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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
that it hoped would revolutionize footwear for trail runners and so-called sky runners who prefer high elevations. Instead of a sole that is hard on the bottom and soft in the middle, Timberland’s in-house “Invention Factory” designed one...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
while others turned them in the direction of travel. The discovery of such unspoken preferences among consumers led the company to make important changes in the development of its navigational system. The...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5...
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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re not a View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Dubbed by Fortune as one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, Margie Yang is proud to be part of an ever-growing number of Asian-born female executives and entrepreneurs. But she prefers to put the spotlight on The Esquel...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
made her culture deck public, Netflix dropped a complete season of House of Cards and forever changed the way the world consumed content. McCord designed Netflix’s culture to attract high-performing creative leaders who thrive in work...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
have found—millennials prefer practicing yoga to hip hop music. Consumers will be drawn to, and pay for, those distinctions. The same could be said for clients at Bob Vaccaro’s Yoga by Donation, even with...
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on consumer Internet, mobile...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
consumers shop around, gets him visibly agitated. "Practically speaking, we can't even move an MRI from one guy to the next, and both have electronic medical records—are you kidding me?" (His reputation precedes him: "I've been very, very...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
receive a considerable amount of my information and photos via e-mail from classmates, usually soon after a new Bulletin comes out, and people see my e-mail address," reports 1993 Section E cocorrespondent Julia Leung Chin. Many of the older class correspondents View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their relationship with this sprawling...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
call, Masha knew he would be returning home. Ndidi and Mezuo Nwuneli Cofounders, AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd. In a country where 90 percent of processed food comes from imported ingredients, AACE sources its spices from local growers, reducing costs to...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
individual," explains Bhide. "Important but obvious background information, which might otherwise consume over one-half of class time, is presented within a matter of five or ten minutes. This creates an opportunity to explore more basic...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Business Review to Levitt, who posted his preference for the active voice, vigorous verbs, and shorter sentences in the staff bathrooms. “Someone said it was bizarre,” Levitt told USA Today. “Chacun à son goût.”; Levitt deployed that...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
day. I spent a lot of time at the library because writing is so solitary and as an extrovert, the extended alone time was always hard for me. I prefer to be around other quietly working people than to write solo!” —Samantha Ettus (MBA...
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