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- 15 Jun 2021
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Zone Defense
be—skeptical of his younger brother,” Brandon says, laughing. It’s easy to laugh: Today, the brothers are cofounders of Shield AI, a rapidly growing artificial intelligence company based in San Diego, with offices in Washington, DC, and...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons
Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is used by oil companies...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,...
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- 08 May 2014
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The Sky's the Limit
ago at a former company. "I was struggling with a boss. I was the number-one salesperson, and very unhappy with my rating," Eaton says. "She coached me, encouraged me to find a mentor within the company to help navigate this in an...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!
(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter 8 “The View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
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How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
out to the employee to discuss her actions. All told, Forbes notes that Shoen averages about three calls a day, but can field dozens in the span of a few hours. Amerco is a family company—started by Shoen’s father—and the piece details the family infighting that...
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- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
delivering Chinese food, and teaching Muay Thai classes. He maintained a spreadsheet of daily expenses, trying to beat his usual average of $4 a day with tactics that included avoiding public transportation by running or walking to get...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
clear that if my family was going to stay in manufacturing, we would have to become globally competitive.” The Wisconsin businesses were sold in 2002, and a new company with a new strategy, Chirch Global Manufacturing (CGM), was born....
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- 31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
hundred cities. Our Robins would use free Uber rides to help the senior citizens with essentials like groceries and medicines throughout the lockdown.” The partnership with Uber has grown over the past two years, and the company has since...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Speaking for the Airlines
role in assembling the rescue package and the financial and operating data required to persuade Congress and the Bush administration to help the carriers." "Airline service is the backbone of our economy," Mullin told the House View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
productivity has multiplied four- or fivefold in the last fifteen years,” beams Khoo Teng Chye (110th AMP), group president of PSA. “Our company is a world leader in applying technology to port management and fully automating operations.”...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
Boston-based company that collects cord blood anywhere in the country and transports it to the University of Cincinnati Medical School, where it is frozen and stored. The cord-blood cells can then be used...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.
Island native Jim McNerney (MBA ’75). Later, his résumé would include stints at blue-chip companies like Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Co., and General Electric, where he led various divisions of the multinational giant (including GE...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor driving out coal. The View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
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Untapped Potential
water entrepreneurship ecosystem is lagging behind other sectors that are on focused climate and sustainability—led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company invests exclusively in entrepreneurs building technologies...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
travel and work. “The JRC found businesses to partner with, and I reached out to CEOs I knew at companies such as Uniqlo (Fast Retailing), Lawson, Yamato Transport, and a hospital chain,” Takeuchi notes. “No...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds
one-year stint ended, Tierney joined the corporate finance division of White, Weld & Co. in New York and settled with his wife and three children in Connecticut. At White Weld, he developed a department that focused on transportation...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2004
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Massport, Back on Course
Craig P. Coy, 54, spent twenty years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer and helicopter pilot. He served as a White House Fellow and counterterrorism adviser during the Reagan administration. Prior to Massport, Coy was president and CEO of a Massachusetts View Details