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Harman Kochar
planned. Because if it was, my family would not have been forced to move from (what eventually became) Pakistan to India on a moment's notice, leaving everything behind. Nor could I have planned meeting my...
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- 01 Apr 2020
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How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
needed for work and family life so he could prioritize what mattered most to him. With that in mind, he has worked hard to develop a team he can trust, planned business growth around his View Details
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Melanie Harris
lesson of the family (by blood and by choice, ancestral and contemporary) that has formed me, nurtured me, and let me go. It is confidence, health, security, passion. The promise of love empowers me to change the game and play by my own...
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- 17 Apr 2014
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Striking a Balance
Alvin J. Silk The struggle to balance career and family was all too familiar to the late Diane Doerge Wilson, whose memory is being honored with an HBS professorship funded by a gift from her husband, Alvin J. Silk. A senior consultant at...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Knudsen Cowles: building for the future at the family vineyard in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (photo by Hilary Bobel Cronon) When they inherited the family vineyard a decade ago, Page Knudsen Cowles (MBA...
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- 27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) Norm Liu (MBA 1982) (photo by Susan Young) DONOR: Norman C.T. Liu (MBA 1982) Fellowship; N.C.T. Liu Family Fellowship In explaining what prompted him to establish fellowships at HBS, Norm Liu...
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Valerie Bockstette
I plan to build trampolines. Remember jumping on one as a kid - the more you jumped, the more support you got - and like magic - you rose higher and higher, as though you could bounce forever? I grew up on such a trampoline. No, my View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Bold Idea Takes Off
when she won the Social Enterprise Pitch for Change business plan competition for Global Citizen Year (GCY), a nonprofit she envisioned to provide American teens with a “bridge year” between high school and college to work abroad. Ready...
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Brent Brown
Brent (HBS '02) has experience in private equity/venture capital, investment banking, and real estate, consumer products and digital media industries and currently serves on the boards of numerous private companies. Work Experience: US Army, Goldman Sachs, Taurus...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Turning Point: In Good Company
sleep, and my family didn’t have the medical vocabulary then to understand why I was convinced that meeting future global CEOs at HBS would help me change the world—just one amongst many other grandiose View Details
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Ameel Somani
Through his own family history, Ameel Somani has witnessed the complete entrepreneurial cycle from ambition to success, from loss to renewal. "My grandfather moved to East Africa when he was twelve and built Tanzania's largest chain...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
distinguishing thing about these kids was their attitude and their habits — they were proactive and passionate. Their goal was not to ace the SATs but to succeed in life. More specifically, in my sample of 160 students with perfect scores, 60 percent were male, more...
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Dave Vitello
different perspectives that take us out of our comfort zones.” With seven years of experience as an accountant at Deloitte, and a family in tow, Dave says, “I’m a little older than the average HBS student in age but a lot older in stage....
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- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
me, this meant not doing as much extracurricular activities as many other students—and being very selective about what I did do (I was one of the writers for the ‘HBS Show’ in my second year and worked on a business plan for a nonprofit)....
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- 07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
well. Morrell: Part of your upcoming plans include a return to the States. What are you looking forward to about your return to the States? And similarly, what are you dreading? Tapon: I'm looking forward to consistent utilities. In other...
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Kevin S. Rollag
Kevin Rollag came with his family from Panama to the United States when he was fourteen. Although his Tacoma, Washington community respected education, the prevailing assumption, Kevin says, "is that smart people become...
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Hannah Vazzana
Smile. I planned my wedding from the time I was three years old. That's 26 years of expectations. Was I disappointed that day after years of fantasies built upon one another? You might imagine so, but that day, videotaped only in my head,...
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
Bajaj differentiates between the characteristics of family and professional managers. Which would better serve South Asian business in the future? South Asia has seen both highly successful cases of succession View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American...
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- 12 Jul 2004
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Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
procedures. Nondiscriminatory Insurance Underwriting. Two anomalies mar the pricing of health plans. First, people who are included in large risk pools (such as those who work for big companies) can get a reasonably priced health plan...
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