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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates
exceptional leadership and service to the HBS community. Jill S. Schaeffer and Philip L. Terry were honored for cochairing this year's fifth annual HBS Cyberposium, a student-organized high-tech and new media conference. Held last...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
"During the Gold Rush," EMC Corporation's Michael C. Ruettgers (MBA '67) reminded a Burden Hall audience last September, "a lot of infrastructure people got rich, along with a handful of gold panners." That's why, amid the glitz and glory of the View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
Driving Innovation
Stewart: Helping brands navigate the complexities of today’s media. Photo courtesy Bonita Stewart What can a high-flying, high-tech giant learn about marketing from an industry that is about as nuts-and-bolts as you can get? Plenty, if...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
Ehrenberg decided at an early age that she wanted to be a doctor. “I was very concerned about sick people,” she says, “and I thought medicine was the greatest job in the world.” In 1997, she graduated from medical school in Munich and started specializing in...
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- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
organization, and think strategically,” says Spreng. “It benefited me tremendously throughout my career.” He went on to a 40-year career in high-tech manufacturing and marketing, including serving as a group general manager of...
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Carol Lauson
then into more corporate development. She also was involved in a mergers-and-acquisition project with lead responsibilities for United Agri Products and Trimble Navigation, a high-tech company that created location-based technologies...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
you recommend as preparation for a career in venture capital? Doerr: The best preparation is operating experience in a well-managed, high-growth, high-tech company. Without that it's hard to support great entrepreneurs and teams. HBSB:...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
worked tirelessly on the show, often spending as much time on the production as on their studies. Transforming the staid Burden Auditorium into a theatrical venue has often been half the battle for the show's producers. Marino brought in scaffolding to build light and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
- a staple of the club's schedule that features speakers from the high-tech sector - both welcome graduates from other prominent business schools. "Including alumni beyond HBS gives us a chance to meet new people, to ask questions, and to...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
adds, "was to catch up with my classmates and share once again the spirit of our Section C." William G. Messenger (MBA '88) Drawn to a religious life as an Episcopal minister after launching a successful career in the high-tech industry,...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Reports" section of HBS Working Knowledge at www.workingknowledge.hbs.edu. Technology and Tradition at Cyberposium If attendance at the 2002 Cyberposium is any indication, student interest in the high-tech sector remains intense despite...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
etc.” Several responses questioned whether there was damage to the consumer, often at issue in antitrust. As Shoshanna Zuboff pointed out, in “free” high-tech services, the consumer benefits and resulting satisfaction are highly visible;...
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by James Heskett;
Retail;
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Communications;
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Service
- 27 Jan 2011
- News
The Joys of Cooking
THE JOYS OF COOKING: Bibi Kasrai (MBA '96) has hit an entrepreneurial sweet spot as the Harvard Cookie Girl. After years in high-tech marketing and non-profit fundraising, Bibi Kasrai (MBA ’96) found a way to blend her talent for business...
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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
involvement, said Tufano in a recent in-house HBS seminar on "Providing Financial Services to the Poor: High-Tech and High-Touch." Current public policy clearly supports asset building, said Tufano, but 90 percent of tax-based...
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by Carla Tishler
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
protagonists in cases he admired. To his surprise, “They were all very responsive – most of them wrote back in twenty-four hours.” By the spring, he knew he wanted to eliminate high-tech ventures from his list and focus on B2C...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
FairMarket, the mother of three was taking the summer off to spend time with her family and see "what bubbles up." As to the future, Rudden anticipates heading another high-tech company: "Technology draws a great group of people who want...
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- 11 May 2011
- News
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...
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- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
behavior by entrepreneurs? Noam Wasserman: Splitting equity with your cofounders is a prime example. My data, drawn mostly from high-tech and life-science startups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture's first...
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by Garry Emmons
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
Similarly, buyouts of high-tech firms were supposed to be too risky, yet recent transactions have proved the received wisdom to be false. Private equity is a dynamic industry, at whose heart is the taking of calculated risks based on...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
high-tech company about its two-year-old English-only language mandate. (She uses the pseudonym Frenchco for the company in the case.) She found that all employees whose native language was not English experienced a status loss under the...
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