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23 Oct 2024
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Running Man

There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photos by Alison Yin

01 Oct 1999
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Running on empty

Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

Jim Langford waits for no squirrel. On a clear January morning in Atlanta, driving with considerable speed and purpose, he barrels up the hill of the Carter Center campus in a 2012 Toyota Camry. He’s talking about poetry, which he writes and publishes in rare moments... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who was unsuccessfully pressing the group to include... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

13 Oct 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert Peterson, who told him about his idea for a competition called... View Details

26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers

event,” she shares. “The students are learning so much and so quickly about running what amounts to a mini-business every year. On top of that, the excitement of the conference is driven by people talking about innovations in the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

06 Oct 2019
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She’ll Be Running Up the Mountain When She Runs

December 2009 (Revised July 2013)
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Iris Running Crane: December 2009

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused mid-market fund; and the third with a one-time top-tier fund that is trying... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Compensation and Benefits; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry

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January 2013 (Revised March 2017)
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CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot?

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden

In July 2012, the cofounders of CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley startup that protects websites and accelerates their traffic, are considering the implications of five employees' resignations over the prior three months. Was this natural attrition for a high-tech venture... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; California

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24 Apr 2014
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Running faster to compete

his own wells to cool machinery. “The way you compete is to run faster, so that’s what we’re doing,” Knott said. (Published April 2014; updated August 2018) View Details

30 Jan 2013
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Why Running a Family Doesn't Help You Run a Business

01 Feb 1998
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Running Up the Score

modest and unassuming, is speaking, as he often does to young people, about the virtues of hard work, perseverance, and other old-fashioned values. When the Denver Broncos All-Pro running back finishes his talk, it's time to turn the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

June 2014
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CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot?

By: Thomas Eisenmann

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Running a Healthy Company

Oct 03 2018
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Charles River Scenic Running Map

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Huber returned to the company after graduation. He was running the commercial activities at the company's locomotive division when, in 1995, GM's vice chairman Harry Pearce asked him to head up a new initiative called Project Beacon. The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto