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- 01 Sep 2004
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Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
returning home to work in the family bank and, ultimately, found his own — Grand Bank in Grand Rapid. Stoddard sold Grand Bank in 2002, and he has since launched Grand Angels, an investment group aiming to help local entrepreneurs. After...
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Finance
- 01 Sep 2008
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No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
podium, Time Inc. chairman and CEO Ann S. Moore (MBA ’78) challenged the Class of 2008 to make a difference while maintaining balance in their lives. “I’m sorry my generation didn’t advance civilization further for you and left View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
essentially outsourced and privatized. “In some eerie way, it looks like we are going back to the future,” he concluded. “If you want to buy a home today, you better have great...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Spago-devotee Johnny Carson take stacks of pizzas home to freeze, Puck decided to branch out and sell his frozen pizzas to the grocery-buying public. Puck—the man and the brand—was suddenly everywhere. The 1990s brought still more...
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Christine Speer Lejeune
- 13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
as the protagonist? What were you valuing at the time? Where were your blind spots? And really being clinical about it helps process these past experiences, and helps you learn...
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- 07 Dec 2015
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Easing the Costs of Adoption
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned home from Russia in 1998 with their adopted daughter, Christina, they brought with them a desire to make the process easier for other families. They created Pathways for Little...
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- 29 Nov 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk
address the other two Ws–work and wisdom–and an evolving vision of alumni engagement. By raising your hand as a volunteer, you are strengthening the HBS brand by embodying the pay-it-forward spirit—whether to current and future students...
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Das Narayandas
- 02 Sep 2015
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Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
If you had asked Calvin Young (MBA 2015) what he’d be doing after his graduation from HBS, he wouldn’t have answered “politics.” But earlier this month, the mechanical engineer and newly minted MBA announced his candidacy for mayor of...
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- 24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
newsletter he’d used in Indianapolis. The idea sounded risky, so Hicks consulted her conservative grandfather. “‘What’s the difference between looking for a job when you are 22 and when you are 23?’ he...
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Susan Young
- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
giving the mayor partial control of the city's schools was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge. Luckily, Tuck was unfazed. "The schools still needed to improve, right?" Tuck says by phone. "So you take a blow, get up the next...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Oct 2002
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Class Notes Extra
After building a home with the help of “a spreadsheet and a telephone,” he wrote a book. Kate Steichen “Life is like sailing–you rarely go in a straight line.” One of the joys of reading the Bulletin's Class Notes is that View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
“Parent” is the job title that Tom Fischgrund (MBA ’80) feels most at home with. He is also the author and editor of several books and president of Management Recruiters of Atlanta Perimeter Center. The father of three children,...
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- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
Charlotte. "What I loved about Habitat then, and still love now, is that it's a tangible demonstration of how I believe God calls us to work in the world," he says. "Show up with an open heart and willing hands. You don't have to have the...
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- 13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
consumers make better purchasing decisions in home durable goods. The long-term vision is to be the go-to destination for any purchasing decision.” What have you enjoyed most about founding and running the...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
It’s strange to think about (with Boston temps stuck below freezing) but this time last year I was in Monterrey, Mexico, wrapping up a 10-day Immersion Experience Program (IXP) with 48 HBS students. (You can read about that trip, and the program, here.) I’m staying...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Time to Trek
Indian and to do business in India,” says Wimmer. “I don’t think you can be a successful business leader and not have some perspective on what is happening in the rest of the world.” The 100-person group toured companies such as Reliance...
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- 12 Sep 2019
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Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
disconnected from it. Okay, hope you enjoy the show. READ MORE Cedric Bobo: Cedric Bobo MBA Class of 2004. I do after school drop off. I always find .. I have three sons. Whenever I drop them off, having not been raised with a dad in the...
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- 11 May 2011
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In a Good Place
Gehrke (MBA ’73) presides over this weekly happening or, as she describes it, this “mini-laboratory for budding entrepreneurs.” The businesses in question aren’t of a high-tech nature, however: GreenFlea is an indoor-outdoor market that is View Details