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- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the vote in...
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- Portrait Project
Chao Zeng
in life – giant obstacles, severe competitions, various distractions, people who want to take advantage of me, and people who truly need my help. Life is a chaotic, crowded train. But l am determined to do whatever it takes to fulfill my...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
signing a bill granting paid parental leave to city employees, he sported a Christmas sweater with the name of heavy metal band Pantera knit into the pattern. Sometimes, when introducing a heavy metal icon to a crowd of 20,000 fans, he’s...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
high ratings who faced little competition tended to make tweaks to their original design, rather than radical changes. At the other end of the spectrum, when competition became crowded with many other high-quality contenders, these same...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
television markets but will hold their games in intimate, spectator-friendly venues. This strategy should produce the revenues and crowds (per-game target: 2,500 fans) to meet initial break-even projections. The league will draw on a fan...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
woman’s stomach. The first beam was put in place February 13, and the topping-off ceremony was held April 22 before an enthusiastic crowd that included Dean Kim B. Clark, faculty, staff, and students. The next phase of the project will...
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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition
Social Enterprise Track Presented by the Social Enterprise Initiative, this track is f or new ventures that create pattern-breaking social change. How to Register & Key Dates Eligibility $ 75,000 Grand Prize $ 25,000 Runner-Up Prize $ 5,000 View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Jeong-han Kang, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Administrative Science Quarterly (forthcoming). Abstract This article examines how competitive crowding affects the conduct of actors in a tournament. We develop three claims: (i) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
It was a Friday afternoon on a weekend when no "WAC" (Written Analysis of Cases) was due in the deposit slot by midnight Saturday, so a number of us were preparing to go skiing. I was with sectionmate Fred Marshall, when we noticed a small View Details
- Portrait Project
Marla Metz
going on with me. Amidst a crowd of friends and strangers, smiles and stares, I now remind myself – every day – that pain and struggle can be found in places where they are least expected. We won’t ever know unless we become still enough...
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- 07 Nov 2018
- News
The Results Are (Mostly) In
Massachusetts Third Congressional District after winning a primary contest against a crowded field of nine other Democratic candidates. A former Marine and member of the Texas House of Representatives and State Senate, Van Taylor (MBA...
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- 01 Nov 2018
- News
A Passion for Organization
jump to try and help Houston, and I decided I would wait till the crowds have died down and go when others may not be going and helping. I partnered with a nonprofit that was working to help gut these homes, and clean them out, and get...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
as the Taliban-influenced south, operating under a firm policy of cultural sensitivity and ethical transparency in a country ranked as one of the most corrupt in the world. When Roshan launched, police were called in to control the crowds...
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- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
$5,000 for the crowd favorite—for start-up costs. During the 25th NVC celebration, startup SurgiBox took home the alumni NVC crowd favorite prize. This year's event will be fully virtual. According to Rock...
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Margie Kelley
- Portrait Project
Chad Hufsey
I never dreamed possible. Instead, when the Crimson ran onto the field in front of a raucous crowd that fall, I was standing on the sidelines. I was afraid that I wasn't good enough. Afraid I couldn't handle the academics. Afraid to take...
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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
is attracting are studying digital, says Associate Professor Karim R. Lakhani, a member of D/I'sw faculty who also serves as principal investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science....
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
venture capital. Two years later, she sold the firm, Rubric, Inc., for $366 million. Securing the venture-capital investment was a major challenge, she told a capacity crowd gathered for the fourteenth annual Dynamic Women in Business...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea that this was coming from places...
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Business Track | New Venture Competition
Business Track Presented by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, this track is for new ventures whose economic returns drive substantial market impact. How to Register & Key Dates Eligibility $ 75,000 Grand Prize $ 25,000 Runner-Up Prize $ 5,000 View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
his mission ends in May. The GMP program, was “the best commander training I had,” he told the assembled crowd from some 220 miles above the Earth. Behind Virts, the sun reflected off the space station’s solar arrays, visible through two...
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