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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
being only one of three retailers to outperform Wal-Mart in both revenue and profit growth in that time. Life in a Dollar General store paints a vivid picture of the roots and historical focus of the company. Opportunistic buying has...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Organizations." Coote noted that trends such as intense competition, faster cycle times, slimmer margins, and new business models have forced widespread company restructurings - changes that corporate information technology (IT) View Details
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
multiuse retail/coworking/residential spaces. Marietta also tirelessly coaches local business owners and entrepreneurs, advising the owner of a crafts store in downtown Harlan on payroll management one day and helping a local high school...
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- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
contention in the family because my brother, Chuck, being one year younger, kept getting left out of these things. He never had a job. Well, later on, he would sack at the grocery store with me. I still have out here, a nice set of...
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- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
brother-in-law who runs a clothing store downtown or whatever. I really respect that kind of person. But it was a really short list. People who are not in business, they don't read about business. They don't have those same kinds of...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
the five tenets of the mission at the Smithsonian's NMNH is to be a catalyst for the use of object-based science education in the K-12 school system. With a large education department that relies on close to four hundred volunteer...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
don’t lend money to pay taxes. And they did that. Then we worked out an arrangement with the county where they could pay it over a five-year period. And so they did that. Hennepin County spent $6 million and bought a piece of land across the street. They did all the...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
yes, Watson is a big deal. Perhaps the best place to start to understand it all is in 2007, in the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. There, a team of...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
leading apparel maker Liz Claiborne Inc. (LC) were coming off a sixteen-year high that had begun to wane in 1992. A combination of factors — the national recession, weak spending on women's apparel, increased competition, department View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Wellesley friend who was Nelson Doubleday's secretary suggested I talk to him, I was open to the idea, and he offered me a job in the research department for the same salary. It was appealing to work in a company that was trying to hire...
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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
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
entering. It was just as people were starting to empty the stores in San Francisco, we were realizing something was going to change. And what we realized was that 1.8 billion students were suddenly at home because their schools had to...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
found was, if I wanted to do jobs-to-be-done-focused research, well, first of all, I have to go to the market research department. The market research department may, in fact, understand the framework, but they don't really have the...
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shells) and advising a mayor as well as local entrepreneurs /NPOs. In Tokyo, students will learn about Japanese culture by visiting a Shinto shrine and a Buddhist temple, Akihabara (electronics center and home of geeky cafes), edgy fashion town of Harajuku and Shibuya,...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
receive a portion for their local medical personnel. Following that initial publicity, requests came in from organizations including the Cleveland Clinic, the City of Boston, rural police departments in Ohio, and nursing homes housing...
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