About Zappos Founded in 1999 as an online shoe retailer, Zappos.com has grown to dominate its field through an obsessive, customer-centric philosophy combined with organizational and technological flexibility. Zappos’s offerings consist of a wide selections of shoes and clothing that customers purchase online and can expect to receive in as little as two days. The [...]
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The Goal: Takeaways & Lessons
Just finished reading Goldratt’s The Goal. Here are the mains points that I got out of it. Business is Science Running a business isn’t guesswork, nor is it black magic or tradition-derived dogma. Running a successful business, whether manufacturing or service or non-profit, depends on crafting a system around continual improvement. There is no one [...]
MSB Entrepreneurship Vision Competition
Last semester, the MSB hosted its Entrepreneurship Vision Competition with the goal of prompting students to propose changes within the MSB that would serve to encourage entrepreneurship. Participants pitched their ideas in front of a panel of MSB professors and were evaluated based on feasibility, affordability, uniqueness, learning, and impact. Overall, the MSB lacks any [...]
The MSB Curve & Institutional Mediocrity
Two quotations are from MSB professors, made during the last finals period: “In general, the field reports and presentations were very strong. The range of the scores was from 17-20 and the mean was 18.8.” “I have good news and bad news. The good news is that most students did pretty well on the final exam. [...]
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