music to be a language everyone speaks. So when I... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Services

22 Jul 2014
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Hungry for Change

first to handle perishable goods in supermarkets that are approaching their expiration dates, and now to work even further upstream with growers," explains Zeaske, who never suspected how much his first-year TOM course would come in... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977

to 9/11/01. More than three thousand people from eighty countries perish on a single day in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. On the heels of that horrific tragedy, this year's subsequent business headlines have been dominated... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

01 Mar 2010
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Eric Schiffer

try some Arizona Iced Tea: “Well, it looks safe. I’ll buy it.” Then they buy some bananas. Pretty soon, they’re open to trying everything. Our sales are about 50 percent food and beverage, with perishables making up close to 20 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

predicted, success and failure. Not an onion, certainly. Maybe an avocado: a fruit with a skin that seems tough but still allows for easy bruising by outside forces, with a certain amount of highly perishable reward below—depending on... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

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