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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
Warnock, cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Adobe Systems, and Alan Taffel, vice president for marketing and sales at UUNET Technologies, discussed some of the most sweeping implications of today's information technology at a plenary session...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust...
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- 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 general decline in View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era
management's focus extends beyond strategy, structure, and systems to purpose, processes, and people. All of the restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and delayering that has occurred during the last decade, Bartlett attests, is the...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
hearing. And suddenly, there he was — a Jew from a Jewish firm of no great stature on Wall Street — extending as valuable an invitation as a business executive could have: to be one of the corporate executives who would meet with the top...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a...
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- 16 Mar 2018
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Giving Back to Help The Next Generation
where she is the company’s new-business sales manager. In gratitude for the generosity extended to her, Sergio established the Jennifer D. Kelm (MBA 2010) Fellowship on the occasion of her 5th Reunion to...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom conglomerates were then the business model of choice. View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory...
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Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari I found myself frequently searching Google for things I read about in the book, which extended the time it took to read it, but I always view this as a great sign. Among the highlights for me: We all share...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
among the many essential ingredients for success in a business where product life cycles are measured in months and where "new-and-improved" is a mantra. Dubbed by Fortune magazine last year as one of the most powerful businesswomen in...
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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
soil-depleting cycle of pesticides and fertilization. Sacred Seed started with a simple question one of Keen's mentors asked him over 15 years ago: "What are you doing to protect your corn?" But another part of the story is more personal,...
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
student, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. The first sixteen years of Martín Curiel’s life followed the cycles of the harvest. As migrant farmworkers, his parents moved Curiel and his two sisters from Mexico to the United States, where...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
the much-neglected soil back to life through rotational grazing. “Nutrients cycle from the grass through our cows and sheep, and wind up back in the soil,” explains Reade. The global market for organic food and drink increased to $23...
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- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by diverting people from the penal...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
giving—whether your attention or your money. Once ready to nudge yourself toward better, the book trains your eye on how to extend what you’ve learned and positively influence others. Melding philosophy and psychology as never before,...
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- 28 Sep 2015
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Rockin’ for a Cause
stake in quality education and want to invest in the district overall.” Motivated Dads Since their first appearance on PiE’s behalf—a two-hour event where the band had to cycle through their nine-song repertoire multiple times—the...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed
lever you have for leading organizations, arguably the more vocal one. Whatever strategy has not made clear to your extended team, culture will unapologetically fill the void. Culture establishes the rules of engagement after leadership...
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Jen McFarland Flint