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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
lines every week. Based in the United Kingdom, ASOS shipped products to 240 countries and territories, and international sales represented more than 50% of total revenues. But when new CEO Nick Beighton took...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
caused by hidden munitions on board, may have been the reason why the passenger ship sank in a deadly eighteen minutes, causing 1,198 deaths. As odd as it may sound, he also happens to hold title to the wreck, having purchased it for $1...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
global auto manufacturer who, by introducing our data analytics program, identified several inefficiencies in their production line in one factory that allowed them to ship an additional 700 cars a week....
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
View, California-based medical device company had been cash flow positive for seven consecutive quarters with annual revenues over $70 million. Since 2007, it had shipped well over 1.5 million of its vascular closure device (VCD), the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
by the enormous improvements going on in other countries. It used to be that the wages of US workers rose in line with domestic productivity, but the two became decoupled. Some attribute that to declining unionization. That may be part of...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a...
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Art Nature Business
Pond in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. Established by Frederic Tudor in Boston in 1806, prior to the age of refrigeration, the Tudor Ice Company transported ice by rail and ship from freshwater ponds to locations around the world,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the economist’s normal pastimes of rummaging through data sets, crunching numbers, and testing theories. But one day, he found himself hung up on the opening line of a teaching case: DuPont was considering entering the titanium dioxide...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
day. He finally found one in “Djibouti? Or Jordan?” — he can no longer remember — and had it shipped to him. This mishmash of days and roles was Kim’s job as CHAI’s deputy country director in Ethiopia, where he managed the daily...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
more focus and intention to the organization’s future state. Over a two-hour strategy session with the McKinsey team and her regional directors in August, McKenna takes notes in a Moleskine notebook. (She prefers the ones lined with graph...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
cargo growth from the bigger ships arriving via an expanded Panama Canal and the development of downtown neighborhoods that had been gridlocked and polluted by truck traffic from the port. Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz included the tunnel...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
some tips on surviving.” Among the lessons she learned that helped her and her 103-year-old mother cope: you must fight the despair by exercising your mind, keep your emotions in check by taking the long view, and stay connected to others. “The through View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
The nonprofit lines up college-credit-earning healthcare jobs for high school graduates from underserved communities. The tuition-free program’s on-ramps to good jobs are the product of partnerships between employers, high schools,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
What are the metrics we should be using? Kerr: One of the sad ironies about our data-development process is that we know much more about the things that get shipped in cargo boats around the world than we know about the knowledge workers...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
systems? And so that's something we've done to build that culture.Fuller: The way you describe it, it seems it's a very integrated program, that there's a clear line of sight across processes, which in many complex organizations you...
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