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10 Jul 2024
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Next Level

Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

18 Sep 2019
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Level Up

There was a very specific moment when the crisis underway in the sports industry became clear to Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014). It was August 4, 2015, when Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in the company’s quarterly earnings call that its subsidiary ESPN had sustained “some... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

18 Aug 2015
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Finding a level playing field

22 Sep 2015
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Working on the Local Level

solution-oriented, solution-minded. If you see yourself as a problem solver or a policy entrepreneur and you want to do the work that helps people, being at the local level right now affords you great opportunity to have real impact.”... View Details

01 Aug 2011
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Welcome to the Next Level

28 May 2014
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Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners

has been an inequity in terms of preparing for college. By working with us to create not just a free tool—that’s ‘hey, if you can’t afford the fancy stuff, here’s the free one’-- but making the best thing that also happens to be free, I think we have a good shot at... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Level of campus sexual violence largely unchanged, survey says

03 Apr 2018
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Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level

Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on locations that make solid... View Details

02 Feb 2017
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Growing and Competing at the Local Level

Buckley Brinkman (MBA 1986) is executive director/CEO of the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, which provides consulting services and programs to help manufacturers grow their businesses and become more profitable. In this video interview, he talks... View Details