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Mark Cicirelli
When I was a kid I blew the fuse in my parents' house—a lot. I had turned the basement into my "laboratory," where I spent far too many late nights poring through science books, building gadgets, and using a lot of electricity.... View Details
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Anusha Rajadorai
made me. Now it’s my turn to help you believe. You can be more than you ever imagined, you can have the Midas touch. Together we will turn anything you believe into gold. View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm,... View Details
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million How Uber, Etsy, and Airbnb climbed from one thousand customers to one million. Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful Research at Harvard Business School takes a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
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Faculty Research Online
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System? Corporations have turned tax obligations into profit centers, bringing into question the whole rationale for business taxes. Associate Professor Mihir Desai discusses problems with the modern... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Wizard to the Rescue
Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Road Work
sales below pre-COVID levels, a figure that tracks closely with figures represented by small-business owners overall; yet only one in five of Camino’s members has received some form of government relief. “Credit models have been turned... View Details
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended... View Details
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Ann S. Moore
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People, View Details
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Rashveena Rajaram Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Turning Africa’s Biggest Challenges into Global Business Opportunities: Summer Fellow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Too Cool for School
content provider, including large universities. Khan quit his finance job in 2009 and turned his full attention to his online, not-for-profit endeavor, Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org). The academy focuses on K–12 learning with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
into reading and exploring.” So perhaps it’s not surprising that, along with partner and co-CEO Michelle Crames (MBA ’03), Norton founded an LA-based company called Lean Forward Media, licensed the rights to the Choose series, and is now View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the brand of the country’s largest magazine publisher
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People, View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
play for, and which coach would you hire to turn around your basketball program if you were a college president? The contrast between the two coaches sparked a broad discussion of leadership. “I’d play for both,” one panelist said, while... View Details
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John Oxtoby
small-business owners to Fortune 500 CEOs to make sure their ideas and voices were heard." Turning best policy ideas into reality Although John had “an amazing experience in government,” he wanted to “complement my public-sector work... View Details
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Vysh Ravikumaran
My dad had escaped a terrorist attack at the Colombo Airport that night. I couldn’t help but think how I would have felt if things turned out differently. I was an adamant nine-year-old who refused to say goodbye to him before his shift –... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not
response on a weekly basis. Remento’s AI technology turns those recordings into stories that can be published as a book. The Why: Greene treasures the home movies he has of his father, who died when Greene was 10 years old. When Greene’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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Secrets Behind a VC Success Story
Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) never intended to make a career of venture capital. But he turned out to be pretty good at picking winners and helped propel Accel Partners into the ranks of the top VC firms. more Case-Method Godfather Chris... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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King of his castle
After a foray working in the modern worlds of consulting and wireless technology, George Appling (MBA/MPA 1998) fulfilled a promise he'd made to himself. "Once I hit 40, I wanted to make sure I was spending my time on something I loved." As a result, he View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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The Next Chapter
OLSON: After publishing, turning over a new leaf. Former Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson (MBA ’76) has donned a new hat and will begin teaching corporate strategy at HBS next month. Olson is no stranger to Harvard, having... View Details