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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Ballroom dancing, painting Recommended Reading Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman "Written by a humanist/scientist, this is a compelling collection of fables focusing on various conceptions of time, as seen through the imagined dreams...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
design the company’s real value proposition? The Answers: Why not have a set of silhouettes with customizable features at a range of price points? With X bod- ices and Y skirts and Z trims, the bride now has a large number of permutations, but the View Details
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April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Lassiter, whose research focuses on developing carbon-neutral energy supplies, efforts to produce algal crude cheaply and efficiently have met with nothing but failure. The reason: basic biology. One can easily persuade algae to produce...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
to its current home in Durham, North Carolina, in 1993 and focused exclusively on personal care; by 1998, its product line included more than 100 items and annual sales exceeded $8 million. In 2003, Quimby (who had bought out Shavitz ten...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
history of women in business to give her audience some perspective on the transformational effects of economic independence. Among the first places U.S. women worked outside the home were textile factories in Massachusetts, she noted. The...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
major developments: Ericsson opened its first 5G-enabled smart factory in the United States, Apple unveiled its first 5G-enabled phone, and carriers like AT&T and Verizon have been preparing their customers for major transition. So has...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved...
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Deborah Blagg
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
friends, and the first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. Still, given American wages, survival meant minimizing hand work. Since imported glass was typically blown, the domestic industry focused on pressed glass despite the...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devised to facilitate factory work in the last century. The term “artful making” was inspired by the collaborative successes that creative artists regularly achieve without plotting a detailed set of objectives in advance. The book...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
dissertation focused on organizational mutiny. “Mutiny happens, but it’s hard to study,” says Merryman, noting that her interest in the topic was sparked by the 2006 resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers in the wake of a...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
NIH for clinical testing. The company had moved from concept to clinical-trial-ready in a record-breaking 42 days. Moderna is just one of scores of research teams worldwide currently shepherding vaccine candidates through development and testing with unprecedented...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
it to people who previously had no understanding of what we did. The experience made me much more focused on our vision and the incredible importance of its communication.” Vera Makarov (MBA 2010) Co-CEO/COO of Apli, 2017 Alumni Track...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
firm whether a vessel carrying vital goods has left port or show an insurance company the damage a tornado has left in its wake. Customers access the BlackSky constellation through an online portal that allows them to image locations around the world—a port in...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My sense is, the IRA will push us over the edge here in the US, and we will enter an...
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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments....
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between the US and Egyptian governments...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour...
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Deborah Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across...
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